Cobalt Sky is a rising web-based design and development company in Houston, TX serving a range of clients from the public and private sectors. During the last five years we have developed numerous web sites, flash modules, flash-based designs, graphic designs, identity solutions, and web-based training solutions to satisfy our customers' needs to educate their employees from any location around the globe.
For five years, Cobalt Sky has been producing web-based e-learning solutions for a broad range of clients. Founded in May 2002 as a Macromedia Flash®-based content delivery firm, Cobalt Sky has expanded to create rich, database-driven sites, standards-compliant web sites, eye-catching graphics, and Flash®-based training solutions. All operations are conducted in the northwest region of Houston, TX.
Flash: Using Macromedia Flash®, we deliver results to your project's requirements. Ranging from web sites, animation, and database driven content delivery, to learning and assessment modules, we produce interactive solutions to enhance your project.
Web Design: In compliance with the World Wide Web Consortium's rules, we create standards-compliant and accessible web sites. What does this mean for you? Faster loading times, decrease in bandwidth used, compatibility across today's modern browsers, the ability to reach a broader audience, and more. Our sites are coded with XHTML, CSS, ColdFusion®, PHP, JavaScript, SQL, or any combination of these languages.
Graphics: The colors and graphics on your site or project can be just as important as the content. We can provide attractive graphics and identity solutions to present your content in a visually appealing environment.
Web Services: We offer web site optimization and re-design, web site maintenance, search engine submission, and web hosting (for sites we develop).
Andrew Harron: Andrew is the head designer and developer at Cobalt Sky. Born in Ontario, Canada, but raised in Arlington, TX, Andrew has over seven years experience in designing and developing web sites and other forms of web-based content. He received his Bachelor of Environmental Design from Texas A&M University in 2000, and has worked for Texas Engineering Extension Service and for K2Share creating rich web sites and content delivery systems using ColdFusion and Flash. He founded Cobalt Sky to continue evolving his work in Flash®-based content delivery.
Katie Dixon: Katie is the newest addition to the Cobalt Sky design and development team. Katie is a "military brat" and grew up in such places as Alaska and Hawaii before settling in Houston, TX. Katie has dabbled in graphics and web design since 1999, and she graduated Summa Cum Laude with a degree in eBusiness Web Development this Spring. Katie has worked on numerous web sites and graphics projects when working freelance for three and a half years. Katie exhibits much enthusiasm and has a great work ethic- a welcome addition to Cobalt Sky.
Cobalt Sky launched the re-design of a website for Michele Flory & Company of The Woodlands, TX. The site is a one-stop shop for information about The Woodlands and includes real estate information, current tax and property charts, the team's listings and custom home information, details of the schools in The Woodlands, information about the community, entertainment, and other happenings in The Woodlands, and much more!
Michele Flory is one of the top grossing Realtors in The Woodlands, and her dedication to her craft, hopefully, shines through to visitors of her website. As a resident of The Woodlands, Michele has great insight of the community and is certainly excited about helping people find the perfect home to suit their needs. Michele Flory & Company invites everyone to "come experience The Woodlands!"
There are many features on the website, including the following:
- - Clean URLs - such as http://www.micheleflory.com/Community/The-Woodlands-Country-Club/
- - Forms on each listing page to allow visitors to request an appointment or to receive more information about the property
- - The option for external links on a page to open in a new window
- - A live chat feature
- - Slideshows for each property that include numerous pictures of the home
- - And much more!
We invite you to view the website and learn more about The Woodlands, TX from the Realtor who knows it best! From townhomes, brownstones, traditional homes, and golf course lots, to custom homes and the development of The Woodlands East Shore, Michele Flory & Company are eager to help you understand the real estate process and find you the house of your dreams.
Cobalt Sky has worked on a weblog site for Michele Flory & Company of The Woodlands, TX. The blog is called Experience The Woodlands and is located at http://www.ExperienceTheWoodlands.com. The blog focuses on Real Estate news and happenings from around the country, state, and The Woodlands, community and neighborhood news, and new neighborhood updates. The site includes links to many free services provided by Michele Flory & Company, headed by one of The Woodlands' top realtors- Michele Flory of Prudential Gary Greene Realtors in The Woodlands, TX.
The site itself also includes a contact form, a services page that lists a large number of different businesses in the area (from carpet and flooring to sheetrock and weekly yard maintenance), and even a gallery. The gallery has some beautiful aerial pictures that were provided by Eddie's Airshots, as well as many pictures from around the area provided by Michele Flory & Company. The gallery captures a lot of the beauty of the area and includes pictures of sculptures, water features, the town center, parks, and more.
The blog has the potential to expand for each neighborhood, as it has with Hazelcrest in The Woodlands. Other neighborhoods might include: Altwood, Cascade Canyon, Chandler Creek, Dove Trace, Heritage Hills, Hunters Crossing, Lansdowne, Legacy Point, Lenox Hill, Mirror Ridge, Peaceful Canyon, Shawnee Ridge, and Stellar Point. The neighborhood blog serves as an addition to the printed newsletter that each resident receives and offers the flexibility and convenience of being online. Editors and users can post news, events, etc. and comment on what has been posted. We hope this will help unite the neighborhoods and allow neighbors to get to know each other a bit better.
Katie Dixon took the reigns with the design and development of the project and is pleased with the attention the site has already begun receiving in the short time that it has been live. The bulk of the project was developing a 3-column fixed-width Wordpress template to use on each page, as well as pages that are not controlled by the blog software. The design is XHTML and CSS valid with some PHP additions to the CMS which is run by Wordpress. Another large portion of the project involved the customization of the gallery to transition easily from the main blog page, yet still have it's own "look." We went with Coppermine as the gallery software because of the customization, flexibility, and ease of use for both Admins and visitors.
Experience The Woodlands courtesy of Michele Flory & Company and Cobalt Sky.