Web Design and Development Portfolio

www.brigidpasulka.com

Brigid Pasulka is an award-winning short story writer. She has recently written and published her first novel, A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True, which weaves together two remarkable stories, re-imagining half a century of Polish history through the legacy of one unforgettable love affair.

As part of the promotion for her new novel, Brigid came to CCSEO wanting to create a search engine friendly site that maintained a fun, unique, and creative design. To enable Brigid to interact with her fans, and fans of Krakow, her site includes a blog and a section for fans to include their own stories.

In addition to promoting the sale of her new book, Brigid's site has an interactive companion map, which shows visitors pictures of locations from Krakow, Poland, found in the book. The map was customized for the site and uses Google Maps technology .

CCSEO collaborated with Creative Harvest on the design of this website.

www.vanwetzig.com

Van Wetzig, a native of Colorado, has offered massage therapy in the Fort Collins and Loveland areas for over 12 years. He has been a massage instructor for more than 11 years.

In order to better describe his services and give his practice a distinct brand on the web, Van came to CCSEO to update his one-page brochure website. With a simple navigation, and a few additional pages, Van's website now contains friendly introductions to his massage techniques, as well as a FAQ, testimonials, and a contact form. Van's new site is optimized to highlight critical search terms, and expose his services to potential clients.

To better leverage his local search visibility we also worked with Van to claim/set up his local business listings at the major search engines.

www.how-to-study.com

How-to-study.com is a free study skills resource website, offering students dozens of study skills articles in English and Spanish and study tips.

The authors of How-to-Study came to CCSEO to help revitalize their aging website. CCSEO provided a new website design to help re-organize this always growing site. In addition to the new design, we were able to improve upon SEO basics, web development practices, optimize for search terms, and build a custom content management structure. The new content management scheme has automated much of the publishing process for new articles and study tips, reducing maintenance costs considerably. CCSEO also modernized the How-to-Study site by including an article RSS feed, and a Study Skills Blog.

www.meridiangatekungfu.com

Meridian Gate Kung Fu Center is a local martial arts studio specializing in three forms of kung fu: Tai Chi , Tan Tui, and Hou Quan.

Lao Shi Yungeberg designed and built the original website himself, and in many ways it was working well for him.  While the initial design and content was appealing, Lao Shi realized that the site could be organized more effectively to improve the visitor experience, and it needed a search engine optimization strategy and implementation.

We didn't feel it was necessary to change the overall design of the site, since the styling and colors worked well and already complimented Meridian Gate's branding. The content was also comprehensive and well planned, needing little improvement. CCSEO's main goals were to rebuild the site, improve usability for both humans and search engines, and optimize for target search terms relating to Meridian Gate's services and specialties.

We also worked with Lao Shi to set up and optimize his local business listings to maximize local search traffic.

www.philomusica.com

Based in Fort Collins, Colorado, Philomusica is a European music school for children and adults. They offer a variety of music classes, group piano classes, and individual instrument lessons throughout the year, with a comprehensive summer music program.

Günter and Nicolette Bischof came to CCSEO in early 2008 wanting to improve their website's search engine rankings and traffic. After assessing their website's current visibility, evaluating search engine friendliness, and researching target search terms (keywords), CCSEO implemented SEO throughout the website. We did this with the minimal amount of cost and recoding possible to work within Philomusica's budget at that time. The project resulted in an 80% increase in web traffic and a 160% increase in search engine traffic.

Earlier this year, Philomusica decided to refresh their website and bring it in line with their other marketing materials and current branding. This gave CCSEO the opportunity to completely redesign and recode the website, further improving usability, search engine friendliness, and search engine optimization. As a result, at time of writing, Philomusica's overall web traffic has increased by an additional 3.5% and their search engine traffic increased by 23%. We expect this to improve further as the academic year gets underway.

CCSEO collaborated with Amanda Probst, JP Moran Design, Inc., and Kubatech Marketing on the design and presentation of this website.

www.isoldecortes.com

Isolde Cortés is a classically trained figurative sculptor who has lived in Italy, the United States and Colombia.

Isolde asked CCSEO to rebuild her outdated website, which was originally created using search engine unfriendly Flash. One of the main goals of the site rebuild was to significantly improve usability - the old Flash site was frustrating to navigate. The new website is not only much more usable than the old site, it is now updated with Isolde's newest sculptures, it allows for easy addition of new sculptures, and the site is also search engine friendly and optimized.

www.jeffjonesillustration.com

Jeff Jones Illustration specializes in custom and stock images and logo design.

