Websites that Grow Your Business

Gardner Hathway LLC, a training and development consultancy, offers "strong on-site programs, management consulting, one-on-one coaching, and access to quality programs and materials".

Gardner Hathway came to us looking for a professional website that would stand out and shine above their competition. They choose an html template with a flash header designed by a template company, and we transformed this design into a full Joomla CMS template with an integrated flash header and navigation.

This site includes flash videos dropped into the text, a document download and management system, two customized forms, a high powered RSS feed extension, and a specialized hyperlink component that allows a user to create links between pages easier on the backend administrator.

Sun Powered Productions worked with a variety of other companies on this project, including Shaheen Productions who produced Gardner Hathaway's videos, and Z Studios who produced high quality photographs of James Lorenzen.

Independent Distributors of Electronics Association (IDEA) is the leading resource for independent distributors to find relevant quality information and to participate in advancing industry ethics, ensuring customer satisfaction, establishing standards, and promoting education.

We transfered and organized the content from an older content management system (CMS), Mambo, to a new site created with a more current Content Management System. The new site included transferring 700 registered users, more than 80 pages with various user access levels, product purchases made with PayPal, and nearly 100 links to articles in other websites.

With all the old content input into the existing site, IDEA's new content management system will allow them to increase their website's functionality to their employees and members.

Quasar Global provides all aspects of IT management, installation, and support for a company's whole IT environment, from communications to servers to workstations and peripherals.

Having assisted them with a number of website projects, Quasar Global decided they wanted a website overhaul and redesign to expand their market base. The new site features two unique website layouts, a very consistent color-scheme, numerous slideshows, dropdown menus, and a newsletter component.

The Original Teepee Creepers Online Store makes the comfiest little slippers you ever wore. These sheepskin moccasin slippers are great for around the house, in the RV or anywhere.

Teepee Creepers came to us just having purchased an Joomla 1.0 online store (and url) from another company and needed some help getting everything setup properly. Since Fall 2009, we've done a variety of tasks to further refine their site, including adding a newsletter extension, creating holiday graphics, styling copy for their homepage, changing hosts & domain names, and cleaning up unnecessary products in their backend.

In April 2010, we launched a Joomla rebuild and redesign of their ecommerce site. This site features a product slideshow on the homepage, scrolling testimonials, thorough customized styling throughout all aspects of the site, new photos of all products similarly displayed, lightbox of all product images, and recommended products box.

We're very proud of this deluxe shopping cart site and absolutely love wearing our Teepee Creepers.

Grand Effects designs custom Outdoor Fire Features for Commercial and Residential Properties.

We initially made improvements to their pre-existing Flash based website, but encouraged them to abandon a "Flash only" design to take advantage of the improved SEO and many features of a Joomla based website. The new website features a Flash slide show on the home page and a photo gallery using a "lightbox" style display feature. Grand Effects has made good use of a newsletter component to notify their opt-in mailing list of over 1300 about new products and other relevant periodic information.

Training Resource Group is California's "One-Stop-Shop" for Security Officer training.

Training Resource Group came to us looking to turn their regular html site into a Joomla site. We took the design from their old site and adapted it for Joomla, changing the menu design slightly to allow for future menu expansion. Included on the new site is an Event Management system that integrates with EventBrite and a newsletter sign-up integrated with Infusionsoft.

This June The Scottish Renaissance Festival of Santa Cruz encourages you to don your bodice or kilt and pack your bagpipe to come experience the music, engage in impromptu theatrical performance, salute the Queen and raise a glass at Santa Cruz counties own annual renaissance event. The proceeds go to the Charity Events non-profit organization.

For the past few years, Sun Powered Productions has sponsored our authentic period costumed friends, updating and redesigning a website to suite their Renaissance needs. The truth is, from our first irish fiddle tune to our first taste of mead we have become "renies" ourselves.

The 2009 site features CSS and PHP coding with a cry of "freedom" and a longing for those rolling hills of the Scotland.

For 2010, we upgrade their site into Joomla.

Over the years, we have worked with Michael on a variety of Renaissance Festival websites. He continues to come to us for his website services. Here are the other projects we've done for him over the past few years.

Scottish Renaissance Festival 2009

Dragon Slayers Festival 2007

Dragon Slayers Festival 2006

Northern California Renaissance Faire 2006

Northern California Renaissance Faire 2005

Northern California Friends of Faire 2005

American Sports Bra creates patented sports bras and bathing suits that use a special two bras in one design that supports women and allows them to look great.

This website challenged us with its desire to reflect the simplicity and invigorating nature of the bra with the design and layout of the website itself.

The site features search engine friendly content links and a back-end content management system that will allow American Sports Bra to add new retailers and other content items themselves.

VitaClay Chef makes gourmet rice and slow cookers from Natural Zisha™ clay. (The recipe book that comes with the rice cookers is Excellent. - SM )

VitaClay Chef came to us looking for a site redesign for some help getting their shop site working properly. Though Yahoo Shopping carts are fairly restricting to work with for developers, we revitalized the website's look and organized many of the product pages to flow much better.