Our Work

SalsaTimba.com

SalsaTimba, a place for worldwide salsa and timba lovers to get the latest community and events info, music releases, video clips, and more, needed a way to materialize -- a complete website and identity design. Being very intrigued by the Salsa and Timba cultures, Contagious Networks took on the challenge and developed a geolocalized social networking and multimedia website, powered by Drupal.

Included in this heavily user-generated and manageable layout is a revision and approval system (in which users can themselves propose content changes which moderators then approve). The Drupal base also allows website administrators to easily update each section's content whether that be through text, image, video, or audio uploads. To heighten its networking potential, the site is also set up with Facebook Connect. Other third party services used by the site to provide for greater content and interactivity include Amazon's Affiliate Widgets for Music for song previews.

In terms of the site and logo, Contagious Networks was greatly inspired by the painted, graffiti revolutionary wall writings in Cuba and by similarly painted menu signs in Havanna cafeterias. At the moment, Contagious Networks is developing an iPhone app that will be connected to the site and therefore make Salsatimba.com's important information mobile-accessible.

Tools Used: Photoshop, Illustrator, PHP, HTML, CSS, Drupal Other: Hosting and Server Management Provided by Contagious Networks

» URL: www.salsatimba.com

Dr Loeb - Plastic Surgeon

Renowned NYC-based plastic surgeon Thomas W. Loeb contacted Contagious Networks for a complete website design that depicted important information about him and his practice and that simultaneously visually pointed to his Fifth Avenue location.

The end result was the creation of three affiliated sites that are luxurious in layout, enabling a quick and efficient display of important information (possible operations and results) for potential clients while making use of colors and element placement that reflect the epicurean culture of the doctor's office location -- that is, equidistant spacing, light colors, and general orderliness.

Contagious Networks also executed a search marketing strategy that ultimately placed Dr. Loeb in the top three search page results for every target keyword of his.

Tools Used: Photoshop, HTML, CSS Other: SEM

» URL: www.drloeb.com
» URL: www.labialdr.com
» URL: www.bodytiteny.com

Maji Water // Pro Bono Project

Maji Water is a water company startup based in Montreal. It's main objective is to provide crisis zones with potable water since wells can only be digged in relatively stable or non-polluted areas.

"Whenever you drink a 500ml bottle of Maji, up to 1.5L of water will be donated on your behalf to a crisis-affected region of the world."

This website is minimal in design and the information it provides is concise. Contagious Networks offered it's services for free to support this cause.

Tools Used: Photoshop, HTML, CSS Other: SEM

» URL: www.majiwater.com Please note: This website is currently not maintained by Contagious Networks.

Bounce Entertainement

Bounce is a company that hosts events such as lacrosse coaching sessions to encourage feminine individuality by supporting honesty and promoting confidence. Although pink may be a stereotypically feminine color in society, it is far from the norm on the web.

Contagious Networks' use of the color as a base for the site gives Bounce an independent and daring online personality akin to the character they seek to foster within their members.

In addition to website design and development, an event management and online registration platform were provided with the help of Drupal, CiviCRM, and Authorize.net (which accepts all major credit cards). CiviCRM is an open-source constituent management solution that provides multiple features including event registration, participant tracking, sign-up/membership management, and personalized e-mail blasts.

Tools Used: Photoshop, Illustrator, HTML, CSS, CiviCRM, Drupal, Authorize.net

» URL: www.playonplayup.com

Renee Cox - I Am Desperate

For Renee Cox, Contagious Networks created a website that strongly echoes the theme of its displayed photographs, that of desperation. In a two-column layout with a designed sidebar that visually emphasizes the mental refrain of "I am desperate,"

Prototype Javascript was used to create an adjacent image gallery that provides an easy-to-use navigation and caption system while remaining unintrusive and thereby enabling focus to remain on the photos themselves.

Tools Used: Photoshop, Protoype, HTML, CSS

» URL: www.iamdesperate.net

Au Diamant Bleu S.A.R.L. - Paris

Diamant Bleu Paris is a estate jewelry buyer with 3 storefronts in Paris. With a minimal online presence,Contagious Networks was approached to devise an online marketing strategy and create a simple but elegant website.

