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KDS marketing, sales & business Solutions
www.kdsmarketingandsales.com
Sales & Marketing consulting agency for the tourism industry. KDS requested a site design based on the look and feel of their current printed brochure. We developed a simple and clean looking html site, with no flash, utilizing the logo and brochure colors - black, orange and white. The site took 2 weeks to built. (Built in 2007. Site closed 2010)
Resources: Templatebox.com, SXC.hu, Photoshop 7.0, Dreamweaver 8.

Indie-az.com
www.indie-az.com
A comprehensive show calendar for indie, emo, ska, punk & alternative bands performing in the metro Phoenix, Arizona area. This is a side project I undertook after noticing that nothing like this existed in the Phoenix area. The site took 5 days to build.
UPDATE: R.I.P. to the site. I had to give up working on the site unfortuantely for personal issues. It was fun while it lasted!
Resources: Templatebox.com, stockexpert, Photoshop 7.0, Dreamweaver 8.

Chris Knits - Original Designs by Chris Shield of Arizona
www.chrisknits.com
Chris Shield, a designer of hand-knitted one of a kind clothing and accessories, approached us with a need to improve the search engine optimization of her site. The current site was already submitted to major search engines and running PPC campaigns, but no metatags were written for better organic search ranking and positioning.

We researched other competitors optimization efforts and ran a keyword analysis of commonly used targeted keywords. Based on the results, we implemented metadata on her site for better search engine performance and submitted a Google sitemap.

Work time for this project was 5 hours. To view the .pdf report and overview, click here.
Resources: Dreamweaver 8, Google.

Kona Surf Adventures
www.konasurfadventures.com
My newest client for 08'! Kona Mike approached me for assistance with the management and maintenance of his site. Since he lived in Hawaii, he had a local company develop and design his site, but needed someone affordable to market and maintain it.

Currently, I'm making minor changes to his site at a low hourly fee, on an as needed basis. I also submitted his site to several search engines, listings and requested reciprocal links. Next steps are to add Google Analytics links and other Google tracking tools to review how well the site performs. Since adding these features, he's had several new bookings and leads in 2 days!
Resources: Dreamweaver 8, Express DB

Yoga Hale
www.yogahale.com
Another new client for 08'! This Yoga studio, located in Kailua-Kona in Hawaii's Big Island, had a website built and a new redesign started by a friend. But due to time constraints, the site was left unfinished. Yoga Hale contacted me with assistance on finishing up the site & improving their overall visibility online.

Since the new site was built last year, Yoga Hale expanded their business to add Yoga/Surf Retreats, Accommodations & is adding a new location!

The redesigned site was built with CSS stylesheets and .php. I finished up the work already started and tweaked the design a little, based on the customers recommendations. Added new pages as well, per the customers direction and revised and optimized content and images. (Built in 2008)
Resources: Dreamweaver 8, CSS, Photoshop.

Sea Hawaii Rafting
www.SeaHawaiiRafting.com
Sea Hawaii Rafting, located on Kailua-Kona on Hawaii's Big Island contacted me for help in driving traffic to their site. They already had a site done, but wasn't getting much interest and very little phone calls to their buisiness from people who found them online. They were a referred by two of my clients, and having seen the success on their sites, they contacted me for my expertise in helping them market and increase the their visibility online. I reviewed their site content, and got to work adding keyword rich content that visitors would use when searching for boat tours and vacation ideas in Hawaii. I also worked on registering their site on various free listing sites such as yelp.com, tripadvisor.com and more. In less then 2 weeks, the phones started ringing at their business from visitors who stumbled on their site after finding them on the internet. Web traffic continues to increase and more calls are flowing in from people who found them online!

UPDATE: In 2009, I was asked to redesign their website. For the new site, I used a template to utilize the gorgeous ocean pics they had and made it more attractive to wide -screen monitor users. We also expanded the number of pages they had by creating a new photo gallery. Also, during the redesign process, the new site allowed us to add more targeted keywords to help perform better in search engines. (Redesign in 2009)
Resources: Dreamweaver 8, Free CSS Templates, SXC.hu

 

ML + Associates
www.mlainteriors.com
ML + Associates is an interior design firm servicing the greater Los Angeles area including Hollywood & Beverly Hills and also has an office in Shanghai, China. ML + Associates approached us with a need for a website to help generate leads and business, in this tough economy. Their original site was a simple text based 1 page site with just the name of the company and content info. We expanded that with a clean, fresh design that matched ML + Associates own particular style. We used a widescreen template design to showcase the beautiful, professionally developed images of their work. The website is still a work in progress, but as you can see, we've added loads of pages and content with targeted and relevant keywords to help generate leads from potential clients. (Built in 2009)
Resources: Dreamweaver 8, Flash, Free CSS Templates

Grasshopper Silk Studio
www.GrassHopperSilk.com
Grasshopper Silk Studio approached me to create a more updated site, as the artist & owner Sandy Hopper, was getting more recognition in her home state for the art she was exhibiting. Her old site was using Front Page and had alot of pages of content and products for showcasing. Using her old site as a guide, I created main navigation links for her products and used a widescreen hero graphic to showcase her art work. There is also subnavigation highlighting the artists bio, her exhibits and events and studio location. This was the first website I built with an online store. The shopping cart we used was through PayPal only, and was relativly easy to build and implement. This was also the first time I've applied an Ajax script to a site. The script worked out wonderfully creating a cool image gallery effect that showcased her beautiful hand painted designer wear collection.

The site took 2.5 weeks to built and another 1.5 weeks for site optimization. (Built in 2009)
Resources: Dreamweaver 8, Photoshop CS3, Lightbox Ajax, Free CSS Templates & Snacktools

Further Chiropractic
www.FurtherChiropractic.com
New Client for 2010! Further Chiropractic was looking to optimize their old site for better search engine performance, but then decided to redesign the whole site to give it a new look as well as getting the optimization built into it. The new site was built to be simple, more functional and informative to help out his growing chiropractic business in the Phoenix metro area. The old site had a page depth of about 7 pages, we doubled the page sizes, moved over the content he had on his blog to his new site and utilized best practices in optimizing and building the site. The search engines are starting to slowly crawl the site and is indexing really well on keywords related to his business and it's location. Slowly working on building links to his site from similiar buisinesses, to help improve his search engine rankings.

The site took 1 week to build and another 2.5 weeks for site optimization (Built in 2009 & launched in 2010)
Resources: Dreamweaver 8, Photoshop CS3, Free CSS Templates