Philadesigns - Philadelphia Web Design and Marketing from Carl Franke in Philadelphia, PA

I am a web designer living and working in Philadelphia, PA specializing in:

Front End Design
Blogs
Small Business Web Sites

An alumni of Kutztown University, I designed my first web site back in 1998, after being self-taught at the University of Barnes & Noble (as I like to call it).

I design with Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, and Flash. I code sites with XHTML and CSS, using a little of JavaScript, Actionscript, and PHP, and try to always obey Web Standards as much as possible.

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9 Queens

Non-profit organization for chess awareness in urban youth.

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4300 Spruce

Re-habbed condominiums in the University City section of Philadelphia.

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Bargain Thrift Center

Thrift store in the Germantown section of Philadelphia.

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Campus Apartments - Columbia

Student housing in Columbia, Missouri.

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Cherry Hill Skating Center

Youth oriented roller skating facility in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.

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Meadowlake Apartments

Apartment complex in Downingtown, Pennsylvania.

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GMH Road Rally

Corporate team-building event in Delaware County. (Lots of unnecessary Flash, but as requested!)

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Art At Sophi

Art Gallery at 13th and Carpenter Streets in Philadelphia. (Now a yoga studio.)

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Elise Juska

Short story author and novelist.

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College Park

Student housing mangement and development company in Newtown Square, PA.

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Bella Vista

Apartment community in San Pablo, California.

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IP3

Developers of IP network solutions for use in networks that need to manage Visitor Based Networks.

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Palace Roller Skating Center

Roller skating facility in Philadelphia, PA.

Barrage Merchandise

Merchandise store for the Philadelphia Barrage outdoor men's lacrosse team.

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Edge At Avenue North

Student housing community for students of Temple University.

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GMH Capital Partners

Commercial real estate company in Newtown Square, PA.

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Campus Apartments

Off Campus Student Housing Provider.

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Jennifer Shahade

Professional gamesplayer and writer.

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Jazz Pancakes

Old experimental personal based on Flash experiments.

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Key Space

Blog design. Never used yet.

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I rarely take on many print design projects anymore, but spent many years in the past working on them.

CD Package Design for College Park Communities

T-Shirt Design for The Edge At Avenue North

Post Card Design for College Park Communities

Poster Design for College Park Communities

University Newspaper Ad Design for Shopbop.com

Newspaper Ad for College Park Communities

Post Card for College Park Communities

Ad for West Chester University Housing

9 Queens

Various logo designs for 9 Queens.

Rusty Dog

Various logo designs for Rusty Dog, a country-western band.

I am just a "point & shoot" guy that loves to take photos with my little Canon SD800IS. Just a hobby.

Go to my Flickr.com site to view all of my photos.

Below are the latest 20 added to my Flickr account.

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Video was my first creative love. Back in high school, I used to force my friends to act in goofy improvised skits.

Nowadays, I enjoy shooting bands and travels.

Go to my Vimeo.com site.

Go to my YouTube.com site.

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I started studying piano and tinkering with keyboards & synthesizers at the age of 22. My first keyboard was a Roland JX-8P, and my first drum machine was a Roland TR-707. Over the years, I've recorded dozens of instrumentals and songs with a Tascam PORTA-07, and later with the ease of Apple's Garageband software. Today, I enjoy using various soft synths, sampling with a Roland SP-555 and creating effects with a Korg KP3.

First Berries After Hibernation

In July of 2008, earSnake.com released my album entitled First Berries After Hibernation. This release contains 12 intrumentals of downtempo electronic soundscapes, recorded with various softsynths such as the Imposcar, Melotron, and Mini-Moog.

You can listen to songs from this album on my "music" based MySpace site.

Buy the album!

1997 - 2007

Below are my favorite instrumentals that I recorded between '97 and '07.

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Fill out the form below, and I'll get back to you quite fast. You'll be shocked.

You can also reach me at my MySpace.com site