Tools Used: Photoshop, Illustrator, PHP, HTML, CSS, Drupal Other: Hosting and Server Management Provided by Contagious Networks

» URL: www.diamantbleuparis.com

Joanna Lily Wong - Makeup Artist

Joanna Lily Wong, NYC-based makeup artist, called upon Contagious Networks to create a portfolio that was both light-colored and clear in ambience and also speedily accessible (in the short time frame of 1-2 minutes) to busy, potential clients.

Contagious Networks produced an effectively white background website that, instead of sticking to popular top-down portfolio formats, took full advantage of horizontal scrolling -- allowing Joanna's work to be displayed in a straight line and eliminating the need for tedious, time-consuming click-ons or click-throughs. Using PHP, a basic content management system was created to facilitate client-friendly image updates and additions.

Tools Used: Photoshop, HTML, CSS, PHP

» URL: www.joannalilywong.com

THE HOUSE // Gramercy

Having been restored in the late 19th Century, the Gramercy Park restaurant desired a website and print identity that fully captured its age and, therefore, classicism. Selected for the task, Contagious Networks produced a website, using Flash with Actionscript 2, that enabled a slideshow-like showcasing of beautiful photographs of The House's magnificent exterior appearance, its lush interior, and of select menu items.

Posed upon a dark background, the website's traditional rectangular layout and its photography does indeed transport users to an earlier time. Contagious Networks also conceptualized and designed a print logo, a three-dimensional vector sketch of the restaurant's exterior, that completely satisfied The House's desire to have a print identity that could be recognized without caption -- that could stand on its own.

Along with the logo, a print menu and business cards were designed as well.

Tools Used: Photoshop, Flash, HTML CSS Other: Photography

» URL: www.thehousenyc.com

Polymair Inc.

Instead of seeking a site that drew attention to itself, Polymair desired a minimalist web presence that would, instead, organically give more importance to the actual works of its artists. Contagious Networks developed a design that makes use of a lot of white space and image padding to ensure that users' eyes are quickly directed towards pieces of art instead of superfluous website elements.

Polymair's identity was also produced in a similar vein. In addition to website and identity design, Contagious Networks developed an e-commerce solution for the site based on Drupal, the Ubercart Module, and the Authorize.net Payment Processor. This setup ensures the highly desirable integration of carts into the website's layout (instead of external links) and also provides clients with a straightforward way to make updates.

Tools Used: Photoshop, Illustrator, Drupal + Ubercart, Authorize.net, HTML, PHP, CSS

» URL: www.polymair.com

RecruitingTrak βeta

This new website is going to help student athletes overcome the difficult university recruiting process. A $200/year fee gives you access to a private environment with themed calendars, pdfs, instruction manuals, weekly tips and more. Contagious Networks developed the website using Drupal and integrated a Bank of America payment gateway for order processing.

The challenge was to create different private environments (calendars, files etc...) that could be accessed after the purchase of a membership. Your graduation year/membership type defines the environment and information you will receive.

The admin interface is easy to use, the whole website is now maintained by the RecruitingTrak staff and not by programmers. We are just called in for technical updates, upgrades, backups and to make sure the engine is running smoothly.

Tools Used: Photoshop, Illustrator, Drupal, Bank of America Payment Gateway, HTML, PHP, CSS, Google Analytics, Linux Hosting

» URL: www.recruitingtrak.com

Ice-Qube Emergency Solutions

Ice-Qube, a retailer of luxury and basic emergency/survival kits, came to Contagious Networks in need of an online presence. Targeting a certain audience and associated income, Contagious Networks' design concept was two-fold. On one hand, it portrayed the possibility of emergencies and disasters occurring anywhere (image of a nice suburban neighborhood completely flooded).

Secondly, the design, although dealing with disaster, remained visually calm enough to retain visitors, encourage them to read more about the kits, and possibly buy them. E-commerce functionality was provided by the use of the open-source Magento platform. A key feature of this developmental project was Contagious Networks' foresight as it made use of the platform quickly after its stable version release and also shortly before its expansion into a globally renowned e-commerce platform.

Tools Used: Photoshop, Illustrator, HTML, CSS, Magento, Google Analytics, Linux Hosting

» URL: www.ice-qube.com - Magento website created by Contagious Networks. This site is no longer managed by CN and the current look & feel has been redesigned by another company.