Jeff Jones' web site was a challenge in that search engines don't get nearly as much information from images as they do from text. Additionally most programming for dynamic user activated thumbnail presentations, such as this, is not search engine friendly.

CCSEO overcame these issues by specifically creating a search engine friendly method of thumbnail/enlarged image presentation. We also added target search terms to optimize the code so that both search engines and users can identify, rank, and find illustrations based upon their related descriptions.

As a start-up website, Jeffjonesillustration.com made exceptionally fast progress. It was indexed and ranked in the major search engines within two weeks of going live.

CCSEO collaborated with the website owner and Illustrator, Jeff Jones, on the design of this website.

www.columbinesp.com

Columbine Specialty Products specializes in the manufacture of liquid retail, food service, and specialty products. They needed a modern, professional website that would work as both an online brochure and an effective web-marketing tool.

CCSEO created a search engine friendly and usable web site structure, making the website easy to navigate, and helping the search engines identify and rank the content. We detailed the company's large array of products and services, using a simple and consistent presentation, making it easy for their target audience to find what they are looking for.

The web site quickly gained first-page rankings in the major search engines for target terms, and it realized a corresponding and significant increase in conversions.

www.huntandersonoutfitters.com

Anderson Outfitters is a family owned hunting and fishing outfitter in South Dakota providing guided hunts for individuals, groups, families and corporations.

Clay Anderson came to us with a very clear idea of how he wanted his new web site to be, both for his potential customers as well as from a competitive perspective. He wanted a web site that would be informative, visual, and professional, with a very clean and usable presentation.

One of the most challenging aspects in the design and SEO of this web site is the incredible competition. Companies offering similar services may not have the most modern web sites, but they are all 100% involved in what they do, and their web visitors know exactly what they're looking for. Because we were launching this site into a saturated market, CCSEO had to make it stand out.

With abundant relevant content from Anderson Outfitters and a clear vision of what they wanted and what makes them stand out from the crowd, CCSEO was able to create an effective, optimized web site that began gaining traffic and ranking for target terms in a much shorter time than expected.

www.dredgemag.com

International Dredging Review is a print and online resource that provides dredging industry news and information. In addition to the print magazine articles and information, the web site includes a dredging forum, an online interactive version of IDR's dredge owner and operators directory, and a shopping cart.

We were first contacted by IDR to help resolve some major spam issues they were having with their forum. Once those were fixed we began working on other web site upgrades to improve look and feel, usability and conversion rates. Within a few months organic search traffic increased by 120%.

Dredgemag.com's content is updated using a content management system (CMS). This allows IDR to update the web site content themselves, keeping their web pages fresh and consistent with their print magazine updates.

www.centre4testing.co.uk

Centre4 Testing is a UK contract recruitment employment business dedicated to the software testing industry.

Centre4testing.co.uk was in need of an overhaul to update the site, create a more professional look and feel, increase usability and make the web site more search engine friendly.

CCSEO worked with Centre4 Testing to achieve these goals, creating a new web site design, designing a more usable web site structure, and implementing dynamically generated content to keep the web site pages fresh and engaging. The result, to date web site traffic has increased by 73%, and organic search traffic increased by 77%.

www.mrbox.co.uk

Mr Box offers a wide variety of storage and shipping containers for sale or hire with locations throughout the UK.

Mr Box's needs were straightforward - they wanted to significantly increase their search engine traffic. Initially, CCSEO provided search engine marketing expertise, managing and improving Mr Box's Pay-Per-Click (PPC) campaigns. Traffic increased by 80% in the first few months. CCSEO then worked on optimizing the web site for the search engines. The search engine optimization was so effective, Mr Box decided to drop their PPC advertising and rely on SEO only. Despite losing the PPC visitors, the effectiveness of the SEO not only gained the equivalent number of visitors, but also traffic continued to increase by an additional 36% over the following months.

In 2006, Mr Box decided to upgrade their web site look and feel and usability with a new structure and design. Their new search engine and user-friendly web site was launched in August 2006, and over the next few months their overall traffic increased by another 20%. Search engine traffic visitors increased by 25%.

www.abrfireplaces.com

ABR Fireplaces is a family owned company, based in Longmont Colorado, that specializes in indoor and outdoor fireplace installation and repair.

ABR needed a brochure web site that would give them a web presence, and provide their current and potential customers an opportunity to review their services.

They also wanted the web site to act as a catalogue to show the fireplaces offered by them through the manufacturers they work with.

Rather than duplicate detailed fireplace information already provided by the manufacturers, ABR chose to create an online catalogue with summaries, that link to the related manufacturer page.