I’ve hired Jesse for a number of Viacom projects I manage, along with some other clients in the fashion and retail arenas, and he’s proven to be consistently awesome and original with his work. His efforts are seen on several high traffic sites for MTV and VH1 and he’s in the very front of my rolodex.
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Monday, October 12th, 2009Free Template Layout of a Corporate Web Design
Monday, October 12th, 2009Solely for practice, I fully designed a template layout in Photoshop for the fictitious company “Elevator Tools,” and am offering the web PSD template for free. The design is intended for a corporate web site, but with a few tweaks I’m sure you could turn it into a number of different web sites.
You can view a preview the free template layout in the image below:
full view of the corporate web design
full view of the corporate web design
I think many of the people downloading this PSD file are designers looking to learn from the layout or incorporate parts of it into their designs, and I encourage both! This web PSD template is offered free and without limitations for use in your personal, commercial, and metaphysical works.
Once you download and open the layout in Photoshop, you will see that all the layers are clearly organized and labeled. You should have no problem navigating the PSD file and I hope you will — if you don’t already — start employing some of the organizational methods used. If your PSD will ever make it into the hands of fellow web designers or developers, they will love you for keeping the file organized!
detailed view of the corporate web design
detailed view of the corporate web design
The fonts used are Verdana and Rockwell. If you do not have Rockwell, a simple Google search should turn it up. When it comes to web-safe fonts, I’m a big fan of Verdana — both for its legibility and clean characters. Rockwell is an awesome typeface, but I wouldn’t want to read more than a couple lines set in it. This is why Rockwell works great in small amounts, such as for big titles that need a little extra flair. You will notice in the PSD file that, with the exception of buttons, only instances of Rockwell have effects applied to them. This is, of course, because Rockwell is not a web-safe font.
This web design layout was the starting point for an extensive tutorial I wrote for PSD Tuts+ titled How to Elevate Your Web Design Process and Results. For more details about the thought process and Photoshop techniques employed to create this template layout, please refer to the tutorial.
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Friday, October 9th, 2009“he’s proven to be consistently awesome and original with his work”
Professional Design Work
Friday, October 9th, 2009Jesse completed our business cards and did a great job with a quick turnaround. They help to give our company a cutting edge, modern look and feel. We just have get him to redesign our website to be just as good now!
Jesse Chapo is your go-to web designer!
Friday, October 9th, 2009Jesse has an unwavering vision for taking an idea and spinning it off with his own creative twist. Not only will he deliver the highest-quality and aesthetically-pleasing work, but he will work with you until he gets it absolutely perfect. Trust me, if you’re serious about creating an internet presence for your business, Jesse is your guy
Exceptional Designer and Creative Thinker
Friday, October 9th, 2009Jesse has been a member of our core creative team and involved in dozens of graphic designs for MTV and VH1 related projects — specifically, digital/web designs and apparel design. Jesse is a creative force that is always innovative and unique, but also understands and works exceptionally well in an enterprise-level business environment that requires a rapid pace, the sometimes endless iterations to his creative material to reach our branding visions, and the patience and focus to deliver high quality projects every time and on time.
Fantastic, Responsible Designer
Thursday, October 8th, 2009Jesse is not only extremely talented, but meets all his deadlines and is above and beyond professional – traits difficult to find in most artists, but he will provide you with everything you need when you need it. Very much worth every penny.
