About Pixelshell

What We Do

Pixelshell is a small web design studio founded by Dmitry Fadeev and Myles de Bastion, specializing in creating elegant and usable websites through simple, streamlined and accessible design. For a more detailed overview of our services and pricing, please click here to see the Services page. You can see some of our past works in the portfolio below:

Portfolio

Below is a gallery of different projects we've worked on that will help you decide whether we are right for you. Please click on the preview links provided to see full size screenshots or live versions of the pages:

Freesound

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Description: New redesign for the popular collaborative database of Creative Commons Licensed sounds. We have really enjoyed working with Freesound, a busy site with over 100,000 active users. We are very pleased with our designs. The new look will be live very soon.

Doominio

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Description: We're popular with web hosting companies who often are looking for a professional and modern look. Polished and clean design and code goes a long way toward inspiring confidence in the brand and product.

Spiralhost

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Description: Site designed for a web host called Spiralhost. All the icons and promotional imagery as well as all the inner pages were custom made for the client.

iPod Noticias

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Description: A Wordpress blog template for an iPod and iPhone news blog. (Note: Large >1MB screenshot!)

League Lineup

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Description: New template created for professional services for amateur sports. Client was really happy with the designs created for them. Our first foray into Javascript to reveal/hide additional content. It was good fun getting to grips with the Mootools framework.

Shop til you Crop

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Description: A website for a scrapbooking hobby store. This template was designed for the ProStores e-commerce system.

My Mock Draft

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Description: A new face-lift for My Mock Draft that brings a new consistent look whilst enhancing the site functionality. The user interface sports visual clarity and promotes ease-of-use. Now, creating football drafts and keeping up-to-date with the latest news is a pleasurable experience for site users.

HostSuar

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Description: Web design created for a hosting company called HostSuar. The design embrances the lively and dynamic feel of Web 2.0 to give the hosting firm a modern and fresh look, while at the same time retaining a serious and reliable image.

Pixelshell v1.0

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Description: Version 1.0 of the Pixelshell website. The design aims to embrace the best of Web 2.0 design trends, such as simple tabbed navigation, strong colors and horizontal layout layers, as well as being accessible and usable through the use of semantic XHTML and CSS.

Team Premier Website

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Description: Wesite designed for a final year university project team. Portrayal of a powerful image was the main aim here, and so heavy imagery was used to generate the right atmosphere and feel for the site in order to best reflect the team.

Bloodthirst Website v3

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Description: Website for a Half-Life 2 game modification called Bloodthirst. The site was designed to reflect the visuals and the style of the game, and so is features a visually rich interface with a dark, high-tech theme.

Leviathan Website

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Description: Website for Leviathan, an online project management and collaboration system for creative professionals. The gentle range of the pale teal color and simple layout was designed to reflect the feel and simplicity of the actual system.

Ten Canoes Trailer Page

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Description: A movie trailer page for the film "Ten Canoes", published by Palm Pictures. The page was designed for inclusion on the Apple movie trailers website, and so featured rich visuals reflecting the theme of the film.

ProStores Template

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Description: Custom made template designed to be integrated and distributed for use with the ProStores e-Commerce content management system. The design retains a generic style that enables it to be utilized in a wide variety of environments.