Best Web Now - Portfolio for Louis Raphael

Sailors and Saints

Client:: Sailors and Saints

I’m currently building this site for a hair salon in San Jose. The owner wants a professional site with a young hip look. It will include some jquery as well as an appointment calendar that will go live in the near future.

Cambio de Actitud

Client:: Cambio de Actitud

I built a mockup of this blog for a client that needed a redesign of an existing wordpress blog. The client wanted a more interesting design with an environmental theme so I added some texture and imagery to the site giving it a more organic feel.

AHA Vintage

Client:: Aimee Sare
Company:: AHA Vintage

I built this site for a clothing designer in Santa Monica california. The owner wanted a clean modern looking site. I really like the way the mannequins images are presented in a collage giving the site a very futuristic look.

Bond Rewards

Company:: Bond Rewards

I built this mockup for Bond Rewards a few months back. They had approached me to propose a new idea for a layout that was more inline with simplifying their message and implementing web 2.0 design concepts.

Cook with Drew

Client:: Dew Closs
Company:: Cook with Drew

Here’s a site I’m currently building for a celebrity chef in Los Angeles. I went with a traditional theme for this to represent the years of experience that Chef Drew has acquired throughout the years. I also used a lot of texture to give it a comforting feel and a place where users want to [...]

Sven Persson

Client:: Sven Persson

I built this site as a tribute for my Swedish grandfather who was a famous soccer player playing for the IFK Norkopping soccer club. The whole site was programmed in Flash/AS3 and includes video functionality. I went with a vintage/classic elegant theme to commemorate his life.

Chef Jet

Client:: Chef Jet

I built this site for a celebrity chef in Los Angeles that’s now working at Azuza in Las Vegas. He’s been featured on Las Vegas television as well as many other media outlets. He wanted the site to have a professional Euro Asian feel.

Flex

Client:: Flex Magazine

I worked for four years for American Media as the front-end web developer for three of their sites. This included updating the sites, creating microsites, designing banners as well as building and sending monthly newsletters.

Muscle and Fitness Hers

Client:: Muscle and Fitness Hers

Muscle and Fitness

Client:: American Media

Global Clinicals

Company:: Global Clinicals

Global Clinicals came to me to redesign their site, give it a fresh look with an emphasis on professionalism. I went with a gray/white/blue color scheme to convey the serious nature of their work as well as added some Flash interactivity. I also templated the whole site in php, replaced most of the tables with [...]

Chris Sare for Men

Client:: Chris Sare

I built this site for fitness nutritionist guru Chris Sare. The site was targeting men, a new audience for Chris so I used a red/black color scheme to convey excitement. The site includes a membership section as well as multiple photo galleries of Chris during her modeling days.

Celebrity Stumble

Client:: Celebrity Stumble

I built this site using the CMS Wordpress, which I themed from the ground up. The site is a comedy site that chronicles the mishaps of celebrities.