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<title>Quality ceramics website development based on our exclusive design</title>
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<p>We’re excited to present one of our latest works: new <strong>exclusive website designed</strong> for Artekeramiko, a contemporary ceramic artist whose work balances art, material, and form. Each piece is a sculpture, and from the start, we knew that web design had to fully reflect that sensibility.</p>
<p>We crafted an elegant and understated visual website design using clean typography, generous negative space, and a layout that puts the artwork in front and center. The navigation is developed to be smooth and intuitive, and entire interface conveys calm, balance, and quality. Visiting the website feels like walking through an online gallery.</p>
<div class="ic"><img src="https://www.smooth-step.com/images/content/blog-en.jpg" width="692" height="804" scrset="/images/content/blog-en_size_w1038_h1206.jpg 1.5x, /images/content/blog-en_size_w1384_h1608.jpg 2x" alt="Sophisticated and elegant design for contemporary ceramics website" class="noborder" /></div><p data-end="373" data-start="76">A key aspect of this web design project is proper <strong>photography</strong> integration: we worked with high-quality images, carefully selected and processed to showcase the texture, volume, and light of each piece. These images are not only seamlessly integrated into the design but also serve as the heart of the site's visual journey.</p>
<p data-end="629" data-start="375">From a technical standpoint, the website is <strong>developed based on WordPress</strong>, fully responsive, and features an optimized caching system that ensures fast loading times even with rich visual content. It’s a solid foundation designed for growth and easy management.</p>

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<pubDate>24 Jun 2025 13:01:00 +0200</pubDate>
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<title>Minimalist Business Card Design for Artekeramiko ceramic brand in Malaga</title>
<link>https://www.smooth-step.com/design/business-cards/artekeramiko</link>
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<p>At Artekeramiko ceramics studio in Malaga, Costa del Sol - every piece speaks... and so do their business cards.</p>
<p>We have prepared a vertical <strong>business card design</strong> - serene, and minimalist format-where white breathes and black draws. The logo, featuring two opposing fish above the initials AK, captures the symbolic soul of a brand that creates with intention.</p>
<p>We chose a clean, vertical design in black and white that reflects the brand's minimalist essence.<br />The fish, facing opposite directions, symbolize balance, flow, and the symbolic connection that defines artisanal work.</p>
<div class="ic"><img src="https://www.smooth-step.com/images/content/biz-02.jpg" width="692" height="429" scrset="/images/content/biz-02_size_w1038_h644.jpg 1.5x, /images/content/biz-02_size_w1384_h858.jpg 2x" alt="Elegant and modern business card design for Artekeramiko, artistic project in Málaga, Berlin" class="noborder" /></div><p>The contact details are placed discreetly on the back, aligned with the brand's restrained and thoughtful aesthetic.</p>
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<pubDate>27 May 2025 14:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
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<title>A unique logo design for Artekeramiko artistic ceramics studio in Malaga</title>
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<p>We have <strong>designed this logo</strong> for ArteKeramiko ceramics studio. Graphic design is prepared according to their visual identity, they wanted it to reflect everything that inspires and defines this project of contemporary ceramic art - both artistic and functional.</p>
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<div class="ic"><img src="https://www.smooth-step.com/images/content/logo-01.jpg" width="692" height="429" scrset="/images/content/logo-01_size_w1038_h644.jpg 1.5x, /images/content/logo-01_size_w1384_h858.jpg 2x" alt="Logo design for Artekeramiko — Málaga, Berlin" class="noborder" /></div>
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<pubDate>20 May 2025 11:32:00 +0200</pubDate>
<category>Logo design</category>
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<title>New IMS Mortgages website development based on our exclusive design in Costa del Sol</title>
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<p>Happy new year 2025. Here is another addition to our portfolio. We were contacted by one of our existing clients - IMS Mortgages Company situated in Costa del Sol - to upgrade their content driven website dedicated to advice on mortgages in Spain. We have prepared a completely new <strong>exclusive website design</strong> according to latest standards and developed it in latest HTML5 and PHP based on <strong>Wordpress backend</strong>.</p>
<p>New website features a modern header design with drop down navigation menu, phone and email contact options, animated slideshow with integrated mortgage calculator, followed by well-organized content in 2 and 3 column structures, highlight of their most important services, latest articles section with photos and brief descriptions, ask a question contact form on all pages and footer with highlights, contact details and social media links.</p>
<div class="ic"><img src="https://www.smooth-step.com/images/content/ims-mortgages-website-redesign-blog.jpg" width="692" height="920" scrset="/images/content/ims-mortgages-website-redesign-blog_size_w1038_h1380.jpg 1.5x, /images/content/ims-mortgages-website-redesign-blog_size_w1384_h1840.jpg 2x" alt="New responsive website design and development for IMS Mortgages company based in Costa del Sol" class="noborder" /></div><p>All other content pages have been redesigned as well adapting them to the new multi-column structure. Website comes with two templates, one with bigger header with the calculator and another with compact one designed for contact page.</p>
<p>Website is optimized to work well on all different browsers and screen sizes including tablets and mobiles. Responsive <strong>mobile version</strong> has a different menu design which opens from the side, smaller header, expandable mortgage calculator section and content optimized for both horizontal and vertical mobile screens. IMS mortgages website is also highly optimized for <strong>SEO on Google organic search</strong> results. With years on content optimization and positiong work it ranks very well on different competitive keywords in top 10 search results.</p>

