Hi!
Welcome to Pretty Smart Studios! We're a creative design and web development agency in Columbus, Ohio.
Why don't you have a look through our portfolio while you're here?
Slick design, advanced AS3 coding, interaction with remote databases...you name it! Here are some samples from our Flash portfolio:
Flash Projects
Anti-Label
Columbus fashion designer Kelli Martin made a name for herself on Project Runway's 5th season, and she needed a website to match.
We built her entire site in Flash with a basic storefront that she controls from a PHP-powered backend. Like all our Flash sites, Anti-Label.com makes use of SWFObject for perfect flash embedding and SWFAddress for tight browser integration.
RJ Priest & Associates
Ray Priest is a landscape architect and site planner from North Royalton, Ohio. He needed a basic site to showcase some of his work.
Inspired by the simplicity of business cards, we developed an online interactive portfolio. It employs a minimalist design aesthetic that emphasizes ease of use and lets his content speak for itself.
Experta Search Partners
Experta Search Partners is a local small business that fosters close relationships with its clients. Each year they send out a Flash greeting card to their business associates, and this year they asked us to put one together for them.
Not only did we design them a gorgeous card, but we added dynamic loading that lets the client swap out the image on their own, saving them buku bucks on annual development costs.
Flex Projects
We know our way around Flex, too! Check out some of our projects:
Meep!
Meep! is a complex, data-driven web application that we're developing. We're using the Cairngorm MVC framework. The back-end is PHP using ZendAMF to connect to a MySQL Database.
Norwich Township Interactive Map
The Norwich Township site was designed by a talented local designer over at Hamrick Creative. We worked with him to create this interactive map, which was built in Flex using the Yahoo! Maps AS3 API. We also designed the custom icons that appear over key locations on the map.
Sample W2
This is a demo application. It allowes the user (your HR rep) to fill out a W2 form for an employee.
It breaks the form into several pieces and forces the user to input all required information before moving on. Most fields have validators and all fields have custom tooltips which can can be toggled. The final "submit" button does not do anything--no data is saved in this demo.
Web Projects
When we're not playing with advanced interactive development techniques we can be found honing our HTML/CSS/PHP/JS skills. Here are a few sites that we've worked on:
Flotation Walls
We developed flotationwalls.com from scratch for the up-and-coming band from Columbus, Ohio. The site uses artwork from their new album, NATURE, and features a media blog powered by Tumblr.
Look forward to additional features and functionality as we work with the Flotation Walls to create the perfect band site.
Capital Games
Cap-gamers.com is the online companion to a local used game store here in cap city. They wanted a retro edge for their website with a gaming look-and-feel that was also tied to the city of Columbus.
All of the buildings in the header are composited from photographs of actual Columbus buildings and the colour scheme is meant to evoke the golden age of Nintendo gaming.
The Recycled Retriever
We designed the logo and customized much of the back-end for this site. It's running a heavily-modified instance of Magento to power its e-commerce functionality as well as a WordPress blog.
New World Hosting
We worked with local designer Chris Hamrick to bring NWH to life. We took his awesome design from a Photoshop file into compliant and beautiful HTML/CSS.
If you like what you see here, please drop us a line!
We're currently accepting new projects and we'd love to hear from you!
