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New Look for Discover East Lyme Website

Role: Web Designer / Web Developer

Launched in 2006, Discover East Lyme was due for a makeover. Brown Bear created a fresh, open look for the website, while still retaining the site’s original charm.

The new design showcases more beautiful photos of the town and focuses more attention on local businesses. The new navigation across the top provides an intuitive experience for visitors and frees up space in the main body of the website.

The homepage highlights the latest news and upcoming events so that visitors can quickly and easily find information about seasonal happenings such as the Light Parade, Restaurant Week, the Memorial Day Parade, the LobsterFest, Celebrate East Lyme, and more!

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Jog New London County Website

Role: Web Designer / Web Developer

Jog New London County is an online resource that offers descriptions, photos, and custom-drawn maps of running routes in Southeastern Connecticut. Panorama shots of scenic places to run are showcased in the masthead, invoking a “local” feel.

Aside from running routes, the site also provides upcoming local race information. All the race listings are housed in a database and editable via a Content Management System (CMS). Outdated races automatically disappear from the website. In this way, race listings stay fresh, current, and easily accessible.

Brown Bear also improved the site’s usability by including a search function at the top of every page.

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Brown Bear was honored by the Connecticut Art Directors Club (CADC) at their 34th Annual Awards Show with a Silver Award for the design, development, and photography for the Jog New London County website. Read the full press release here.

In May 2010, Jog New London was featured on Fox61’s Daytrippers. Learn more and watch the video here.

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To help promote the website, Brown Bear Creative created fun illustrations for a turkey trot t-shirt.

Town of Canterbury Official Website

Role: Web Designer / Web Developer

The Town of Canterbury needed a website they could easily update themselves. They chose Brown Bear to create an ADA-compliant website with a user-friendly Content Management System (CMS).

Updating the site via a CMS provided an easy way for Canterbury officials to comply with a state mandate to the Freedom of Information Act which required towns to post meeting minutes and agendas to their websites in a timely fashion.

The new site also features a Flash slideshow movie on the homepage that highlights Canterbury’s natural and cultural attractions. Other dynamic elements include a Selectman’s Blog, a photo gallery, and a calendar of events.

Out-of-towners can learn about Canterbury’s offerings, and residents can easily find application forms, board meeting agendas, meeting audio files, and information about town events, departments and community groups.

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