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Stags' Leap Winery
Daryl Burch
FreeRun Technologies, Inc.
2160 Jefferson St., Suite 201
Napa, CA 94559
Tel: 707.265.1835
Fax: 707.265.1840
design@freerun.com
www.freeruntech.com
www.stagsleap.com
Watch a video about this project. Broadband (DSL or Cable Modem) recommended.
Windows
Media (.wmv) recommended for PC
Specializing in Web design, software development and wine industry
portals, FreeRun Technologies, Inc. has been immersed in the Internet
business since 1993. We were called on by Stags' Leap Winery to design
a striking, almost mysterious Web site that takes advantage of leading
edge technologies (primarily Macromedia's Flash) and a series of truly
amazing black and white photographs that capture the age and beauty
of their 150-year-old landscape and 19th century manor house.
The home page uses seperate background Flash movies to randomly load
one of four (4) different images each time the home page is requested
by a viewer. To tie in the theme, we affected a graphic frame for
each of the content pages representing a watercolor wash border as
you may find on a hand-processed print. As well, each of the content
pages uses a singular Flash movie to navigate around the site. This
provides animation and interactivity; while still allowing for quick
updating.
The Art & Literature section of the site uses multiple Flash movies
to display some of the featured works of resident artist Patrick McFarlin.
The goal for the Art & Literature section was to develop an online
gallery that artistically presented McFarlin's works without competing
with them.
This site takes a different approach to the typical load screen you
see with other Flash sites. It uses alluring quotes combined with
simple animation to set a mood for the viewer before "unfolding"
the site for them.
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