SkyView Partners
Identity
SkyView Partners, LLC is an AS/400 Security Company based near Seattle, WA. A former colleague of my mother's at IBM named Carol Woodbury helped found SkyView and they asked me to design a logo for them. After a few days and a dozen failed attempts this is what we decided on:
![SkyView Partners final logo design](../images/portfolio/SkyViewLogo.gif)
The logo for SkyView Partners I designed in April 2002. While my initial web site design has since been replaced, this logo is still going strong.
It was a small project, but I met all of my clients needs and worked through many alternative designs in a very small time period.
Web Site v1.0
Though they have since moved on to a JSP, I designed the original SkyViewPartners.com.
![The first version of SkyViewPartners.com](../images/portfolio/SkyViewV1.gif)
The first version of SkyViewPartners.com existed from April 2002 until sometime in early 2003. Though its table-based design was a mistake, its CSS-driven menu was a strong point.
Contrary to the forward thinking design of HopkinsDance.com, I used tables and a fixed background image in the first design of SkyViewPartners.com. Even in my ignorance I still used CSS to create a horizontal menu with rollovers (no JavaScript required). As the mouse hovered over a menu item the text got bigger, visually highlighting the user's selection. I had no idea I was doing it at the time, but creating a text-only, CSS menu was ahead of its time. They have since become the standard in any web design project.
![Closeup on the CSS menu and the larger text size when the mouse hovers over an option](../images/portfolio/SkyViewMenu.gif)
The "About" option currently has the mouse focus, so the text is larger. This was done completely using CSS to create a visual cue for the user.