Chesapeake Safe Harbor is a very active website. Itis designed to be very easily updated with new information added on a weekly basis with a minimal amount of effort.
   
This site features the use of color, both to enhance the visual appearance of the site, and to help organize and make large amounts of text easier to read. For an example of this, see the FAQs - Questions & Answers page.
 
The navigation is simple and straight forward, it remains the same from one section to another, and the changing colors of the links shows viewers where they have already been. Hyperlink navigation like this also helps the pages to download quickly.
 

This homepage starts off with "Welcome to Bruce Laukka, Inc. - Premier builder for mid-coast Maine and off shore islands." It then goes on to provide an ever expanding portfolio of work in both residential and commercial venues.

The basic navigation of the Project Portfolios is achieved through clickable links superimposed above a map of the coastline.  This very graphic form of navigation quickly orients the viewer as to the location of each project site. The portfolios present each of the projects by means of high quality photographs, which are optimized for the best possible presentation on the web, and quick downloading.
 
The site features an interesting use of colors and a layout which focuses attention on the actual projects themselves, and does not distract the viewer. Navigation on the site is clean and intuitive, the viewer is never more than a click away from any of the project directories.
 

The Captain Jack Lobster Boat Adventure website The overall color scheme used in this site was taken from a number of the photos used throughout the site. The main navigation is a simple css menu, with the selection highlighting as the cursor passes over it. There is also a secondary, hyperlinked text navigation system repeated at the bottom of each page. The overall design is very clean and sharp, and has a consistency throughout the site..
  

This website has a very graphic black and white layout suggested by the keys on a piano. This theme is reinforced by the use of a section of a keyboard for the main navigation, with each key acting as a link to a section of the website. There is also a secondary, hyperlinked text navigation system repeated at the bottom of each page. The overall design is very clean and sharp, and presents the client's content with a minimum of distraction.
  
Like most of our sites, the overall page. and HTML code layout is designed for quick and easy updating of the site, whether on a regular basis, or a yearly expansion as the web-based portion of the business grows. This type of design helps keeps the costs down to our clients, which usually results in more frequent updating, which in turn, makes the site itself much more productive.

 

This is a good example of a well "targeted" site. It was designed to appeal to educators and libraries. The site features "Curricular Connections" for many titles; these are teacher's guides which suggest ways of using the audio tapes in the classroom. This is a valuable resource to teachers which keeps them coming back to the site. There are many other features designed to encourage viewers to return to the site on a regular basis.
   
This site also features clean design—both for viewing online and for printing out for use in the classroom. User friendly navigation is used throughout the site. This site is updated once a month, and continually adds new material... this keeps educators coming back on a regular basis.

 

The Ridge Mist Llama & Alpaca Supply site is the web version of their printed catalog. — adapted to work as a web presentation. It is a very large site which features full color photos of all of their supplies.
 
The site is updated with new products and photos on a regular basis. It is much easier (and less expensive) to keep a website current than the printed version of the catalog. This site does not use a shopping cart at the present time, although it is an option in the future.
 

Presenting this type of material online is much less expensive than having it printed in full color, and it is easy, and relatively inexpensive to add or subtract material to keep the site current.