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Lady With the Pants: Budget Website for New Business

May 24th, 2011 by Shannon-Rose Design

The Lady with the Pants is a website based on the Fruition Method, principals created by the author and founder that enable individuals to lose weight and stop smoking. Theresa Ayala speaks from experience in her two books, Tobacco is a Killer, and Love Your Life, Eat Well and Never Diet Again. This is a small business site that includes a very small WordPress Store, a blog, and a custom form. [Read more →]

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Remembering Bernie Fuchs, Illustrator

May 23rd, 2011 by Shannon-Rose Design

Bernie Fuchs Illustrator

I remember a Sports Illustrated article in the early eighties regarding the biggest fight of the decade between Thomas Hearns and Sugar Ray Leonard. I have long forgotten the article, but I still remember the illustrations to this very day. That was thirty years ago and I recently tried to find some of those classic Fuchs’ paintings. Much of his work is found through a Google search, but none of the Leonard v. Hearns paintings. Luckily, Sports Illustrated has an entire archive, and I found the article and took some screen shots. The article begins on page 36. [Read more →]

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Fulton County Tourism’s Updated Website

May 12th, 2011 by Shannon-Rose Design

We launched the updated Fulton County Tourism Website, with all new features and interactive map.

This site includes some heavy duty code and database work, and showcases the premium version of our now famous tourism interactive map. Fulton County Tourism has full content management tools, and the team can also log-in and enter events and pinpoint where they belong on the map. [Read more →]

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On Growth: Being Old and Making Changes

May 3rd, 2011 by Shannon-Rose Design

The people who introduced me into this business have scattered in many directions. Some are in completely new industries, some retired, others are dinosaurs, while a few are just plain dead. I have a deep fear of the last two.

Over time, if a business is lucky enough to continue to exist, it will expand, contract and possibly reform into a new entity. It is difficult to gauge the severity of the changes, and grasp the timelines that measure the demise of once key services. Moving forward seems less complex, less emotional, and more procedural than knowing when to cut back. The problem doesn’t lie in conceptulizing new ideas; it is the retooling of the systems, procedures, hardware, and humans who perform the new service. Being a visionary is not imagining the future, it is building the fundamental process that enables that vision to be profitable. [Read more →]

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Custom Invitation for Saratoga Economic Development Corporation

April 20th, 2011 by Shannon-Rose Design

Shannon-Rose Design recently created a nice little invitation for the Saratoga Economic Development Corporation (SEDC). The event will be hosted at the new City Center in downtown Saratoga Springs, NY on May 12, 2011. [Read more →]

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