Taking Our Clients' Websites to the Next Level
Spiritual Progressives.org
Rabbi Michael Lerner has been editing Tikkun Magazine for 25 years and building a network of like-minded people who share his vision. We redesigned the NSP website. Now it's powered by WordPress so that a team of activists can add content and keep it fresh.
WilliamGlasner.com
William Glasner makes gorgeous, one-of-a-kind, hand carved art glass beads. We made an e-commerce site as beautiful as his beads. Now people who bought from him at festivals or shows and have received a million compliments on their jewelry can come back and buy gifts for their friends.
RinereLaw.com
The law offices of Joseph C. Rinere and Joseph D. Rinere can now be found on the internet. For less than the price of a yellow-pages ad for a month, they are on the web all year round with a site that gives more information than the yellow pages ever could.
KatlynnMarine.com
This is one of the most dramatic website makeovers we've ever seen or done. Working with designer Julie White of Miller White design, we brought this site from a late-90s clip art pastiche(it was probably quite advanced at the time!) to something quite lovely.
Hogan's Hideaway
This local restaurant has a great menu, with lots of specials shown on their chalkboard each day. Designer Dave Pronko of Steel Horse Studios used that theme and we developed the site so that they folks at Hogan's can log in to update their menu online whenever they want to.
RochesterCares
RochesterCares was really ready for the next level. It used to be that people registered for their projects by sending an email to a project coordinator, who spent a lot of time cutting and pasting names and emails into lists, and maybe managed to remind volunteers as the date approached. After the project another volunteer took the sign-up sheets and input the data into the access database which resided in that volunteer's home. Now, after we worked our magic, any volunteer can sign up online for a project, sign up their family members, or cancel a signup. The website makes it easy for the project coordinator to print off the list of those who are signed up, to send emails to the group, to record the impact of the project and thank those who helped. Volunteers can choose what areas they're interested in and receive emails about projects in that area. They can also track their volunteer hours online.
Friends of Educational Excellence
FREEPartnerships.org is a nonprofit with a vision for helping Rochester school children. We designed a site to help get their message out there. Lots of plans in the works for helping volunteers in the schools...
Richmond Memorial Library
The public library in Batavia, NY was ready for a facelift. We created a new logo for them, with a jazzy looking site, enriched by live feeds of book of the day and a huge set of email newsletters patrons can prove from. The library staff maintains the site themselves. Coming soon: animated banners on the homepage to highlight certain library offerings.
Genesee Construction
This local construction firm builds beautiful buildings and now they have a beautiful website to show them off.
Arrow Kitchens
We updated this site several years ago, but whenever we revisit it to make a few changes, we're impressed with how good it still looks.
North Coast Writers
These ladies had a beautiful website designed by a designer new to website work. Problem was, the graphics were very heavy, like a megabyte per page. We were able to cut that to 1/3 of the original level without sacrificing any of the luscious look. And it's more search-engine friendly and handicapped accessible than before.
Cool Rochester
What would happen if 40,000 households reduced their carbon footprint by 10,000 pounds in Rochester? That would be a billion pounds! What would it take for that to happen? A great organization of pro-active folks who believe that if we all work together to encourage each other to take steps, that together we can achieve something important. The website for CoolRochester.org makes it possible for people to calculate their carbon footprint, track their progress in reducing it and join teams for friendly "co-opetition".
Project Homeless Connect Rochester
Rochester is joining the movement begun in San Francisco to bring cities together to care for the homeless. The website for the Rochester chapter will permit volunteers to register and provides a backend database of service providers so the volunteers putting the project together can keep track of who's doing what and who's talking to whom. We're the new kids on the block, but we think we have the best logo (thanks to Melissa Boyack of Browncroft Creative) and the nicest looking website of all the Project Homeless Connects.
Bowling Distributor
The folks at Bowling Distributor wanted to offer every bowling product on the planet. That's a lot of products! Can you spell database? Their catalog is a large and ever-changing database. Customers can create accounts, choose their passwords and usernames. Staff can track orders through the backend and make changes to the catalog, put items on special, control how the specials are displayed.
Lucinda's Wood Cake Boxes
Lucinda Ebersole is one of the world's best cooks, and she makes these insanely great cakes. What's her secret? Wood cake boxes. Is she willing to share? She is, on a simple but gorgeous site, all decked out with ecommerce. Send her one of your favorite recipes.
North Tonawanda Public Library
The North Tonawanda Public Library wanted an attractive website to reach out to their public. They've gotten lots and lots of compliments. They like the database driven calendar that their staff can maintain.
The 2000 Year Road to the Holocaust
We designed the website for this interfaith study course. Registration was accepted online. The large faculty for the class can peruse the database to learn about registrant’s backgrounds and experiences. Readings are available to logged in registrants, as is access to a blog where class members can share thoughts between classes. Class organizers can email either the faculty or the entire class, and emails carry the logo and design elements of the class, while preserving privacy of email addresses.
Henrietta Public Library
Henrietta hadn't maintained their website for two years before they contracted with us for webmaster services. Now each of the librarians updates her page monthly, telling patrons what's new.
Large parts of the local history collection has been put on line, in searchable databases. One part of the collection gives burial records from all of the cemeteries in Henrietta. Another part gives copies of obituaries collected for Henrietta residents since the fifties. Newspaper articles about Henrietta politics are also indexed. The oral history collection is online, with audio files and transcripts.
Registration for library programs is all online now, available 24/7. A monthly ezine bringing updates on programs and new materials to patrons in-boxes.
Gargoyle Magazine
This literary magazine has been publishing poetry, fiction, art and interviews with writers for many years. We are gradually putting the archives online, with a new format which highlights some of the sensational artwork that has graced its covers over the years.
We've added ecommerce so that all the books and journals can be purchased directly from the website. And we've provided links to Amazon to help readers find out of print volumes.
Eve Botelho, fiber artist
Eve does gorgeous machine embroidered lanscapes. She had a website, but she wasn't happy with its look, so we redesigned it, added her recent works and are working with her to keep it updated.
League of Women Voters
It's a simple site, but it's kept up to date, and we've added online payment for membership, donation and special events. We're happy to support this venerable organization in the Rochester area.
Linear Programming
Retired Professor Doris Grosh had spent years teaching linear programming and had a great set of notes which people always encouraged her to turn into a text-book. She did and she's been selling it on the internet while she looks for a publisher. We designed the site for her.