Egill Harðar

Here’s the original layouts I did for ÍMARK (The Association of Icelandic Marketers) last year. This is a grid based design with neatly defined call to action features on the front page and a content heavy footer. I was pleased with the outcome and especially the use of typography and warm and inviting color scheme.

Please note that Seth Godin has nothing to do with ÍMARK or any events held by the association.

Frontpage view

Single news page view

Single event page view

2007 seems like a long time ago. That year will probably be forever know in Iceland as the year capitalism went berserk and drove the country into medieval recession. One of the companies, who’s star shone the brightest that year, was the infamous FL Group.

I was lucky enough to get to design the company’s site. It was a fun and ambitious project and the result is one of my best designs. Sadly, the site’s presence online was short as, soon after going live, FL Group changed it’s name to Stoðir and published a new corporate website in the process.

Designing the Actavis corporate website is by far the biggest, longest and most extensive web project I have worked on. Just designing the navigation took almost a week. All in all I think I design somewhere around 200 – 250 individual pages, info-graphics and special information features. One of the best projects I’ve worked on.

These are the original website layouts for home improvement super store EGG. Recession has all but forced the store out of business and it is now only and outlet somewhere with one employee. Nevertheless, though my shiny, dark, minimalistic designs lived a short life online, I thoroughly enjoyed making them.

These are the original layouts I did for Icelandic investment company Askar Capital while at Eskill. Clean, minimal, typographical grid based design never fails.

Below are my top 10 bookmarks from last week. They include everything from the future of music to the most popular Wordpress plugins to improving usability and user experience in ecommerce.

You can follow all my bookmarking activity on delicious and Twitter.

Last weeks top 10 bookmarks:

1. 8 Ways We Increased Ecommerce Sales By 10,000%
   A fantastic post on how Headscape increased the sales of Wiltshire Farm Foods by 10,000% and how you can do the same for your site.
2. 30 Most Popular Wordpress Plugins
   This one kinda explains itself. A must read for any Wordpress user.
3. Twitter Guide Book
   Mashable’s complete guide to everything Twitter.
4. 10 Big Marketing Predictions For 2010
   The Rise To The Top’s predictions for marketing trends in 2010. A must read for any serious marketer.
5. The Social Media (R)evolution: Your Time is Now
   Brian Solis’ massive post on the future of the social web.
6. A Guide to Creating Email Newsletters
   A great post by The Web Designer Depot that covers just about everything you need to know about email newsletters.
7. 101 Ways to Promote a New Blog
   Awesome guest post by David Turnbull over at Daily Blog Tips.
8. 11 Ways to Influence People Online and Make Them Take Action
   Probably the best thing I’ve read all year. A monumental post!
9. Compensation not Control – the Future of Music
   Gerd Leonhard’s Keynote at MidemNet 2009.
10. 5 Ways To Use Twitter’s New List Feature For Marketers
    Great post by Rohit Bhargava on Twitters new feature.