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<author>contact@smooth-step.com (SmoothStep Web Design)</author>
<pubDate>15 Jan 2025 13:34:00 +0200</pubDate>
<category>Web design</category>
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<title>Resales Online Ajax API integration to SmoothStep Real Estate Website Software</title>
<link>https://www.smooth-step.com/products/real-estate-software/resales-online-ajax-api</link>
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We have just unrolled our <strong>Wordpress</strong> based <strong>Real Estate website software</strong> update to support Resales Online Ajax API V6. Their new V6 API version design offers compact JSON output which makes it run much faster compared to standard XML as XML data is bulkier, it takes longer to download and decode by <strong>website hosting server</strong>.</p>
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<p>Apart of dynamically loaded properties from Resales Online network our software allows adding exclusive <strong>real estate listings</strong> to be added directly to the website in Wordpress admin - property section.</p>
<p>These exclusive properties have the same design as Ajax API properties and are developed to be shown above Resales Online listings in search results.</p>
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<p>Our Ajax API integration is fully <strong>SEO friendly</strong>, each dynamic property is listed with its unique URL web address. Property listings are designed to be SEO friendly as well, with static URLs for listings by area and property type.</p>
<p>Both real estate listings and individual property pages are equipped with automatic SEO titles to make sure that they are all indexed by search engines.</p>
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<p>SmoothStep Real Estate software is designed with multilingual support in mind. All property search data is imported in required languages. Resales Online data is available in 14 languages in total.</p>

<div class="cl"></div><div class="col2 first"><p>Our real estate software is <strong>developed</strong> to provide additional speed by caching real estate listings and details data for certain amount of time, very important to prevent website slowdown when there are many repetitive requests when website is being indexed by different search engines, such as Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and others.</p>
<p>When running using our Ajax API implementation website takes less space on the sever compared to property import as full-size real estate photos are loaded directly from Resales Online CDN server. When smaller property photo sizes are required we have developed dynamic photo resizing - our server downloads the required photos and resizes them on the fly for correct display on the website.</p>
</div><div class="col2"><p>Websites build on Resales Online Ajax API also consume less hosting server CPU resources because searches are performed on Resales Online server. Such real estate websites are easier to build therefore their development price is reduced. The downside is that for order search to work real estate agency needs active Resales Online account.</p>
<p>Test SmoothStep Real Estate software on a working website: Our latest Real Estate software version is already running in 3 languages on a client website, they are using third party server which is not very fast (on our <strong>web hosting server</strong> real estate engine runs around 3-4 times faster), however you can test it here:&nbsp;<strong>realestatemijas.com</strong></p>
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<author>contact@smooth-step.com (SmoothStep Web Design)</author>
<pubDate>25 Oct 2024 15:06:00 +0200</pubDate>
<category>Real estate software</category>
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<title>Real estate website design for agency in Mijas with online marketing support</title>
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We have been contacted by Bona Fide Costa real estate agency in Mijas to design and <strong>develop a new real estate website</strong> based on Wordpress according to their design and <strong>SEO marketing</strong> specifications.</p>
<p>Different versions of the design were presented to the agency and once approved website was developed based on our latest <strong>Wordpress based real estate software</strong> orignally equipped with fully automated Resales Online XML feed importer with multilingual and mobile/tablet support. Recently we have upgraded the website to use <strong>Resales Online Ajax API</strong> property search service instead.</p>
<div class="ic"><img src="https://www.smooth-step.com/images/content/real-estate-mijas-website-med2.jpg" width="692" height="950" scrset="/images/content/real-estate-mijas-website-med2_size_w1038_h1425.jpg 1.5x, /images/content/real-estate-mijas-website-med2_size_w1384_h1900.jpg 2x" alt="Real Estate Mijas exclusive website design and development based on Wordpress" class="noborder" /></div><p>Website features our <strong>exclusive design</strong>, header with animated text, different real estate sections with scrolling animation, two different property search panels on website header, static SEO marketing pages with mixed content and property listings and much more. All website elements are <strong>optimized for mobile and retina</strong> screens.</p>

