December 2014—Lots of end-of-year activities are underway as we help our clients close out the year with their marketing materials. Several new website designs are ongoing and still under wraps, but we launched a new site for RM Nephew and Associates earlier this month. A number of design and functionality features  that we put into place for this Boston-based executive search services leader make this site stand out.

First, we designed the site to be responsive. That’s to say the site looks good and works well on devices of all sizes, from smartphones on up through desktop PCs.  Not only does the navigation automatically change to accommodate whatever device you are using, but the content and graphical elements all automatically resize and arrange themselves in the best possible way.

Second, we made the site as interactive as possible to better keep users engaged and to avoid too much text on a page. The Process page is a good example, where visitors click through icons to learn more about the steps RM Nephew goes through to recruit and close a candidate for hire.

RM Nephew specializes in hiring “C-level” executives, including CEOs, CIOs and other senior vice presidents. On the Executive Leadership Roles page we use expansion widgets to open and close descriptions about each role, thereby making the page more interactive and keeping the page depth compact.

March 2014—Early this month we launched a new site for Minding Your Mind, a Philadelphia-based organization dedicated to helping teens and young adults deal with stigma often associated with mental illness. Our goal was to create a bright and attractive site that would appeal to both young people as well as parents, teachers and other adults who want to learn more about helping them. A key part of what MYM does is its educational speaker program, which we wanted to feature prominently on MYM’s homepage.

The new site uses a slideshow rotator to showcase each of MYM’s twenty-something speakers in an informal coffee shop photo. Click through on the photos brings you to a full speaker biography page where an even larger photo is featured. From here, visitors can click on links to book a speaker at their school, check out the latesst news, and find out about upcoming events.

Here at Radar, we appreciate and endorse the good work that Minding Your Mind is doing, and hope to see similar programs implemented elsewhere in the U.S. and beyond.

October 2013—Late summer and early fall were as busy as ever for us, culminating in the design and launch of two new websites over the last few weeks. Our very latest client site, which went live late this month, is for SystemExperts, an IT consulting boutique in the Boston area with a strong emphasis on security services. Meanwhile, in late August, we launched an all-new site for a venture capital client in Boston called WAVE Equity Partners. WAVE is a private equity firm that invests in sustainability technologies that have the potential to transform multiple industrial and/or geographical markets. (As advocates of renewable energy ourselves, Radar Media is particularly fond of the WAVE business model.)

What’s particularly interesting about the SystemExperts site is its responsive design. Once we understood how important it was for the site to look and work equally well across all platforms–including smartphones and tablet devices–we advocated a responsive design approach. This is where the site is able to automatically re-format each page to fit the exact screen dimensions of whatever device and browser is used to access it.

Thanks to modern content management systems like WordPress and Joomla, and the increasing availability of cutting edge responsive design frameworks, responsive design is now easier to achieve than it once was.

March 2013—Under development for three months, our new website for Mirror Image launched this month. Based in Tewksbury, Mass., Mirror Image is a leading provider of highly scalable online services that speed up delivery of rich media like video and music over the Internet.  Its clients are based all over the world.

The new site involved the creation of all new content, design and functionality. Because the content is database-driven, updates made to one part of the site — the news section, for example — is automatically updated in other sections. News headlines appearing on the homepage are automatically refreshed whenever a news story is added to the back end.

The homepage design conveys the global coverage of the company with a stylistic image of the globe encircled with the company’s Dynamic Data Network. Meanwhile, Radar refreshed and modernized the company’s logo to work better on the web and in print media.

July 2012—Just goes to show not all of our clients are biotech, high tech or financial services. In a bit of a departure for Radar, we just launched the new site for Blessid the Movie, an indie film  from local writer and producer Bob Heske. And guess what? We had a lot of fun designing the site and adding all the features you might expect from a cult classic in the making–including a built-in blog, live social media widgets and a way for fans to participate with donations. The site doesn’t give away too much by way of the plot, but it will certainly pique your interst as the days count down to filming this fall in our fair city, Boston.

By the way, Bob’s best known for writing comic-book style horror but this flick is a bit of an interesting departure. Check out the site and see the impressive array of actors and crew talent he’s already lined up.