23 Oct, 2008
Posted by: Joe
Posted in: Durrani News
We’re excited to announce the launch of our newly designed Durrani website! Jump over to our main site at www.durranidesign.com and check it out.
It’s been almost a year and a half since launching our previous site and a lot has happened since then. Our client list has expanded and our talents and abilities have grown, so we’ve been long overdue for an upgrade.
The new site greatly improves the presentation of our client portfolio, organized by web design, print design and photography. The site is also built around a MySQL database for quick and efficient updating of information. As time went on, we found it more and more difficult to showcase the designs we are proud of to our perspective clients. Now we can post our latest and greatest works online immediately. Every business needs a showroom.
One of the biggest limitations many companies face is having a website that is out-of-date and hard to maintain. Their site doesn’t keep up with the growth and pace of their business. It’s important to make sure your company website is a tool for your marketing and sales departments, instead of overhead or just one more “to-do” obstacle for your staff to manage.
We invite you to browse through our updated portfolio and tell us what you think.

11 Mar, 2008
Posted by: Joe
Posted in: Durrani News, MIVA Merchant
Our preferred shopping cart of choice has always been MIVA Merchant. We develop and
support several other carts, but if we are building an e-commerce site from scratch or have the option of switching a client over, we use MIVA Merchant. MIVA is much easier to configure and customize and getting a site launched is faster. MIVA is also very expandable for the future growth of an online business.
Last year we designed and constructed a completely new MIVA 5.0 storefront for our client, Walleye Direct (www.walleyedirect.com). We’ve watched Walleye grow from a side-job dream idea to a full-time business with sales rolling in every day. We continue to manage the Walleye MIVA website and also provide SEO optimization and marketing.
We’re exited that WalleyeDirect.com was this months featured MIVA site in the MIVA Merchant Galleria.
Click here for the complete interview with Walleye owner Jesse Ness. And for some fresh Walleye fish from the brisk rivers of Canada, visit www.walleyedirect.com.
1 Feb, 2008
Posted by: Joe
Posted in: Durrani News
Our new Durrani vinyl window signs are up! Our graphic design services don’t just end with website and print. We provide sign design and printing services to clients and recently finished the window decal signs for our own Encinitas, CA office located right on Highway 101.
4 Jan, 2008
Posted by: Joe
Posted in: Durrani News
In December, we were notified by the San Diego Mayor’s Office that we had been awarded the project to perform photography services for the City of San Diego Think Blue Water Pollution Prevention Campaign. Many of Durrani’s clients are in the surf and skate industry and several members of our staff are avid surfers, so we are excited to be involved and working with the city to help promote clean water and protect our beaches, coastlines and surf spots. Our staff photographers can’t wait to get out into the local beaches and capture the nature, people and scenic views that make San Diego County such a great place to live.
The images below are some of the photography that we submitted to the city to win this bid. All photos were taken by staff photographer and managing partner, Joe McDonald. Click on the collage to view the slideshow.
17 Dec, 2007
Posted by: Joe
Posted in: Durrani News
Happy Holidays from the entire crew at Durrani Design!
Our custom Durrani holiday greeting cards are finished and in the mail! We wanted to send out the traditional holiday card to our clients but also wanted an excuse to flex our creative mind. As a graphic design agency, we always try to remember that everything we design is a potential marketing piece. Aside from the obvious happy holiday message and thank you that we wish to extend to all our clients, we also want clients to see our holiday card and be inspired to call upon us for their design and marketing needs.
The card was a square cut 5″x5″ that folded in half vertically. We took it one step further and matched it with a custom fitting green translucent envelope so the card design showed through. And to top it off, we added a custom printed photo stamp from Stamps.com with the Durrani “D” logo and green ~tilda.
We’re proud of the custom graphic design work we do and hope clients get excited about the possibilities for their business.
Wishing you and yours a happy holiday season!
Card Cover

Card Inside

20 Nov, 2007
Posted by: Joe
Posted in: Durrani News
We use several different sources of pictures for our web and print design projects. If we don’t take the actual photos ourselves, then we rely on stock photo sites like iStockPhoto.com. iStock also let’s you upload your designs that used elements from their site for review and critique. Jett, one of our designers, frequently uploads his design “mockups” and our most recent design is the featured Design spotlight of the week. The design is a proposed website mockup for Courtside Restaurant and Catering in San Clemente, CA.
View their website design Before & After photos.