Just wrapped up a really classy site for our friends over at Bello Salon (the best salon in Riverside!).
For this project, we really wanted to project a feeling of high-end sophistication and quality, to go along with the services the Bello offers. Another goal was to try and build a an community around the salon, for which we integrated not only a blog, but got them started using various social media to connect with their customers in whichever way works best for them.
Just about everyone familiar with Riverside knows the Canyon Crest Towne Centre - it’s a shopping institution, and a favorite destination for great food and weekend entertainment. We were recentely hired to redesign and redevelop the Towne Centre website (using content management, of course!). With this project, we really wanted to capture the unique aesthetic of the centre in their web design. The project also required an easily updatable Directory, and a Calendar of Events, all of which we were able to deliver.
We had the privledge recently of working with Marc Posch of Marc Posch Design on the new website for Jacobus Consulting. Jacobus is a player in the super-hot Healthcare IT sector, and it was time for their website to match the quality of services they provide. The site is completely content managed, so they are able to go in and make changes whenver and where they deem appropriate.
Another content-managed website to announce, this time for Riverside Construction Company. Frustrated with their previous web design experience, Riverside Construction came to us looking for a solution that would allow them to manage their own site without a lot of back-and-forth. Using a robust CMS platform, we were able to address their needs and get them up and running in very little time. Check out Riverside Construction Company today!
Another project from our backlog of updates, the City of Riverside recently hired us to do an interactive scaling, zooming, information-poping-up road construction map in Flash. This map is completely XML controlled, so they can update it on a moment’s notice (essential functionality for a City construction map). We don’t get the chance to do projects like this much anymore (flash applications are now in more limited demand in our sector compared with the past), but we love working with Flash when we get a chance and it’s appropriate for the project. Anyway, check out the map at the new City of Riverside Public Works site (click on Construction Projects in the sidebar):
Once again, I apologize for our limited blogging recently. Seems the web world is actually a pretty busy place these days!
Anyway, very briefly, we recently launched an interesting content-managed site for an interesting company, RORE Inc. Rore is an Environmental Engineering and Constructon company based out of San Diego. Like many construction and engineering-type companies, the challenge lies in making what they do understandable and interesting for a web user. Fortunatly for us, RORE is a lot more creative and innovative than a lot of their competition, so the web project turned out to be one of those good collaborative experiences that we love.
Over the past couple weeks, we’ve been working with our friends over at Privacywear to help reskin their website. The biggest new feature is a very dynamic new front page that pulls in some of the various different social media they are involved with. Overall, the new look is bigger and more modern and in general very sexy. Check out the new site here
Now, don’t get me wrong: I love corporate work. It is challenging, reliable, profitable and it’s nice dealing with companies who have things like, you know, accounting departments. However, every once it a while, it’s nice to work on a project that’s a little more fun.
The BellRays website was just that kind of project. For those of you unfamiliar with The BellRays, they are a world-famous punk/blues band headed up by the very cool Bob and Lisa Vennum. They needed a website that would make it easy to keep up with their fans, so in between European tours over the last few months, we’ve had the pleasure of working with Bob and Lisa on this cool new content managed website and web store.
Among other things, the new site gives them the ability to keep their gig calendar up to date, sell swag, offer a few mp3s for download, showcase their lyrics, and in general offer a lot of information about their long history and prolific catalog.
When we get a chance, we here at Frye / Wiles like to help our our local non-profits and community organizations. Not only does this make us feel fuzzy, but it is actually pretty good for business - a lot of my best networking opportunities come from in-kind donations to non-profits.
A lot of you know we handle the website for the Riverside Art Museum, and that we do the the print design and branding for Inland Agency’s Shop to Stop Breast Cancer annual event, and that we do the website for the I Survived Real Estate annual event (which is actually another breast cancer fundraiser - my family has lost women to breast cancer, so I try to do what I can to help).
Anyway, in between all that and, you know, making money, we recently managed to squeeze in a partial donation to a local Riverside neighborhood community organization called DANA (Downtown Area Neighborhood Alliance). DANA needed a way to keep members and the public in the loop and help organize events and meetings. After seeing the work we did for the Pick Group: Riverside Young Professionals, they asked us to build their site. And that we did! Click here to see the new DANA Riverside website. Enjoy!
We’ve been pretty busy over here lately, and a lot of new sites have launched. One that we are proud of is OctoClean.com
OctoClean is a franchising company - they enable people to become business owners by selling everything you need to start regional or local Janitorial and Cleaning company.
The OctoClean site (along with almost all the sites we do nowadays) needed to be maintainable by the client - their industry moves too fast to have to worry about having an outside company in the loop for adding new website content. Because of this, we set up their site using a really slick Content Management system, as well as an industry news blog that allows them to keep their franchise owners in the loop.
The OctoClean project has been very rewarding - they are an innovative, award-winning company, and we’re glad to see good brands coming out of the Inland Empire. Check out OctoClean’s new website today!
