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Luxury Product Manufacturer Site Relaunch
Home Page - background image scales to browser-size
Product Family Page - interactive, to emphasize stunning photos
Product Family Page - "product dock" in raised position
Technical Search - to find specifications easily
Technical Search - after choosing a product family, the site presents individual product photos
Home Page - background image scales to browser-size
European styling for a global audience.

GRAFF designs and manufactures exceptional kitchen, bathroom, and shower fixtures. Their site was designed with a European feel and is translated into 7 languages with localized dealer lookups.

Notable Site Features:

  • Navigation with product icons
  • Lush automatic and manual photo transitions
  • Pop-up product navigation/specifications
  • Photo-based technical document searching

Target Market: global vistiors, mid-range and luxury buyers

Biggest Challange: Creating a content-management solution for pages that exist across 13 countries and 7 languages.
Engineering Firm Web Site
Home Page - places emphasis on the final product, includes news blocks
Primary Menu - innovative interaction to make browsing more "techie" feeling
Project Page - green hot spots to indicate key design features
Product Page - pop up descriptions to describe key features
Team - grid presentation of employee photos
Team - interactivity to enlarges team-member photos
Home Page - places emphasis on the final product, includes news blocks
An immersive site for a progressive firm

We worked with In-Form to build a site that reflects both their creative competence and enormous engineering capabilities.

Notable Site Features:

Target Market: companies that need design and production engineering

Biggest Challenge: ensuring that the pop-up and slide-out interactions functioned perfectly across all Web browsers
Property Development Company Web Site
Home Page - strong colors with a focus on building development and management
Home Page - hovering over one of the service links
Property Listing - thumbnails and a brief description for each property
Property Detail - in-depth information about a property with interactive thumbnails
Personnel - dedicated layout to present employee biographies
Home Page - strong colors with a focus on building development and management
A new look for a successful investment firm

EJ Plesko is a real estate development/investment firm with holdings all over the US. Their commercial properties fall into three categories that are prominent on their Web site: Residential, Retail, and Office.

Notable Site Features:

  • Properties are easily added by the site admin, and can be promoted to the home page rotations via a checkbox.
  • Avant-garde design with a highly-stylized background

Target Market: executives in the investment and financial community
Baptist Church Web Site Relaunch
Home Page - Content Blocks for a Welcome Message, News and Resources
Supporting Page Template - Simple Navigation with Graphics that Support their Aesthetic
Shopping Cart - Fully Integrated and Managed within their Site
Home Page - Content Blocks for a Welcome Message, News and Resources
A comprehensive site to help spread their message

The Seventh Day Baptist General Conference headquarters is located in Southern Wisconsin. They serve many satellite churches throughout the world.

Notable Site Features:

  • Many different types of content are automatically formatted to maintain a clean layout: pages, blog posts, newsletters, forum posts, and purchaseable products
  • Administrators from their satellite locations can log into the site and post news
  • Private "Staff Area" for internal resources

Target Market: current and prospective church members

Biggest Challenge: Integrating an admin-updateable "Flipping Book" newsletter
Growing into a New Site
Re-designed Great Dane home page
Great Dane site from 2005 - 2011 (Our first project with the Dane.)
Jump to each location from the home page
Shop at the Great Dane site
Location image galleries
Location menus
Re-designed Great Dane home page
A Long-Time Client Shifts Into High Gear

In the years we've worked with the Great Dane, they've grown from one location to five, (Congrats to them on their success!) and literally "outgrew" their old site.

The Great Dane Pub was looking for a fresh look and an easier to use content management system. Features Include:

  • Location specific domains (each Great Dane location has a mini-website of their own)
  • Events Calendar
  • Featured news and community involvement
  • Store and checkout
  • Mobile version of the site
  • Photo Galleries
  • Stunning background images on every page

 

 
Third-Party Logistics Provider Web Site Relaunch
A contemporary Home Page with a "highway" feel.
Real-Time Weather Updates
News Feeds from Industry Sites
Real-Time Fuel Updates
The "R Graphic" appears whenever they type "r-" in their CMS.
A contemporary Home Page with a "highway" feel.
Real Time on The Web

RLS Corporation is a third-party logistics provider that connects clients with shipping solutions. Their site relaunch needed to be distinctive and contemporary.

Notable site features:

RLS provides their customers with cargo tracking information in real-time, so we built many information-rich features that are constantly updating automatically. On the home page, you can view current weather across the country, see industry news or compare up-to-the-minute fuel prices. It is a great resource for RLS customers!

We added a neat feature that automatically inserts their signature graphic anywhere they type "r-" in their text or page names in their CMS.
International Christian Embassy Jerusalem
The ICEJ site can detect the country the user's IP address is in
Donation pages for each country and a drop down to change your region
ICEJ Hebrew page reads right to left
ICEJ Store features books, music, gifts, video and more!
ICEJ user accounts for members
The ICEJ site can detect the country the user's IP address is in
Connecting a Worldwide Audience

The International Christian Embassy Jerusalem site is a multi-country, multi-language site that is accessible and editable to the client through one login.

Achievements

  • Auto-detect region knows the country the user is in based on their IP and feeds them the appropriate site
  • Several languages are used throughout the sites, the Hebrew site reads right to left
  • The site accepts donations from all of the countries
  • Users can select other regions with a fly-out country selector
  • Import of tens of thousands of historical news articles
  • Integrated email list management for 30,000 users

 
Senior Living: Multiple Integrated Web Sites
Home Page - Shorewood Senior Campus
Home Page - Summit Place Senior Campus
Community Tour - Summit Place Senior Campus
Community Tour - Walnut Ridge at Clive
Home Page - Shorewood Senior Campus
Managing seven sites from one login is a snap

SilverCrest Properties is a development/management company with seven major senior-living communities in three states. Each community has a unique Web site to enhance its brand, but all sites are managed from one login.

Notable Site Features:

  • Simple navigation that emphasizes their core services
  • Photo rotations with captions, that link to a destination page

Target Market: women between the ages of 40-65

Biggest Challenge: Designing a set of supporting graphics that look great in a diverse array of colors: blue, green, magenta, beige, and maroon.
Property Management Web Site
Home Page - Giant Photo Rotation and Vertically Expanding Menus
Home Page - Vertical Menu Expanded
Map Search - Locate a Unit from within the Complex
Map Search - Unit List Visible
Unit Detail Page - Showcases Unit Features and Photos
Home Page - Giant Photo Rotation and Vertically Expanding Menus
A lush site that reflects high-end apartment living

VanBuren Place is a brand-new development in a suburb on Madison's east side. Their site offers features and content for current and prospective residents.

Notable Site Features:

  • Secure application stores applicant info in a database. 
  • Applications can be accessed and printed by the site admin (and are printed as PDFs that are identical to their standard paper application).
  • Apartment photos can be updated easily by the site admin.
  • Herkimer designed the logo, and graphic standards/branding for this project.

Target Market: upmarket, single renters or couples

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