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The Cycling the World website features a top-down layout with the occasional double column to enhance functionality. Aculios also designed the trademark logo, which can be seen on all the DVDs and and letterhead. Plenty of whitespace and a vibrant blue wrap helps set the stage for all of the beautiful photos.
Challenge: Cycling the World needed a website that would be a sales tool for their soon to be released DVDs. Without any finalized content at the time, and only the idea of sharing their great content, Aculios had to take the wheel and create an online experience from the ground up.
Result: Aculios delivered a website that was engaging and attractive. The site's comforting colour palette, and helpful information offers the perfect balance between content and style.
Team: Aculios was delighted to work in conjunction with E-Crew Media who handled the e-commerce side of the project.
Featured Elements
Lightbox
A great way to view photos without having background content disturb the viewer.
Trademark Logo
Aculios designed the trademark logo, which can be seen on all the DVDs and and letterhead.
Essential Elements
Valid XHTML and CSS
In a perfect world, all browsers would follow the web standards and valid documents would predictably render on every browser and platform. Although validating XHTML does not ensure cross-browser compatibility, it is a recommended first step.
Major Browser Support
All sites are tested for proper viewability in Safari, Firefox, and Internet Explorer 7.
Web 2.0 Colour Scheme
Soft, neutral background colours with plenty of white space help draw the eye to the more important elements on the page.
Design Tools
Photoshop CS3
Is the best, most full-featured image-editing program available.
Coda
Is an integrated web development application that helps developers streamline their workflow.
Parallels
Allows many versions of Windows to seamlessly run on a single Mac, for testing browser compatibility.