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New Website for Fiesta Invitational Tournament Supports Child Crisis Arizona
Leading up to the 33rd annual Fiesta Invitational golf tournament, Eight Trails designed and built a modern, mobile-friendly site for the fundraiser event in support of Child Crisis Arizona. The site features a photo slideshow, countdown timer, easy-to-update sponsor logo gallery, and engaging animation effects such as flip cards and content accordions. Eight Trails built…
Read MoreCustom Development Pulls Auto Data into New AutoWarranty123.com Website
AutoWarranty123.com offers extended warranties for car owners. For their new website, we researched online data sources to provide up-to-date year/make/model information for every car manufactured since the mid 90s. That seems easy enough, but when you consider the combinations, it’s mind-boggling: We display 24 years, with approximately 50 manufacturers (it varies by year as some…
Read MoreCathy Mac Knits Goes Live With Midcentury Modern Website
In August we launched a new website for Cathy Mac Knits, the website of expert knitting instructor and designer Cathrine McClure, based in Phoenix. The site makes liberal use of colorful yarn photography for backgrounds, and features a color palette and Eight Trails-designed logo inspired by Cathrine’s love of 50s “space age” design. The site is fully…
Read MoreNew Website for Medical Cannabis Dispensary Midtown Roots
In early August we launched a modern and elegant new website to coincide with the grand opening of Midtown Roots, a new medical cannabis dispensary in midtown Phoenix. The new site is fully responsive for optimal viewing on desktop and mobile browsers, and it features some interesting custom functionality developed by Eight Trails. The slideshow…
Read MoreSpotlight on New Website for Second Beat Improv
Second Beat Improv Theater opened in Phoenix in October 2016, and we at Eight Trails were honored to be instrumental in helping them get launched. The theater is the personal vision of longtime Phoenix improv performer Sam Haldiman, and takes its name from the three beats of The Harold, one of the standard structures in…
Read MoreHow We Revved Up West Coast Collector Autos
We recently launched a website for West Coast Collector Autos in Westminster, California, and there’s a bit of magic going on behind the scenes to make this site as helpful to car enthusiasts as it can be. The site had a limited budget and the business had no logo, so we used a simple theme…
Read MoreNew Website for Luxury Custom Home Development Soars
The breathtaking location of Eagles Nest custom home development in Fountain Hills, Arizona, demanded a website that could do it justice. Eight Trails delivered a site that is strong on panoramic visuals, to show off the unique terrain and soaring views found here in the foothills of the McDowell Mountains. We tightened and focused the…
Read MoreMagazine Ads Grab Attention for Gear.com
Gear.com is an online discount retailer of outdoor gear and apparel. Because Gear.com is a clearance outlet with an ever-changing inventory, our challenge was to create ads for categories of products – ski equipment, fitness apparel, mountain bikes – without naming or displaying specific brands or models. Our concept suggested that by buying from Gear.com…
Read MoreA Fully Non-Improvised New Logo for Second Beat Improv Theater
One common form of long-form improv is the Harold, which consists of three “beats” or movements. This being the second theater founded by Second Beat’s director, he chose the Second Beat name and asked us to focus on beats and on circular motifs, which also figure strongly in improv. The modern and expressive typeface reflects…
Read MoreA New Website Drives Reservations for Arizona Shuttle
Arizona Shuttle operates between Arizona’s top vacation destinations and Phoenix Sky Harbor airport. To help them position themselves against a popular local shuttle, as well as to compete against several smaller van services in some of their destination cities, we worked with fp2 Marketing to design a new logo, write a tagline, design van graphics,…
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