New year, new site « Neutron Creations

New year, new site

Written by Ben on 14.01.2010

As the dust settles on 2009, everyone is busy putting their plans for 2010 into action. For us, we’re kicking our plans off with the unveiling of something we’ve been planning and building for a little while now – a new website for Neutron Creations.

Our first site, designed by Tim Van Damme, was built to communicate a small amount of information about who we were and what we did. The resulting one page design turned a lot of heads for its striking appearance, and it fulfilled its duty brilliantly by bringing us some of our first clients. As we found our feet with the business and completed our first projects, we knew it was time to expand the site into something more detailed. Looking back, it’s clear that we owe a lot to Tim’s design, and it’s with mixed feelings that we move it to our little museum where it can be admired for years to come.

For the new site, we approached Elliot Jay Stocks who we’d already worked with, and told him we wanted something unconventional that didn’t abandon the feel of the original site completely. It took us some time to get used to the radical ideas he came out with, but we believe he’s really outdone himself and we’re over the moon with our new home on the web. We’d love to hear what you think too, so please leave us your feedback in the comments, especially if you’ve spotted any teething problems. The new site is also home to our portfolio (which we’ll be adding to soon) and a bit more blurb about what we’re all about, as well as the blog you’re reading now which we’ve dubbed The Particle Lab.

Our lab techs will bring you news on what we’re up to, and will also share plenty of ideas, techniques and tricks we discover as we continue building web applications for ourselves and for our clients. We’ll be talking about anything that pops into our heads that we think someone might find useful, from snippets of code from our weapons of choice such as Ruby (on Rails), HTML, CSS and jQuery, but also less technical topics such as our views on the state of our industry, or ideas for marketing your products and services. One thing we can guarantee is that there will be absolutely no top ten lists of any kind. On that you have our solemn word.

So please subscribe to this channel via our feed or email, follow us on Twitter, or just stop by once in a while for the latest post. We look forward to welcoming you back here soon.

Ben Bodien is Principal & Co-Founder at Neutron Creations, where he oversees product design and front-end development. For a somewhat balanced mixture of ranting and raving, follow him on Twitter: @bbodien.

19 Responses

Philippa

January 19th 2010 @ 3:21 pm #

WOW!
Elliot Jay Stocks

January 19th 2010 @ 3:38 pm #

Yay! I’m so pleased to see it live! Thanks for the very nice words, too: you’ve both been so much fun to work with.
Will

January 19th 2010 @ 3:42 pm #

This is the sexiest looking site I’ve seen for a while! Great job :)
Daria

January 19th 2010 @ 3:48 pm #

Looks great! Simple, yet with a lot of essence :) Good stuff!
Tom Kenny

January 19th 2010 @ 4:10 pm #

Loving the design and build, great work all round. I’m especially loving the CSS animation in the header of your blog and the contact page (I’m a form design geek).

Working with you both on Flexible Flights was a pleasure so keep up the good work!
Christoph Zillgens

January 19th 2010 @ 4:40 pm #

A really, really great new website and blog!
I like the new textures and the darker, less saturated background. It makes the logo stand out even more. Oh, and what a cool home button effect.
I like that every single page has its individual layout.
Also the 2 figures in the header and footer of the blog are great.
:)
Dwayne Paisley-Marshall

January 19th 2010 @ 4:45 pm #

I love the simplicity of this site, each section of the site works well together. You have done an awesome JOB.
Ange Chierchia

January 19th 2010 @ 5:21 pm #

Really awesome design!
Great job Elliot, I love your works
Liam McCabe

January 19th 2010 @ 5:29 pm #

I absolutely love the design. Beautiful texture and layout. I do like how the the contact forms are done, but the message box on the general enquiry form is incredibly small :/
Oliver Waters

January 19th 2010 @ 6:08 pm #

Seriously love the new site guys – simply beautiful! Amazing job Elliot!
Rasmus Kalms

January 19th 2010 @ 6:10 pm #

I really like the blog (like, a lot), but the site just feels too weird for my taste. I was a huge fan of the design by Tim Van Damme, and this feels like a huge step in a totally different direction. I, personally, would have loved to see an evolution instead of a revolution! But who knows, it wouldn’t be the first time a site grew on me, so I might be back to revise my opinion later on ;-)

Congratulations!
Taufiq

January 19th 2010 @ 8:44 pm #

It just incredible site, love all the section on this site,
love your work Elliot, as always :)
Ben Bodien

January 19th 2010 @ 9:28 pm #

Thank you everyone for the warm welcome. It’s great to be here, and we hope you’re ready to rock.

@Elliot – Thanks again for your hard work, it’s been an honour and a privilege as always.

@Tom – It was great fun working with your designs, and I hope we get to play with more of them in the future.

@Liam – Well spotted – we need to do a bit more work on the contact forms and that’s something we’ll look at addressing.

@Rasmus – Thanks once again for your considered feedback. It was tough for us as well moving on from such a stellar look and feel, but we needed to add a lot more content and we picked Elliot because he gets on well with Tim and we knew he’d preserve some of the feel of the original. It took a lot of getting used to for us, but I’m sure you’ll love the new site in a short space of time just as we did.
Damian Comans

January 19th 2010 @ 11:00 pm #

Wow absolutely fantastic site guys. Seriously looks and functions great. Very creative. Love it.
Daus

January 19th 2010 @ 11:27 pm #

The redesign is nice, but I prefer the old design by Tim van Damme, though.

The thick-bright color-lines and the variations of font size here and there on the redesign somehow cluttering the homepage.

IMHO :)
Rasmus Kalms

January 20th 2010 @ 10:47 pm #

@Ben – Yeah, well.. I think it’s already starting to grow on me ;-)
omar

January 23rd 2010 @ 3:53 pm #

good work chaps….. a little over my head but cool.
try looking at your site on an old slow computer like mine…. very interesting.
Gene Crawford

January 25th 2010 @ 5:11 pm #

Awesome website guys! Great work all around to all. The blog has to be my favorite part.
max

January 25th 2010 @ 8:57 pm #

Its very unique and clever. I like the fact its very different to the norm and the diverse layout is really nicely done. great work again EJS!