Greater Than One Productions
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After Five Restaurant & Street Lounge opened, the web site got some attention. It wasn't long before I got an e-mail from Josh at Fischer Edit, who was in need of a site himself.

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Josh was ready to start a production company through Fischer called Greater Than One. He saw the Five site, thought it was cool, and we got started on one of the most peaceful and easy-going jobs I've had thus far.

It somehow eluded me, at first, that Josh was looking for something with more texture. The Five site has all sorts of different texture on it, but it didn't occur to me at first. Once we got over that hump, it was pretty easy to settle on a design. Josh really liked the linoleum background of the concept we ended up developing.

I tried to get as much texture in as I could to meet that goal. It ended up being a strange mixture of odd materials with site navigation that's a little less traditional--expanding menus that moved from right to left. Secondary navigation showed up in the form of long, belt-like tabs, similar to the content headers.

To keep with the feeling, the administration pages also worked in pretty much the same way as the user-facing pages themselves. Everything could be added or deleted in their respective areas so it felt somewhat like in-line editing.

GTO is still preparing their content and getting ready to go live, so that site hasn't gone up yet, but I'm looking forward to when it does and I can see it with more than just a skiing video I took with a digital camera :).