RK Media is a Chicago based media representation firm that partners with B2B trade publishers, special interest publications and websites selling advertising space. Ryan, who established the company in 2006, did not have a website. So I created one from scratch for him and his wife Melissa, who joined him at the company in 2016. The dramatic photographs on the home page incorporate a parallax effect, which draws the eye to tell their story. A clean, classy, and very effective B2B website.
Project Type: My Portfolio
Descriptions and images of my work.
Connor Advertising
Another brand new website for a brand new client. Mark of Connor Advertising called me and asked me to help him with a website that he had been working on for some time. He almost had it. The layout, pictures, and text were all in website form, but it needed the magic of a content management system to really make it work like Mark wanted.
Take a look at the website. I am very proud of the way this one came together. The use of Google Maps through a WordPress plugin makes the site dynamic in ways that are new and very helpful for this application. I feel it is a very useful tool for small to medium size business owners to market their billboard space online.
Great Lakes Acoustic Music Association
Brand new website for a new client – GLAMA, the Great Lakes Acoustic Music Association, located in Kalamazoo, MI. Very exciting to be working with this non-profit organization. They have been supporting acoustic music in SW Michigan since the late 80’s. The board members are a very nice group of people and very ambitious to create and edit their own website. It has been a fun process and they are wonderful people to work with.
Diary of a Bodybuilder
Brand new website for the upcoming documentary, ‘Diary of a Bodybuilder’, by Director/Actor Joe Quinn. What a fun project this is and Joe is one sweet man. He has been a bodybuilder since he was a boy, and has competed in a number of tournaments over his years, now in his sixties and still competing. The website is a “one page” type of site, which means the major amount of information is on the home page in different sections so visitors only have to scroll, not click, to view the site content. Site features video from the upcoming documentary and it looks like it will be a good one.
Historical Association of South Haven
I have been working with the Historical Association of South Haven, HASH, since 2004. I did their first website, and then updated it to a dynamic, Content Management System (CMS) a few years ago. I just completed a third “responsive” website upgrade for HASH to a mobile/tablet-friendly website using WordPress (CMS), taking advantage of its dynamic content management.
They are a wonderful non-profit organization to be involved with and I am very grateful for the experience. Nice, nice people and so much interesting subject-matter. I learn something new every time I add content to their website.
Bob Long, Director of Photography
I have known Bob since college, we worked together on a film project back then. He did a lot for me and I owed him a favor, so when we reconnected after many years, I was glad to help him with his website. He is a working Director of Photography in the Chicago area and anywhere else a film/video shoot takes him.
Yes, that is Rick Bayless in the little thumbnail picture. Bob is the DP on the excellent series: Mexico, One Plate at a Time with Rick Bayless, who is the owner of a few famous restaurants in Chicago.