News

  • Jun
    27

    A New Website for Invertigo Dance Theatre

    Invertigo Dance Theatre has been a long standing client of StirStudios. Invertigo first came to us for branding, filming of their show and a website. Since then the dance company has flourished and with it their web presence. As time progressed Invertigo needed some upgrades performed to their site including: greater site width, social media implementation, better project presentation, cooler integration of images which Invertigo are well known for, streamlined view for the artists, more striking site background and some other smaller things.

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  • Apr
    19

    DancePlug rebranded and ready to rock

    StirStudios recently relaunched DancePlug's website along with a new marketing strategy. 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.

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  • Nov
    21

    The DancePlug Dish

    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.

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  • Nov
    13

    Busy Month for Stir - Reels, Websites and More

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

    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.
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    Site updates for Terpsichore Entertainment Fixed some bugs in the homepage, added a new sidebar to feature artists, testimonials and quotes.
    view work

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  • Oct
    5

    DancePlug Progresses

    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

    Of course there has been many a bug to fix but all in all the site is now stable and users are enjoying the new experience.

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  • Sep
    8

    Danceplug V2 Released

    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.

    Let's move into some of the details so you can really know what we did:

    The UI: has been overhauled giving an even greater user experience than before. Custom icons, themed buttons along with loading animations, great visual ads and more, thanks to Anh Dillon's designs.

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  • Jul
    7

    StirStudios has a brand new look

    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. Stir has also built a nice new system for clients to collaborate and sign off on concepts logging into our site. Clients can easily find their most recent projects, review designs or media, give comments for changes and adjustments, with an emailing system to keep everyone in the loop and finally an approval setup to sign off on the project. A nice way to work with clients anywhere in the world!

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  • Jun
    19

    DancePlug V2 Progress

    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. The major difference will only affect the full screen feature as at normal size the quality difference will barely be noticeable.

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  • Jun
    17

    Terpdance.com Reality TV Series

    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!

    This project requires a blend of Final Cut Pro and Motion. Photoshop is used for optimizing the images and when completing edits we use episode to compress and then upload to a protected page within the Terpsichore Entertainment website.

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  • Jun
    9

    Body Blog - Make A Point is Now Live

    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.

    We used Drupal as our CMS system to build the site and Ubercart was used for the store. Nothing too fancy here as this site needed to be fast, slick, unique and easy to use.

    Cheers, Glyn

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