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welcome to jm design

what were about
We are a cutting edge interactive media agency specializing in Adobe® Flash® and Flex®. We work with advertising agencies, individuals, and graphic designers all over the world.

how we get it done
For the most part a large part of our workload is accomplished with the use of Adobe® Flash® and Flex®. However, to get to a final result we use a ton of other great tools to get you the look you desire. Whatever the need JM Design will get it done with style.

our motivation for excellence
JM Design is fueled by outstanding design and the need to develop truly helpful applications. We are constantly striving to make your projects better than the last and always keeping an eye toward growing trends in the interactive world. This expands our ability to further accomplish the unique needs of your interactive project and deliver something that is truly cutting edge.

recent works

our news

6.16.2009
easter egg hunt
An 'easter egg' has been placed on this site. Can you find it? Hints are that it's on every page and appears at night. Good Luck!

6.06.2009
sol design project
JM Design is also currently working with Sol Design Group here in Sacramento on a really cool website project involving the new 3D features of Flash® and Photoshop® CS4. Look out for more info as it develops!

6.02.2009
version 3.0 goes live
Welcome to version 3.0 of JM Design's website. We are very excited to see it finally go live and really hope you like the new look we have. Feel free to leave your comments in our contact page. We always love hearing from the community and as always thank you for visiting today.

5.21.2009
testimonials page
We have collected tons of great comments that previous and current clients have left us. So we have decided to start a testimonials page to include all of them for you to see. And please feel free to leave any comments that you wish and we will be more than happy to include them as well ;)

4.16.2009
digital duchess goes live
Well we just finished another website project with one of our original clients. Kerry is a great person to work with and we always love working with here on her many different endeavors.

The Digital Duchess website was a rework of the basic layout and functionality of her original home based computer consulting business site, Digital Alliance. The color scheme turned out great and once again Kerry is extremely happy with the site. Thanks again Kerry, we appreciate your business!

In fact we are starting another website project for her non-profit computer donation organization entitled 'Karma Computers'... Stay Tuned for some updates.

4.12.2009
css, xml, fonts, and flash, happily together at last
We are happy to offer complete formating with any textfield made in Flash with custom fonts, XML, and CSS formatting of that textfield. This really opens up possiblities with website and component layout while being incredibly flexible when changes need to be made. This also allows the ability to display as many different fonts within one textfield and also change font size, color, and alignment of these fonts.

Well, what does that mean for me, the client? The answer is you have the ability to easily change the appearance of your content via the CSS style sheet without having to change anything else (fla, swf, or xml changes are needed). At anytime with a program as simple as Notepad, you can drastically change the appearance of your site and its content.

Our website is an example of the current formating available to you and your project. On our homepage there is only two textfields that contain 2 fonts, 5 or 6 different sizes, and just as many color changes. Enjoy.

4.08.2009
deep linking added
Man, have we been waiting for this day with great anticipation and it is finally here. 'Deep Linking' within Flash what a concept! We'll yeah, but what the heck is that right?

Well, while you browse the Internet from place to place and page to page, your browsing history is kept for you. This history enables you to utilize the Forward and Back navigation arrows in your browser. However, complete flash sites like JM Design previously worked differently. Basically you would land on the home page > then browse around within the site and then you hit back..."ahhh, where did our site go? This just took me to the site I was at before JM Design."

Well, that is no longer the case. This also allows you to direct anyone to a particular page within a Flash Site like this. So bring on the forward and back buttons, we dare you ;)

what our clients say

"Did a stellar job on both projects. They also did an awesome job teaching us how to add additional flash content on our own. A+++", "Great Job!"

dennis ward
mental ward films
audio player
video player
video vault

"Not enough words in the thesaurus to fully describe how helpful, talented, and hard working JM Design is. Thoroughly exceeded expectations. Amazing work, thanks so much for my site!"

dylan porter designs
dylan porter website

"JM Design rules - easy to work with, bright, quick turnaround, will definitely be working with them on many projects to come!"

danielle cunningham
seriousmedia.net

"JM Design's website is awesome! Very solid. I actually think my favorite aspect of it is their broad range - of medium, of aesthetic, etc. It comes across to me as if they are open to exploring a lot of styles, and likes to let the nature of their subject (or client, etc) shine through, rather than impose their own design agenda - which is exactly what good designers should do." - "All in all, I was blown away with the quality and extensiveness of JM Design's work, and I think they have a great potential to make a big name for themselves!"

kelly cooper
sol design group

"Very creative, easy to work with and responsive -- will definitely work with again."

jason meilleur
web banner promo

"JM Design was very helpful and willing to work with me until I was completely satisfied."

fritzs inc.
fritz menu

"I LOVED working with JM Design. They are extremely professional and creative. I am not only using them on this project but will continue to recommend them to all my clients. JM Design is a total asset to my company!"