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<author>contact@smooth-step.com (SmoothStep Web Design)</author>
<pubDate>27 Aug 2024 12:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
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<title>Real estate website design and development optimized for US market</title>
<link>https://www.smooth-step.com/web-design/portfolio/realties-abroad-real-estate</link>
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<p>Realties Abroad website is <strong>designed to offer real estate</strong> in Europe and other areas for American clients. We were instructed to develop their new real estate website with multiple XML property feed import in different currencies and an advanced property search in US dollars. Fully automated real estate import and currency conversion rates are designed to update daily every morning.</p>
<div class="ic"><img src="https://www.smooth-step.com/images/content/realties-abroad-real-estate-blog.jpg" width="692" height="900" scrset="/images/content/realties-abroad-real-estate-blog_size_w1038_h1350.jpg 1.5x, /images/content/realties-abroad-real-estate-blog_size_w1384_h1800.jpg 2x" alt="Real estate website designed for American company" class="noborder" /></div><p>Website is based our exclusive design and custom web development based on Wordpress and our proprietary <strong>real estate software</strong>. We have implemented many <strong>modern web design features</strong> such as automatic real estate slideshow based on which properties are in featured category, property photo galleries with modern full screen preview, real estate search with price range selector and expandable advanced search feature where it is possible to filter properties by their features, as well as animated content in multiple columns, 3 column sticky navigation menu, Google maps integration, different contact forms and many others - All <strong>optimized for mobile and tablet screens</strong>.</p>

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<author>contact@smooth-step.com (SmoothStep Web Design)</author>
<pubDate>02 Oct 2023 10:27:00 +0200</pubDate>
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<title>Upgraded website design for real estate project managers in Marbella</title>
<link>https://www.smooth-step.com/web-design/portfolio/mdci-website-upgrade</link>
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<p>Company MDCI Spain offers project management services for luxury real estate construction in Marbella and other areas in Costa del Sol. We were hired to upgrade their old website using two <strong>customized Wordpress templates</strong> of their choice – One for website header and other for the content.</p>
<p>Combining the two themes is a challenging task due to their different frameworks and Wordpress admin settings. We love challenges and after <strong>web development</strong> works were completed the resulting website looks much better compared to the old site and the two chosen Wordpress themes.</p>
<div class="ic"><img src="https://www.smooth-step.com/images/content/new-mdci-website-blog.jpg" width="692" height="948" scrset="/images/content/new-mdci-website-blog_size_w1038_h1422.jpg 1.5x, /images/content/new-mdci-website-blog_size_w1384_h1896.jpg 2x" alt="Upgraded real estate project management website designed for a company in Marbella" class="noborder" /></div><p>Website features a <strong>modern web design</strong> with header and content animations, scrolling and hover effects for various sections displaying their management services, testimonials, project portfolio as well as contact forms and direct call from <strong>mobile devices</strong> .</p>

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<pubDate>15 Feb 2023 12:27:00 +0200</pubDate>
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<title>Real estate website redesign adding Milenio Plus XML feed support</title>
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<p>During second upgrade we have redesigned website header, implemented featured slideshow and a more modern search system which updates available property type and other dropdown values depending on chosen area. In previous update we have extended the site with our Wordpress based <strong>real estate software</strong> which handles extra fields and automatic XML feed import.</p>
<div class="ic"><img src="https://www.smooth-step.com/images/content/oso-real-estate-redesign.jpg" width="692" height="359" scrset="/images/content/oso-real-estate-redesign_size_w1038_h538.jpg 1.5x, /images/content/oso-real-estate-redesign_size_w1384_h718.jpg 2x" alt="Property OSO website redesign with a new real estate search system" class="noborder" /></div><p>All the fields from MilenioPlus XML feed were mapped to existing fields on the website so property search would keep working. All the extra fields such as property features are handled by our real estate software which enables third column when editing each property in <strong>Wordpress administrator</strong>. On the frontend these fields are listed in multiple columns with mobile and tablet support.</p>

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<pubDate>17 Jun 2022 18:33:00 +0200</pubDate>
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<p>During second upgrade we have redesigned website header, implemented featured slideshow and a more modern search system which updates available property type and other dropdown values depending on chosen area. In previous update we have extended the site with our Wordpress based <strong>real estate software</strong> which handles extra fields and automatic XML feed import.</p>
<div class="ic"><img src="https://www.smooth-step.com/images/content/oso-real-estate-redesign.jpg" width="692" height="359" scrset="/images/content/oso-real-estate-redesign_size_w1038_h538.jpg 1.5x, /images/content/oso-real-estate-redesign_size_w1384_h718.jpg 2x" alt="Property OSO website redesign with a new real estate search system" class="noborder" /></div><p>All the fields from MilenioPlus XML feed were mapped to existing fields on the website so property search would keep working. All the extra fields such as property features are handled by our real estate software which enables third column when editing each property in <strong>Wordpress administrator</strong>. On the frontend these fields are listed in multiple columns with mobile and tablet support.</p>

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<pubDate>02 Apr 2022 14:14:00 +0200</pubDate>
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