Below are a large number of sites. They demonstrate what iCulture has created. The overriding design principle is to keep it simple and to drive the design using images.
Venues or storefront
Gallery of Photography
A site dealing with the complexities of a very active venue
The site foregrounds photography, but leaves room for information.
Photo Album of Ireland
The easy user experience is built on a rich data-management system
Masonry display and lazy-loading are used to present images in an organic style that also reduces broadband load.
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The websites include features such as ‘masonry’ layout – which creates full, visually engaging content – ‘lazy loading’, which loads only those images that are needed, floating boxes, dynamic banners and much more. There is also e-commerce, from the simple (just PayPal) to a much fuller shop using the web standard, WooCommerce. Behind the scenes custom PHP, HTML, CSS, SQL, Javascript and jQuery deliver dynamic content. And there’s help with setting up and maintaining the site on its server, or even hosting with iCulture.
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Inis Ink
A complex e-commerce website offering Fine Art prints for sale
The site incorporates a shopping cart and checkout, members accounts, various payment options, and back-end reporting and stock-keeping.
The user experience is enhanced by floating ‘lightboxes’ that appear when an image is hovered, by the ‘masonry’ layout of products, and by lazy-loading.
Paint for Me
A store-front site with e-ecommerce
Dnote
The website for a weekly mailshot for the visual arts
Individual artist / writer
John Kelly Artist
A revised version of the artist’s site, this time concentrating on six ‘stories’
Gwen O’Dowd
The website of one of Ireland’s finest artists
Roderick Ford
A website for a poet, demonstrating what the amazing things that can be done with HTML 5 and Javascript. Full of animation and interaction.
Art and Context
A simple design – to let the ideas speak
A site where cultural theory is discussed need a presentation that is simple and unobtrusive.
Other cultural / historical
Connemara as form
A mostly one-page site that brings a fresh eye to a magical environment.
1916: Con O’Donovan
A website exploring aspects of the life of Con O’Donovan. He was active in the Four Courts area during Easter Week 1916.
Shakespeare was Welsh
A prototype webite demo-ing a one-page, one-theme approach
Business / consultancy
BCN Group
Efficient portrayal of profiles of an expert group
Customer Strategy
A fairly straightforward website, with blogging and promotion to the fore
TACA International
Responsive design that plays with Windows 8 look
Smappr
A one-page site to advertise an iPhone photo app (no longer active).
The single-page design is chosen to emphasise simplicity and fun. It features parallax scrolling – where the background moves more slowly than the foreground.
