DHC assisted 360° Multimedia by redesigning this tax services company website. The client wanted a feel that showed both their "boutique" business origins and their big business capabilities. The requirements were simple: the design should reflect and flow with the current marketing materials, and there should be a lot of motion. So the "Did You Know?" facts and background dissolve and rotate through, the main buttons are all Flash movies which involve the Mintax logo globe, and the photos in the right diamond also dissolve and rotate through.

One area of the original site that needed attention was the navigation. it was not very organized or consistent throughout the site. There are now five sections below the main page which contain up to eight subsections each, some of which have up to three subsections of their own. So the navigation needed to be a bit more intuitive and easy to navigate. Once inside one of the top five sections, the left nav bar fills in with it's subsections. During a subsection rollover, if that selection has subsections, a text menu pops out to the right. Also, each main section's page is a list of links and explanations, guiding the user to the desired information.

In the site, the images surrounding the main body and behind the navigation will slide up or down to accommodate the length of the copy. This ensures that the images will always be framing the information, just as they are used in the marketing and presentation materials.

Also, in some sections, a new "Did You Know?" Flash movie replaces the Mintax diamonds with information related directly to that section. This helps to both inform the user and help sell the Mintax services.

In a site that contains a lot of information that a user might wish to print to take offline, it helps to have a print-friendly version of each page. In the Mintax print-friendly, we have the logo and the diamonds used in the identity as a header, and the company contact information as a footer. This ensures that anyone who reads these sheets and has not seen the website will know what company is presenting this info, and will still get a feel for the Mintax identity. There are no background images or colors to interfere with printing. The rest of the content is formatted to be easily read.

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