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CashCrate gets a facelift

Rareview — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:11:20 +0000

CashCrate has just launched their new website (www.cashcrate.com) that includes a major overhaul to the user interface and visual layout of all major areas. The new design, which Rareview spearheaded, features a completely revised logo and strengthens CashCrate’s branding and identity. It has been studied thoroughly using A/B testing and the results thus far have been outstanding. The new design is outperforming the old one by 20% or more on new sign-ups and users who complete at least one offer.

The new CashCrate homepage

When the site launched yesterday, one member said,

“Wow, just wow. This design is brilliant. Did your team do really do it or did you hire a designer. Either way I love it and that is coming from a webmaster and aspiring designer myself. Not to mention I am ecstatic about the new features. I haven’t been active recently, but the new features make me want to get right back to it, which I’m doing right now. And finally, I’m excited about this contest sort of thing that broadcasts the new features while giving the users money/points. Thanks a lot CashCrate!”

As one of the premier players in their industry, CashCrate boast over 2 million members worldwide and send out checks for tens of thousands of dollars every month. So far, this launch has been quite successful and has provided favorable, quantifiable results.

Projecturf Version 2.0 Launches

Rareview — Wed, 12 May 2010 16:05:02 +0000

Projecturf, our web-based project management app, has just gotten a serious overhaul. Version 2.0 was just launched and it boasts an entirely revamped interface, tons of new features, new sections, and a totally rebuilt back-end. To take a look, watch this video. If you want to learn more about the new features, check out our website at www.projecturf.com. You won’t be disappointed.

Projecturf Version 2.0

Rareview Supports a Good Cause

Rareview — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:34:18 +0000

Rareview has just launched Drive for a Cause (DC) - http://www.driveforacause.org/. This is the first charity that Rareview has worked with and we value the opportunity that we got to be part of this amazing organization. We highly respect the work that DC is doing and we will continue to support them; we would also encourage you to support DC in any way that you can (donations can be made by visiting http://www.hoaghospitalfoundation.org/events.aspx). We hope to continue working with a few charities each year to do our part in supporting good causes that make a difference in people’s lives, just as Drive for a Cause does.

Drive for a Cause

Drive for a Cause (DC) was founded in July of 2007 by Marcus Berry and Jeff Bellitti. DC is a 100% volunteer-based fundraising organization and has donated over $81,000 over the last two years to various charities throughout the community. Their mission is to increase awareness, engage, and provoke action amongst its members to fulfill an inherent responsibility toward social, medical, and educational needs of their communities. The committee members donate their time and energy and no committee member receives any financial benefit.

Experimenting: Flash AS3 Grid Sorting

Andrew Knapp — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:45:16 +0000

Working on a project that required us to sort out a grid layout, we were experimenting with what the best methods would be to visually communicate the items on a vertically scrolling grid when resizing the window. Using a little AS3, I managed to code a few mad nerdy little examples. Of course, there isn’t any scrolling in these examples, but you get the point. Check them out here:

1) Left flush no-resize sorting : In this example, everything is flush left, and the grid items do not resize. Visually, it keeps the spacing consistent and everything in order, but leaves some whitespace.

2) Auto justify no-resize sorting : In this example, the grid items space out evenly to fit the screen and also do not resize. Visually, makes a good use of the gutters, but might look kinda funny.

3) Auto resizing, full screen sorting : All the grid items resize horizontally and vertically to fit the width of the screen. Visually, it makes the best use of the gutters, but stretches the images. So I guess this depends what sort of content you’re placing in the items. You may or may not want to stretch them.

4) Left flush no-resize smart sorting : This is the same as #1, but I call it smart, because it keeps the screen looking more filled. Once you resize the browser, you’ll notice that when your window is covering half of an item, it will appear/disappear. This hides some of the item, but gives some padding to make it feel more comfortable.

Download source files for all 4 examples here.

A lot of times, when you’re immersed in the design/development, you lose sight of the obvious and/or lose sight of what you’re actually trying to achieve. Are there other obvious options? Which method is the best out of these?

Let us know if you find these handy, or if you have any suggestions or comments!

Some New Work…

Rareview — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:43:55 +0000

Normally, we’d post these on our website, but we’ve been slammed lately with some really exciting work! However, we wanted to share just a few recent sites that are completed and live now; for your viewing pleasure:

http://www.24hour.com
http://www.jobberwoky.com
http://www.projecturf.com (completely re-designed and simplified)

We hope you enjoy!

We have a lot of new stuff coming early this year, including some of our own projects, so stay tuned!

Rareview Launches The Basic Resources Network of Websites

Rareview — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 14:13:34 +0000

After many long months of work, Rareview Interactive and Basic Resources have finally released a network of new websites!

Basic Resources is an international trading exchange and website network dedicated to oil & gas, commodities, energy, metal & mining, agriculture, forestry, recycling and investments. Rareview teamed with Basic Resources to develop their growing network of websites, which entailed making them multi-lingual, enabling international payments, creating the overall look and establishing the brand (we also designed and created the Basic Resources logo and styles), as well as building a custom CMS that enables the management of all the sites in the network, all translations, the ad-serving engine, and payment transactions.

To see the various components of this larger network, check out the following sites:

basicresource.com (main simple corporate landing site)
oil.net (oil & gas trading exchange on the network)
commodities.org (commodities trading exchange on the network)

To read more, check out the full case study on our website at http://www.rareview.com/?#work/bar.