www.pri-us.com

Project Remedies, Inc. – Pacific Palisades, CA

Completed: July - September 2007

Technical Documentation

Project Remedies provides the only IT governance suite available on Remedy. We just finished updating the User Guide for two of their project management applications: ActionProgram Manager and IT Project Portfolio Manager.

www.herinc.org

Hormone Education & Research

New Website Development

We are developing this website in partnership with the artist, Chloe Hedden, who is doing the graphic design.

H.E.R. is a non-profit organization dedicated to public outreach on the latest scientific findings in women's hormone research.

The site is currently under development. The first phase was completed in July 2007, when we created the initial "placeholder" page to support H.E.R.'s grant applications.

The applications were approved, and we are now working on the scope of Phase II, which includes information pages about the organization, the first hormone research pages, and the initial FAQ. We are working closely with Chloe and the client so that the graphic design complements and supports the site's information design. Usability is our top priority. Navigation and page design will help users find what they need easily without knowing complicated medical terminology. The scientific research and analysis papers will be made available with links.

This will be an information-rich website, but the owner will be able to make routine updates without having to learn HTML.

www.appropriateresponse.com

An Appropriate Response – San Francisco, CA

Website Development

An Appropriate Response, founded by Pamela Weiss, is dedicated to helping people address the fundamental questions in their lives. Pam provides coaching and consulting based on the depth and richness of Buddhist teachings in conjunction. She came to us to resolve a challenging domain and hosting problem, and to give her a way to easily upload files, such as radio talks, without having to learn HTML.

The site is now securly hosted at csoft.net, which we like because they're Linux geeks like us. Csoft provides rock solid, secure hosting, and a rational development environment. They are not the most "user friendly" host out there, but the linux environment and security is worth it.

www.catslaircollection.com

Cat's Lair Collection – Moab UT

New Website Development

Cat's Lair Collection is a new art gallery in Moab, Utah. They are located behind the Moab Visitor's Center in McStiff's Plaza, at Main and Center. If you are passing that way, be sure to stop by; there is nothing else like it for hundreds of miles. This is a fine art gallery and gift shop featuring local, regional, and international artists. They carry beautiful and unique works of original art: jewelry, pottery, wood and metal work.

The gallery is a refreshing oasis of oritinal art on a Main Street of shops filled with souvenirs made in China. One entire wall of the gallery is devoted to nude paintings and pastels. In Utah!

We are developing the website for Cat's Lair Collection using our basic phased approach. We began with a simple home page and contact page, with minimal design, when the gallery first opened this past spring. Early in the summer we redesigned the site, and added a page listing all of the artists. In July we began adding artist galleries to highlight each artist and their work.

The images and descriptions are maintained in a simple spreadsheet table that can be edited in Excel. To add or modify the artist's collection, the table is edited, exported into a CVS file, and uploaded to the live website. The dynamic pages are created in HTML and PHP.

Cat's Lair Collection is owned by the jeweler, Olga Martinova. We sell Olga's jewelry on www.flameskimmers.com, our online store. It was easy to convert her jewelry pages on www.catslaircollection.com into online store order pages.

Gradually, over the next few months, we will be adding more artists and their works to the Cat's Lair Collection website, that can also be expanded easily into online order pages.

www.flameskimmers.com

Flameskimmers – Moab UT

Website and Online Store Development

This is our own site, featuring photo galleries of the desert landscape, writings about the west, and an online store with guidebooks, maps, unique jewelry, petroglyph art, and more.

www.thrilljockey.com

Thrill Jockey Records – Chicago IL

System Administration
& Programming

Thrill Jockey's server had not been rebooted in nearly a year, and was in serious need of some pruning and tuning.

We have performed numerous System Administration tasks, including:

• Upgraded ssh and the mail server
• Wrote backup scripts
• Cleaned up the filesystem
• Apache Config Updates
• Fixed error logging and permissions
• Set up and configured a testing instance for new application layout.
• Numerous other sysadmin tasks as needed

www.disabilitytraining.com

Program Development Associates – Syracuse NY

Completed: November 2006

Search Engine Optimization Research, Analysis, & Development

The new owner of this successful online store asked us for a report of the site's current search engine status. He needed to know how many sales were coming from his paid links. We used our own scripts to analyze the webserver's raw log files, and then set up the Google Analytics scripts account to give our client his own access to the AdWord Marketing and Conversion reports.

The results of our Search Engine Optimization research and analysis clearly showed that almost no paid links were resulting in sales. The owner used our report findings to fine-tune some AdWord campaigns and cancel others, and to make additional business planning decisions for the upcoming year.

