Recently Launched: Savoy & Siegel

September 10th, 2007

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Llamawerx recently completed a website for Drs. Savoy and Siegel, optometrists located in Jersey City, NJ. The site design focuses on simple, easy to use navigation. According to Doug Griswold, CEO of Llamawerx, “When people visit a website for professional services, they already have a goal in mind. For an optometrist, it’s things like hours, phone number, insurance, etc. So for Savoy and Siegel we wanted to create a pleasing site, but we also wanted to make sure this important information was easily accessible. Visitors don’t always come in the front door – the home page; search engines can drop them off anywhere so we feel it’s important to have the key information everywhere.”

For a look at the new website, visit www.savoyandsiegel.com.

Llamawerx M2M Solutions: OpenAT

August 1st, 2007

Llamawerx has released their latest brochure titled M2M SOLUTIONS: OPENAT. Visit Wireless & Mobility to learn more and download it.

Judy Gerard OpenAT Certified Developer

July 28th, 2007

Judy Gerard, President of Llamawerx in Raleigh, earned her OpenAT Professional Developer Certification from Wavecom . “We’re happy to have Judy complete Wavecom’s training,” said Doug Griswold, CEO of Llamawerx. “We’ve been involved with embedded systems, wireless programming and M2M for many years and this takes us in a new direction.”For more information visit the Wireless & Mobility.

Recently Launched: Triangle East IDS

June 1st, 2007

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On May 21st, 2007 Llamawerx launched a redesigned website for the Triangle East Chapter of the Interior Design Society. The new layout features a crisp black look punctuated with colorful elements. A key goal was to simplify the navigation and “lead” the visitor where they want to go. “I’m a big fan of navigation that speaks directly to the visitor,” said Doug Griswold. “I’m looking for a designer… Tell me more… I want to join – phrases like those actively lead the visitor along.”

Visit the chapter’s new site to learn more about interior design in the Triangle.

Recently Launched: BuxTools

March 17th, 2007

BuxtoolsBuxTools, maker of the patented C-Clipper, approached Llamawerx to redevelop their website. Through a series of unfortunate events, the site had disappeared from the Internet. “When they contacted us, they had a domain name but nothing else. No way to access it, no passwords, no files… the site was gone.” said Doug Griswold, CEO of Llamawerx. “We made a few calls, did some web forensics and let them know we could salvage most of their previous content and pictures. And, if they wanted to freshen-up their site some, we would be happy to do that too.”

The result is a new website sporting a cleaner layout with less visual clutter. “I tend to think less-is-more,” explains Griswold. The underlying coding is slimmer too. “By hand coding our sites the bloat associated with many web design tools disappears. Using styles, standards and image optimization we routinely trim 50% off of the download size — and a smaller size directly reduces page load times.” Studies have shown web users are extremely fickle when it comes to webpage load delays. Some suggest a 4 second limit. Others more generously allow 15. “It comes down to your visitors’ attention span and how interested they are in your information. We’re not compulsive about it, but we follow a few patterns and if we see opportunities to improve the speed we do it.” explains Griswold.

The results? Within one day of taking the new site live, the first request for information about the C-Clipper came in.

Visit BuxTools’ new site to learn more about BuxTools and C-Clipper.