Web Design & Development

When talking internet design, the soup of acronyms and catchphrases can be ridiculously distracting, baroquely confusing.

Will our FOSS LAMP CMS maximize our ROI if our SEO is fine-tuned, though our DMKT is AWOL?

Yeah, exactly; and, whatever.  We’ve got it covered.

Your internet identity relies on universal concepts that have nothing to do with technobabble: Will they come? Will they smile? Will they talk? Will they buy?  Yet the techno issues aren’t trivial.  Isn’t it best when you don’t have to think about it?  Our sites are built from the ground up with the core technologies which ensure that your web presence makes that buck bang.

Osteria Langhe

WordPress Solution

Osteria Langhe Is a restaurant in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood specializing in the cuisine of Italy’s Piedmonte region.  The restaurant has deep ties to Chicago’s dining culture and required a bold and responsive site that could stand proud among Osteria Langhe’s colleagues and competitors with frequent updates for special events and seamless social media integration, essential to the modern market.

Tenfab Design, LLC

TenFab

Joomla! Solution

Tenfab Design approached designer Paul Uhl to produce a business portfolio site built around the bold presentation of their custom flexible signage and fabrication. We deployed heavily customized gallery and content components to match the existing 2D designs. Tenfab Design marketing is able to manage their message directly with the maximum visual impact.

FFJournal

FFJournal

Joomla! Solution

Trend Publishing of Chicago publishes two major trade magazines within the metals industry, FFJournal and Modern Metals Magazine. In 2010, while their editorial and design staff had created new, cutting edge identities for the print properties, their online presence lingered in the ’90’s within an antiquated MSAccess database-driven site which could be updated solely from a single, developer-installed laptop, the only point of access on the entire planet. Take your turn and forget working outside the office.

With our specialization in translating print designs to the web, we worked directly with the Trend design staff to create a highly customized and modularized Joomla! install. We also preserved and imported legacy data, converting the MSAccess mdb files into Joomla! schema MySQL data.

With the expansive user role customization of Joomla! and the support of state-of-the-art security components, we liberated Trend’s editorial staff to maximize their impact on the metals industry while preserving the impact of their unique brand image.

ModernMetals Magazine

ModernMetals

Joomla! Solution

Trend Publishing of Chicago publishes two major trade magazines within the metals industry, FFJournal and Modern Metals Magazine. In 2010, while their editorial and design staff had created new, cutting edge identities for the print properties, their online presence lingered in the ’90’s within an antiquated MSAccess database-driven site which could be updated solely from a single, developer-installed laptop, the only point of access on the entire planet.  Take your turn and forget working outside the office.

With our specialization in translating print designs to the web, we worked directly with the Trend design staff to create a highly customized and modularized Joomla! install.  We also preserved and imported legacy data, converting the MSAccess mdb files into Joomla! schema MySQL data.

With the expansive user role customization of Joomla! and the support of state-of-the-art security components, we liberated Trend’s editorial staff to maximize their impact on the metals industry while preserving the impact of their unique brand image.

Larsen Marine

Larsen Marine

Joomla! Solution

A multi-generational family business, Larsen Marine provides boater sales, service and storage in a massive marina in Waukegan, IL on the western shore of Lake Michigan. Graphic designer Paul Uhl sought to create a state-of-the-art interactive and informative web presence for the business’s new web site. With years in the print publishing business, Paul created a highly detailed set of flat designs in Adobe Photoshop and InDesign that needed to be translated, pixel-perfect, to a new CMS framework. With our years of experience in working with print designers designing for the web, we translated Paul’s designs into a highly customized Joomla! install, preserving all original design specifications, leaving nothing to “That’s good enough.” The site holds within it a custom billing system, allowing customers to pay storage and repair invoices online.

With the new Joomla! site, Larsen Marine’s Marketing Department has been able to update and customize content directly targeted to their seasonal sales goals and customer outreach efforts.

Alan Kimrey also shot a good portion of the Larsen-specific photography on the new site.

Cage Memorial Chapels & Cremations Services, Ltd.

Cage Memorial

Joomla! Solution

Cage Memorial is a long-standing cornerstone of Chicago’s South Shore community. Independent funeral homes are constantly approached by internet services providing generic, canned web solutions “tailored” for the industry with little opportunity for individuality or ultimate control over the content.  Called in following our work with Brady-Gill Funeral Home and Cremation Services, we worked with Cage staff to create a sleek Joomla! adaptation of their existing web branding, installing our custom Obituary and Guest Book platform, both of which are controlled directly by Cage personnel without ongoing subscription fees.

Cage Memorial also wanted to manage Flower and Gift sales directly.  We built out the Joomla! installed shopping cart with external payment processing through their own bank while avoiding the need for potentially costly PCI compliance.  Shopping cart and the broader web site are both managed within the same Joomla! framework.

Alan Kimrey also provided supplemental interior photography for the site.

RoboReps

RoboReps

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