What Are We?
Jamie Peloquin Design is a small, full-service design studio located in Freeport, Maine, founded by designer Jamie Peloquin. With well over a decade dedicated to helping the Web become a more standards-compliant, usable and attractive place to be. We know we can deliver a Web site users can enjoy and actually use.
What Do We Do?
We are well versed in Web, print, corporate identity, video and environmental graphic design, we are focused on designing and hand-crafting Web standards-based, highly-usable, accessible and attractive Web sites and applications. Here is a bit of what we can do for you:
- Web Site Design and Development: Whether it is a purely informational site or a full-blown Web Application, we can provide standards-compliant, simple, highly-usable, accessible and attractive Web sites.
- Web Site Redesign: We can give your site a fresh look or convert your existing site to a streamlined and standards-compliant Web site using XHTML and CSS.
- Web Site Optimization: We can streamline your markup and styling, making it faster, more efficient and easier to manage.
- Web Consultation: Ideas on how to make your Web site work better for you, your readers and your clients.
- Corporate Identity and Logo Design: We can create a logo or a full corporate identity package for you, that truly reflects your company or organization.
- Print Design We can give new life to your promotional and informational print materials. Whether you need an annual report or a poster, we can provide a clear and engaging design.
Who Are We?
Jamie Peloquin
Jamie is a graphic designer and award-winning documentary film maker living in Freeport, Maine. Jamie began his career designing publications, Web sites and as a graphic artist for local newspapers. Jamie gained a lot of experience working in New York, at Chermayeff & Geismar, designing for clients such as Major League Baseball, Domus Magazine, Feed (online magazine) and the Columbia School of Journalism. Feeling the need to return to Maine, Jamie came back working as Production Manager, Senior Designer and Creative Director at web and design studios before setting up shop full-time in Freeport.
Associates
Wendy Clark
Wendy is a web designer, whose experience includes design and maintenance of dozens of sites within the MaineToday.com/Portland Press Herald family; co-development and design of proprietary content-management systems there (used with sites such as RaisingMaine.com and MaineBusiness.com); 15 years of independent design and development for individuals and companies; and marketing of websites through SEO, social media, print and online display advertising, signage and sponsorships. Her social media experience includes setup, design, integration and staff training for various MaineToday.com/Portland Press Herald brands as well as for her own brand. For 15 years, Wendy has been managing client relationships both internally at MaineToday.com/Portland Press Herald and independently, as distant as Texas, Utah and North Carolina as well as Northeastern states. Her client list includes L.L.Bean, DiMillo's, Time Warner Cable of Maine and Taunton Press.
Nate Morse
Nate is a programmer/data architect with a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Southern Maine and has been programming websites and data centric applications since 1991. He’s worked on a wide range of sites that let you read your college transcript (cmcc.edu), to the scheduling oil tanker docking in Portland Harbor (pmpl.com). Recently, work and curiosity has led him to work in various CMS/framework environments; Drupal, CakePHP, Ruby on Rails, CodeIgnitor, Django and AppEngine. In other words, he makes Web sites work.
Victoria Scanlan Stefanakos
Victoria is a writer and social media specialist, who cut her teeth in newspapers before graduating from The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1999. An investigator who loves a good story, she covered national affairs as a reporter for Newsweek. Now, she writes for national magazines and Web sites, including Real Simple, AOL.com and iVillage.com. She promotes it all on Facebook and Twitter and uses helpful links and keywords to make what she writes easy to share and search-engine friendly.
Bits & Bytes
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Web Standards?
Web Standards are a set of guidelines that help ensure that everyone has access to the information being provided to them on the Web. It also allows developers to produce Web sites faster, more streamlined and enjoyable to use and build. Web standards allow people with special needs (such as blindness) using an audible-browser, or for someone using a handheld device to get the same information as everyone else.
For more information on Web Standards, visit the Web Standards Project, or the World Wide Web Consortium.
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What Tools Do We Use Creating Web Sites?
We always look at what the best tools and solutions are for the job at hand. Quite often, those solutions include XHTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP and MySQL, hosted by a Linux-based server.
All of our code is written by hand (using BBEdit and CSSEdit) and our graphics are created using a robust blend of Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator.
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Documentary Films
Jamie Peloquin is also cofounder of TypeCulture Films, with type designer, Mark Jamra. Together, they have made several mini-documentaries on type-related topics. They also made an award-winning documentary short titled Harold. Harold has gone on to win the Maine Documentary Film Competition (2005), an official selections at the EthnoFilmFest in Berlin (2007), and the Anchorage International Film Festival (2005); shown at the Maine International Film Festival (2005) and Camden International Film Festival (2005).