Today 97 million Americans, more than one-third of the adult population, are overweight or obese. An estimated 5 to 10 million of those are considered morbidly obese.

Obesity-related health conditions are health conditions that, whether alone or in combination, can significantly reduce your life expectancy.

Douglas Olsen, MD specializes in general and bariatric surgery. Their staff are dedicated to working with each patient to find the best possible treatment options.

http://www.olsenmd.com//

For more than two decades Gobbell Hays Partners, Inc. (GHP) has led the architectural, engineering and environmental industries to create healthy, safe and pleasing environments where people work and live.

GHP’s talented team of architects, engineers, industrial hygienists and safety professionals exceed client expectations by offering specialized streamlined consultation, as well as synergistically integrated services.

This website project consisted of an informational front-end site written in ASP.net 2.0 and MS SQL 2003 with a full Content Management System offering control over all content including projects and training events.

http://www.ghp1.com/

A brand new self-storage experience unlike anything you have ever seen before. AmeriSite Sixth Ave Storage is a small family owned storage business in Nashville. They take great pride in making sure their customers have a wonderful experienceand are excited to be a part of all the great things going on downtown.

The website project consisted of an informational front-end site coupled with an ASP.net and MS SQL 2003 based system for on-line reservations and bill paying.

http://www.amerisitestorage.com/

Darkstar Design partnered with Katcher Vaughn and Bailey Public Relations won a bronze pin award for the Harpeth Valley Utilities District Logo Design.

 

 

Bronze Pens
- Harpeth Valley Utilities District Logo - Graphic Design (Corporate Logo)

The IABC Nashville Gold Pen Awards are open to all communications professionals in Tennessee and Southern Kentucky and recognize great communication work that was produced or implemented between December 31, 2004 and December 31, 2005.

IABC Nashville provides learning opportunities for its members through monthly professional development meetings featuring communications experts from the Nashville area and Middle Tennessee, providing insights into the latest communications trends and issues facing the industry.

For a full list of winners visit http://www.nashvillegoldpenawards.com/

Darkstar is proud to present the website for Jesse Goldberg.

Jesse Goldberg makes people laugh no matter where he performs. From Madison Square Garden, to Catching a Rising Star, and to improv coast to coast, Goldberg is the funniest equal opportunity offender. The Bluebird Cafe in Nashville, TN as well as the clubs in Aspen, CO are booked solid when Jesse is in town. He takes no prisoners, as they say, and the best part is, Jesse even wrote a song about himself!

Jesse’s site promotes his latest releases and is used as a tool to purchase his CDs online. The use of streaming audio and video showcase Jesse’s musical talent.

http://www.jessegoldberg.com/

Orenco Station - a growing community in Hillsboro, Oregon has attracted many local businesses. Together, they formed the Orenco Station Business Owners Association and sponsored a new website. Each business can potentially create as many pages as they want about themselves, and every page is fully editable. Every business has their own unique username which lets them add and edit new pages, but restricts them to their own areas. This site also features a great map page that directs customers to specific businesses with the popular Google Maps interface.

By now, millions of people have seen the latest incarnation of Google Local – maps. Google’s popular tool lets you find the closest pizza place, driving directions to your long lost cousin’s house, or a famous landmark seen from a satellite’s perspective. You can even plan your trip around mass transit (if you live in Portland, OR).

Maps are nothing new. Yahoo! and MSN both have maps, and MapQuest has been a popular engine for years now. There’s more than meets the eye to Google Maps, however. Google not only released this tool for you to use on it’s local search, they also released it as an API – that’s right, you can include a map of your own on your web page and drive it using some very simple Javascript.

There are quite a few possibilities with Google’s API. You can move the map around, create overlays, draw custom shapes, and even use some built in AJAX functions so you don’t need to load data for the whole map right away when you are only looking at a small portion of it.

Right now the tool is completely free and open – all you need to do is get a free key for your domain name (I’d pick up an extra one for localhost too) and you’re ready to go. We used this system with the Orenco Station website with great success.

Orenco Station is a community in Hillsboro, Oregon. The website was sponsored by the Orenco Station Business Owners Association and each business has the potential to create their own page on the site with a simple interface. We used the Google Maps API to generate a satellite image of Orenco Station with markers at each business’ location. This makes it easy for customers to find what they are looking for.

Darkstar is proud to present the website for the Belew Group.

http://www.thebelewgroup.com/

The Belew Group, a leader in business development, is made up of holdings across a variety of industries. Their mission is to create high-end businesses offering distinctive services and products. In addition to business developments, the Belew Group creates and offers investment opportunities in luxury residential communities and commercial properties.

Darkstar is proud to present the website for Tennessee T-Cakes.

http://www.tntcakes.com

Tennessee T-Cakes uses only the finest quality ingredients, and stubbornly refuses to compromise their product with chemical additives, dyes or preservatives. They were recently featured on the Food Network’s “Roker on the Road” and will soon be on “Oprah” and “Two for the Road”.

On this project, Darkstar Design also created all product photography including all beauty shots.

Darkstar Design has completed its third website redesign for GAPSEMC. For over 8 years GAPSEMC and Darkstar Design have achieved extraordinary recruiting success using the hottest new online and email marketing strategies.

http://www.gapsemc.com
http://www.howtorecruitgraduatestudents.com

Graduate and Professional School Enrollment Management Corporation (GAPSEMC) is America’s leader in recruiting graduate students. Their mission is to provide customized solutions to the toughest graduate recruiting challenges. By listening to needs, GAPSEMC gives all the real-world skills recruiters need to achieve world-class recruiting results.