RichardYoungMagic.com Blog Add On

January 10, 2008 Website Portfolio 1 Comment

Project Name: RichardYoungMagic.com/blog/
Launch Date: January 2008
Project Type: Blog Add On

Welcome a new blog to the blogsphere!  Richard Young had been thinking about adding a blog to his website for a while and decided to add it this year.  Richard purchased our Blog Add on service to have us set up and design a blog to match his existing website.  He’s already begun adding posts to his blog - you can visit his blog at RichardYoungMagic.com/blog/

RipTideSystems.com Website Design

November 10, 2007 Website Portfolio No Comments

Project Name: RipTideSystems.com
Launch Date: November 2007
Project Type: Website Design & Graphics Work 

RipTideSystems.com is an informational site for existing and potential clients of RipTide Systems, a network services and solutions company based in Temecula, California.  Dave and Vickie Walker, the owners of RipTideSystems.com, wanted a very professional “technology” look for their site.  We used RipTide’s existing logo and designed the site around it. 

Pictures can say so much with any words and in RipTide’s case, high quality images of cutting edge technology hardware, the logos of their partner software companies and photographs of their office immediately and visually convey the high level of professionalism of the company.  We also created an award badge for the home page of the site to commemorate their nomination as Small Business of the Year in 2007 in the Temecula area.

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NorthPoleStation.com - Website Design, Development & Graphics

November 9, 2007 Website Portfolio No Comments

Project Name: NorthPoleStation.com
Launch Date: November 2007
Project Type: Website Design & Graphics Work 

NorthPoleStation.com is one of our own websites that has been in the works for some time.  The site offers printable Christmas stationary (yes, it is misspelled - I’ll explain later) such as greeting cards, gift tags, letters, and a Letters from Santa Claus Kit. 

This is a seasonal site and we wanted it to have a happy “Christmassy” feel to it.  Soft blues, snow, custom graphics of Santa’s village make this a somewhat “childish” and friendly friendly site.  Because it displays so many graphics we kept the design very, very simple. 

We decided to try out another payment processing system on this site, in this case, PayDotCom.com, which offers payment processing using paypal with a built-in affilate system.  We programmed a custom digital delivery system to work with the PayDotCom.com system.  After the visitor makes their purchase through PayPal and PayDotCom, a page is automatically created for their purchase that lists all of their download files.  The files are not accessible through any page but the download page and it can only be accessed using a valid PayPal transaction number.  The site administrator can review all of the purchases, regenerate the download link if the visitor loses their link or PayDotCom fails to complete the transaction.

All of the stationary on the site was custom designed by our graphics designer and set up as PDF and editable word files depending on the type of stationary.

This site was designed to attract search engine traffic using popular keywords for Christmas stationary.  That’s why stationary is misspelled.  The correct spelling for writing materials is stationery but the majority of Internet visitors misspell it.  That’s what they search for so that’s how we had to spell it.  To make a long story short, the entire site was written from the ground up to match keywords obtained from the Google Keyword Suggestion tool. 

All the work paid off handsomely.  The site was launched on November 9th, 2007.  Within 2 days it was fully indexed by Google.com and within the week appearing on the first page of search results of the various keywords it was designed for.  By week two it was getting 1,000 visitors a day, with over 80% coming from Google.com, peaking at 2,300 visitors on December 24th.  Visitors purchased kits right up until Christmas Day, with one visitor purchasing a kit the day after Christmas. 

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24kVintageArt.com

November 30, 2006 Website Portfolio No Comments

Project Name: 24kVintageArt.com
Launch Date: November 2006
Project Type: Design, Development & Programming

24kVintageArt.com brings paper prints and postcards from bygone eras to high-resolution life with the help of cutting-edge digital scanning and imaging technology. These images are available for viewing in online galleries, or are reproduced as printable greeting cards, desktop wallpapers, clip art, canvas transfers, mugs and other gift and decor items.

This is one of our own web site development projects which was launched in November 2006.  It features:

• Static image galleries to attract visitors
• A Christmas Countdown script written in PHP
• Membership site with free and paid membership subscriptions
• Graphics work on restorations and enhancements
• Custom order form and processing system for personalized jewelry boxes
• Downloadable high resolution greeting cards in PDF format
• Custom Headers and graphics design elements
• Matching blogs on Blogspot.com and WordPress.com
• Matching design on CafePress
• Matching design on FinerWorks.com
• Matching design featuring vintage art from Art.com
• Custom eBooks & Graphics that can be downloaded

The site is currently in phase 1 of its development.  The phase 1 objective is to establish 24kVintageArt.com on search engines and to build up a free and paid subscription base.

Phase 2 is scheduled for mid 2007 and will include:

• Build out of CafePress store items
• Release of shopping cart for ordering prints, both framed and unframed
• Custom tile products based on the vintage images
• Marketing Campaign for the 2007 Christmas season

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LestersKaraoke.com

September 30, 2004 Website Portfolio No Comments

Project Name: LestersKaraoke.com
Launch Date: September 2004
Project Type: Design, Development & Programming

LestersKaraoke.com showcases the Karaoke DJ services of Lester Coultas.  Lester had a small website that was not getting the kind of response he wanted.  He wanted to be able to publish photos from his Karaoke shows and contests, publish his enormous catalog of Karaoke tunes, and promote his show locations around town.

With the exception of the DJ rabbit, we designed all of the site graphics, including the T.V. viewer. We also created a custom import/export system to pull his song lists from his digital library and print out his online catalog.

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