kerry grimes
digital duchess
digital alliance

some of our work

advertising

project Web Banner Advertisement
clients Glass McClure Ad Agency/Amtrak
details This is the very first project we completed for GM. We loved the original ideas for the banner and by using TweenLite tweening class's for movement and transitions we were able to keep the file size at 30kb. The level of detail would suggest otherwise. Amtrak and GM were very pleased with the end result.

project Web Banner Advertisement
clients Glass McClure Ad Agency/Duraflame
details The project was extremely unique and required a flame to be created from green leaves. We ended up using a looping animation of 15-20 frames due to the 30kb requirement. The level of detail is still impressive considering the overall file size. We also utilized TweenLite to accomplish movement and opacity of assets.

project Television Commercial
clients Glass McClure Ad Agency/Duraflame
details This project required us to add audio feed, animation, and wording to sync together while keeping the time constraint to 15 seconds. This was created for film/tv so file size wasn't a concern. This is a frame by frame animation which utilizes Tweener to control timeline.

project Web Banner Advertisement
clients Glass McClure Ad Agency/Luckys Supermarket/Raiders NFL
details Project requirements were to include a waving flag, moving shopping cart, and city background all while keeping the file size below 30kb. We used 3dStudio Max for the flag animation and TweenLite for movement and opacity animations.

project Web Banner Advertisement
clients Glass McClure Ad Agency/Luckys Supermarket/Warriors NBA
details Project requirements were to include a waving flag, moving shopping cart, sound, and city background all while keeping the file size below 30kb. We used 3dStudio Max for the flag animation and TweenLite for movement and opacity animations.

project Interactive Graphic
clients Jason Meilleur
details This was a mock up of the actual banner ad so you could choose each one at will. The actual project was set up to randomly choose one of the four to display. Pretty simple but extremely useful for his site.

some of our work

components

project Image Gallery
clients JM Design Creative Project
details An in-house project we produced for a website photo gallery. Some features include a easily adjustable thumbnail gallery to be placed horizontally or vertically. It also has auto sizing white picture border and draggable main image with linkable project functionality. We used Tweener for animation and opacity functionality.

project Website Intro
clients MEC
details Project included music, images, and lots of transitions to show off main aspects of MEC power company. The intro was used as the menu system for MEC's website. All text, images, and music are introduced dynamically via XML which is easily edited externally to aid in future customizations.

project Interactive Menu
clients Fritz's Meats
details Very simple menu header which uses Tweener to accomplish text manipulation, color, and filter effects. All button's where created with a customizable button class and is edited via XML external file to aid in future customizations.

project Audio Player
clients Mental Ward Films
details Extremely fun little project whose purpose was to have a single player for each audio feed on Mental Ward's website. All movement and opacity was accomplished by using Tweener classes and can be edited via one XML file for infinite placement on a single webpage.

project Video Player
clients Mental Ward Films
details This is similar to the Audio player above but this obviously loads standalone movies. This is also XML controlled and in also can be placed an infinite amount on a single web page.

project VideoVault
clients Mental Ward Films
details One of the coolest projects we have had the chance to work on. It is a video vault which is completely ran from a external XML file. It has the ability to organize media into categories and the capability to include an infinite amount of content variables.

project Furniture Layout
clients dstyle
details This component is used as a sales tool for an interior design client. It basically shows to their clients an organized format of all the components and furniture that was chosen for each individual home design. It worked extremely well for dstyle and streamlined their presentations considerably.

some of our work

websites

project Flash Exclusive Website
clients Digital Duchess
details This site incorporates many great elements controlling the content including expandability to any resolution screen size, content control to keep elements aligned to center and top of screen. It also has a vehicle which is the owners business car which zooms through the screen on page transitions.

project Flash Exclusive Website
clients Digital Alliance
details Site is simple but feature packed with elements. This site also adjusts to any resolution while keeping content centered and top aligned. The button transitions and fade array are a great element of the site along with the transitions of the images and content area on page change.

project Flash Exclusive Demo Webpage "At the Movies"
clients Private Contract
details This is a mock up of a portfolio site for a voice artist which does both live action and voice. Unfortunately the site was never fully developed but we really like many elements within the site like the video control box which is illuminated by the stage lighting on rollover.

project Flash Exclusive Demo Webpage "Whats Up"
clients Private Contract
details This is another page developed for a voice artist that was never fully developed. The screen is fully adjustable with any resolution monitor while moving elements around the stage. It also has a great menu with animation and sound elements.

project Flash Exclusive Website
clients Dylan Porter Designs
details This site was our first professionally. It incorporates the image gallery component to display the web artist's work and also photography service. It contains an element which allows you to navigate the artists desk while clicking hotspots to reach the content.

project Flash Exclusive Website for school Project
clients Robert Barbarino
details Very simple project website which was completed for a school project for friends of ours at Sac State. It is a mock up of an actual company selling a fictitious service and misc items.