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StirStudios recently relaunched DancePlug's website along with a new marketing strategy from Elizabeth Barry & Associates. The main goals at the top of the list for the rebuild were speed, theme optimization, simplicity and focused. If you take a look I think you will agree we achieved all of the above! DancePlug is such a creative client to work with and we wanted to help them showoff some of the changes we made:

New interactive homepage
The new homepage says it all giving the viewer what they need to know on their first impression.  In one hit viewers can now understand what makes DancePlug rock in their career profiles, online dance classes, the Dish - your news-flash channel for all things dance and lastly their awesome demo reels.

This week DancePlug released their latest service called the DancePlug Dish.  A fun web show produced by us.

What's new? Who's busy? What's happening?

Find out on DancePlug's new creation:

The DancePlug Dish, hosted by choreographer Benjamin Allen, your weekly news-flash channel on ALL THINGS DANCE.

Every week, we will release a fast paced episode that sums up the latest news in the dance world, such as dance celebrities, and shows or movies in the works. Each show will also include our featured events, classes and pluggers (circuit breaker!). And of course you do not want to miss the Dirty Dishes, a little piece of goss on something good, bad or just plain ugly!

Been a busy couple of months but loads of success.  Below is a recap from the Stir Team:

Wrapped a new dancer reel for Sharona D’Ornellas
Stir provided Sharona, a successful New York performer, with marketing tools including, demo reel and custom label and DVD menu.

view work

We have had a busy month fine tuning DancePlug and refining where necessary.  This project has come along nicely and been well received from the already established dance community.  Some of the new details include:

• The ability for users to share class previews to all their contacts via email
• User videos now have higher quality compression so in full screen they look loads better
• flv and mp4 formats are now uploaded as is, which gives yet another quality bump to users footage
• Private messages now quote the message inside the email notification
• Faculty members can now promote their classes when promoting their profiles

We have been super busy rebuilding the new DancePlug V2 platform. So many great improvements and the biggest being speed and usability. We are all very proud of the end result and hope DancePlug receives all the benefits they deserve.

StirStudios finally found the time to refresh their look and rebuild their own website. New logo, new website, new ways for showcasing their work. This upgrade has been a long time coming but now that it is here, we are very happy.

To look through our portfolio click here, you will find our setup to view our work nice and easy to navigate through. Each client has a set of tabs to quickly flow through their projects as well as a brief description of what was involved.

The StirStudios development team has been powering through the development process for the new streaming system that will be implemented for DancePlug's Online Dance Classes. We will be implementing two different quality levels, as you would expect low and high. Obviously lower quality will give greater speed to the videos, the downside will be quality and the high quality videos will look super, but will take longer to load.

I have been working with Thomas Flagg and Francesca Harper in bringing together some great new pitches for dance related TV series. Inside the life of a dancer and all the challenges they encounter along the way. We are lacking in footage so we are using a lot of titles and images to help keep the pace and flow alive. Tommy is a great client and always has some challenges to accomplish!

StirStudios just wrapped up another website. A tremendously cool design from Anh Dillon really showing off Laura Fremont's new clothing line "Body Blog - Make a Point" and her great T's. It's exciting to see the finished site in action. After one day of being launched her first T-shirt was sold :) Body Blog is using PayPal for all transactions and this made the setup rather easy to keep everything simple.

Check out Body Blog now and of course buy a rad T while you are at it.