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"It looks like you already have a great set of skills. I looked at your prices and you are the best deal around! Really, for the work you are doing, you should be charging more for your time."
Rebecca Hayes, Professor, American River College, Sacramento, California
"I just spoke with a guest [who] is the webmaster for his company and was extremely impressed with our/your website. He actually looked at 8 different websites of B&Bs in the area and chose us because of our website. Our sincere thanks for your on-going efforts on our behalf."
Sandy & Ray Edmondson, Blair House Carousel Inn, Placerville, California
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One picture is worth a thousand words, so increase the power and appeal of your website with custom graphics. These are samples of our work that our clients and viewers have enjoyed. (See note below*) Click an image to see more, if available
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Animations
An animated business name and butterfly made for Metamorphosis Hair Design,
indicating the visual transformation that takes place when you go there
It was impossible to design the Blair House Carousel Inn website
without making this 'real live' carousel horse. Just impossible!
Click horse to see screen view of website
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Custom Montages
A display of unique gift items representing the variety to be
offered at Shop Donna's online gift store
Above, the flowering vine "hanging" from a trellis was superimposed over the inns' brochure
photo. A circular slide show, showcasing all the member inns, played under the vine.
Click the green Dottie Award image above to learn more about the Dotties.
The collage I see whenever I close my eyes!
The header above, designed for the El Dorado Nordic Ski Patrol, shows who
they are and what they do by combining their oval logo, a snowy Sierra photo,
and in the foreground, a picture of Walt, their beloved telemark skier
A custom splash page showcasing some of Bonnie's favorite
images of the inn, with a "watercolor" border and custom lettering
Two headers designed for the Donna Lee Collection of handmade jewelry,
one showing strung beads and chain on a turquoise background,
the other showing various bright jewel-tone colors reminiscent
of the gemstones emerald, ruby and amethyst.
A collection of famous and infamous characters sets the
tone for the Gold Rush Chronicles website
Peanut, Oscar and a feathered friend, placed in circles to be used as link buttons
for their respective pet products on the Stella Jones Collection website
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Other Graphics
Header above made from a drawing of St. Pauli Inn Restaurant and custom lettering.
Below the header are matching oval navigation buttons, all in sepia-tone for this historic inn.
Stella & Jones "standouts" (backgrounds removed) for what else? The Stella Jones Collection of custom pet products!
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Placing the circle behind Jones' ears gives
this image a 3D effect, making it look as if he's sticking his head through a hole.
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BBQ-appropriate tag line made with "fire" lettering and "flames"
and "smoke" effects. Then we ignited their oval logo with "flames" in
keeping with their "Get Your Grill On" theme.
Above is the header and footer designed to match the inn's architecture and decor
(reduced in size). Below is the Victorian "wallpaper" background designed to match
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At left, a border we put together for a gourd art website made from photos of the owner's artwork to showcase her products
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Gift card promotion for Shop Donna's,
replete with gift bow
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Special Effects
We enhanced these photos with special borders and/or custom
lettering to highlight the innkeeper's eclectic style
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We scanned these historic photos, then manipulated the digital images for the Web, leaving their discolorations, tattered corners, asymmetry and creases in keeping with the desired "aged" effect of this historic inn.

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Left: Daguerreotypes, photographs developed on silver or silver-plated copper plates, can also be scanned.
Notice the rosy cheeks that were added to this dashing chap on his 1860 daguerreotype during processing or sometime after. (We are not responsible for the blush. Honest!)
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This 1910 photograph came to our office small and quite faded:
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We scanned it:
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Enhanced it:
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Added sepia:
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Next we did a close-up:
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Our Photography
For more photography samples, click here for another slide show

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*Note: Graphic services are available with or without a website, and include logo design, animations, custom montages, high-resolution photography, photo manipulation, custom backgrounds, and stylized images and photo edges.
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Animations | Custom Montages | Special Effects | Photography | Logo Design
For more of our graphics, please see our Portfolio of websites.
Website Packages | Website Portfolio | Logo Portfolio | Graphics Portfolio | The Process
Marketing | Other Services | Awards | Comments | Help | Site Map | Get an Estimate
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Located in the Sacramento region, Sierra foothills, and El Dorado County since 1997, ComSpark is a web design company that has provided web-related services for clients in the Sacramento region, Sierra foothills, El Dorado County, California, U.S., and Europe. For the past 14 years we have offered award-winning website design services to Sacramento, El Dorado Hills, Cameron Park, Placerville, Lake Tahoe, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Tucson, Phoenix, Seattle, Spokane, Portland, northern California, southern California, Hawaii, and throughout the U.S. Our services have benefited professional clients in the Sacramento area, Sierra foothills, El Dorado County, California, U.S., and Europe with custom website design and development, database integration, Internet marketing, graphic design, custom logos, commerce-enabled websites (e-commerce), high-speed hosting, website maintenance, re-designs or remodels, and other web-related services.
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