Edge of the Cedars State Park Museum – Blanding UT

Website Business Strategy Consulting, Search Engine Optimization Research, Analysis, & Development

In September 2006, we were asked for website consulting by the Utah State Parks Marketing Team, which was mandated by the Governor to increase the State Parks' economic self-sufficiency, as well as their support of nearby local economies.

None of the team members had any experience with website development when we began this project. We proposed using one park as a prototype, to give the members of the marketing team, including the State Park Regional Manager, the chance to learn as much as possible while avoiding the potential risks of a large expensive project.

By the time we were done we'd made significant improvements to the SEO of ALL the park websites, coordinated several updates to the Edge of the Cedars State Park website, and provided the Regional Manager with reports and documentation about the park websites and their statistics. This information is now being used to develop state-wide changes to the State Park website system.

Read the Case Study for project details.

www.cnha.org

Canyonlands Natural History Association (CNHA) – Moab UT

Website business workflow consulting; Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Research, Analysis, & Development

CNHA supports the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), National Forest Service (NFS), and the National Park Service (NPS) parks and facilities in Southeastern Utah. We provided CNHA with the following SEO services to improve their search engine rankings:

• Keyword research, analysis, and development
• SEO Research Report and Recommendations
• New Content Development
• Workflow process analysis and recommendations
• Developed a Website Owner's Manual, which included a basic description of the site structure, logins, passwords, and documentation for the site's domain registrar, hosting, and statistics accounts, and step-by-step instructions on how to maintain the site with the webmaster.
• Created a draft redesign of the website using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) instead of tables for layout. Also provided recommendations for source code elements to support the SEO, such as adding ALT tags to all product images and links.

We advised CNHA that the best way to increase website traffic is via webcams. Their site already includes one webcam, which points towards the redrock cliffs and the Colorado River near Castle Valley. We recommended that they add another one – on the roof of the Arches National Park Visitor's Center. (CNHA runs the park gift shop.) The project was just approved by the NPS in December of 2006! Arches is one of the most popular national parks in the US; the webcam will be bookmarked by millions of people all over the world.

www.pawprintzpetboutique.com

PawPrintz Pet Boutique – Chicago IL

Online Store Maintenance & Search Engine Optimization

We use Dreamweaver to maintain this best-selling collection of over 1500 luxury pet products. This site is a lot of fun and you should check it out whether or not you have a pet of your own.

www.bluebuddhaboutique.com

Blue Buddha Boutique – Chicago IL

Website & Online Store Development

Chicago chain maille jewelry artist, Rebeca Mojica, maintains this site with the tools we gave her, with occasional boosts over the hard parts. She is beginning to expand her website into online sales, including do-it-yourself kits, and we are working with her to develop her store further.

www.desertveils.org

Desert Veils – Moab UT

Website Development & Graphic Design

Desert Veils is an American Tribal Style (ATS) belly dance tribe located in Moab Utah. These women are talented artists and their dancing is very beautiful and elegant; we have frequently seen their audiences moved to tears. This is not at all what you picture when you hear the words "belly dancing." To help set the record straight we wrote www.desertveils.org/dance.php">A Brief History of Belly Dancing" for the website.

www.okokok.org

OK OK OK Productions – Moab UT

Website Development & Training

Read the Case Study for details.

www.image-apparel.net

Image Apparel – Globe AZ

Website Development

Image Apparel provides commercial embroidery services to many high-visibility companies and organizations. We wanted to highlight their years of experience and the quality of their work, and we completely redesigned their website technically as well as visually. We also re-shot their customer logo samples for the gallery photographs.

www.surrealartstudio.com

Rick Showalter – Moab UT

Website Development

Rick Showalter is a canyonlands artist and graphic illustrator who is responsible for the illustrations and maps published by Canyon Country Publications. He needed a small gallery website to hightlight his recent work.

www.jfoottphotography.com

Jeff Foott – Jackson Hole WY & Castle Valley UT

System Administration & Programming

This is Jeff's original website, converted for a different host. The conversion proved to be quite a challenge, because of the dynamic coding, the large number of images, and the fact that all the paths were hard-coded to the original server.

www.neardeathnewbirth.com

Near Death New Birth

Website Development

This project was a little different.

Julia is a professional astrologer who specializes in working with people who have had a Near Death experience. Survivors are often very different after their ordeals, beyond what might be expected as a result of surviving such extreme trauma. Through her own personal experience, Julia has discovered that the natal horoscopes of Near Death survivors are "reset" to the date, place, and time of their experience.

Prior to working on this project we had very little experience with Astrology, but we recognize that this as an absolutely new and unique idea that deserves recognition.

www.archesrepaircenter.com

Arches Repair Center ̫ Moab UT

Website Development & Graphic Design

This was the first website we developed using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for page layout as well as design. We never looked back. We have not used an HTML TABLE to maintain a site's grid layout except where appropriate.