portfolio
Here is a list of sites that we’ve worked on… the one you’re looking at counts too(!)
| Client: BC ChristmasNeeds: Christmas Logistics wanted to portray their cutting edge logistical expertise and market to high ups in the military and academic arenas.
Solution: » We provided a creative solution with branding including a 3 fold brochure, business card, logo redesign, and matching website that gave them a distinctive brand without looking too ‘tekkie’. |
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| Client: Tami,Jim, & JessicaNeeds: The Fitgers Team wanted a site that portrayed the uniquely historic look and feel of the brewery. M5Media teamed up with Laughing Stock Design for this project
Solution: » Custom design (Laughing Stock Design) and tools that allow the hotel staff to add calendar events, update photo galleries, and change information from the control panel |
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| Client: Frank Befera - Mortgage Broker Needs: With todays market, one needs to stand out from the rest…Solution: » Custom design and tools that allow users to login to view their loan data online through the website in nearly real time. A python script updates the website every hour and sends status alerts to borrowers with loan status changes. The site also features a quick “33″ second application and a mortgage information center » Launch Website |
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| Client: Coy Christmas - Game Guru Needs: A site that provides a high tech look and feel along with ecommerce functionality for his gaming storeSolution: » We custom drafted the design and built scripts that allow him to manage the featured picks on the front page and calendar events. Mix that up with a forum and ecommerce store and you’ve got all the bells and whistles! » Launch Website |
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| Client: Les Adolphson - Real Estate Broker Needs: Update an old broken site and free up time for Julie his poor secretary!Solution: » This one flat out rocks! We built a huge python script that logs into an MLS Server and downloads the latest Housing Data on a nightly basis. It’s completely automated. Then we built a management system for the realtors where they can each have a page with their listings on it. This one is aesthetic design, and technical brilliance! It’s also saving Julie a lot of time :-) » Launch Website |
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| Client: KVEW TV Station - WashingtonNeeds: Ongoing maintenance and programming for this high traffic news site.
Solution: » We inherited this one from another developer. Primary focus is the delivery of around the clock news and video from the TV Station |
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| Client: You Post It Wisconsin - Madison Needs: They wanted a site like YouTube, but for the local marketSolution: » This site is crazy - smarty caching, database driven, allows users to upload photos and video to the site, it even crops the photos so they fit nicely into the design! This one is a programmatic behemoth - Mark’s design, Jeremy’s programming genius. » Launch Website |
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| Client: Morgan Murphy Media- Multimedia Conglomerate
Needs: This site was put together solely for the purpose of supporting a press release saying the company changed their name - site got thousands of hits it’s first day. Solution: » This site is relatively simple - but it needed to look sharp and handle a ton of traffic |
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| Client: Nkasa Yelengi, University Professor, African History
Needs: A site that allowed him to bring the learning experience online, and provide necessary information to students 24 hours a day. Solution: » A random image generator to display various works of african art, updateable class notes in the class section |
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Client: Seaquest Productions - Photo & Video Specialists Needs: A way to show clients photography and video portfolio work. Solution: » A hybrid flash and PHP site that allows the user to view Seaquest Productions’ Photography and View sample video clips. |
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Client: Litman Construction, Remodeling, & Handyman Services- Contractor Needs: Establish a web presence, and be able to get job submissions over the internet. Solution: » An Online Job and Application form that collects information from customers and stores it in a database, then sends a text message to the contractors to let them know they’ve received a submission online. |
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Client: Integra Financial Services- Mortgage Broker Needs: Upgrade their web presence , be able to offer loan services over the net. Solution: » An Online Loan Application form that securely collects loan information from customers, creates them an account on the site which they can login to to view the status of their loan and the loan data. Allows Integra to import that loan data from the site into their specialty mortgage software. Also, features a mortgage calculator, loan finder tool, information center, and ratewatch, which allows surfers to sign up for notification when the rates reach a certain level. |
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Client: Jerry Schillinger - Entrepeneur Needs: Provide an ecommerce site to sell his unique product. Solution: » M5 created an ecommerce website to sell the Pillar People, creations that go on the pillars outside or inside houses. As a bonus, we also added in a photo gallery that sorts uploads from the Pillar People Community by season. The ecommerce engine handles payments via PayPal, remembers people’s information, and allows them to login and check the status of their order. |
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Client: Eddie Vegas - Ebay Guru Needs: Start his own guitar based ecommerce store, to get away from Ebay’s Fees Solution: » Our Best Yet! Custom Design, Custom Built Ecommerce Engine which allows customers to use offline payment or PayPal. The store allows Ed to list products in any category he wants, set prices, sale prices, keep track of inventory,sales, etc. We also added in a mailing list feature where you can sign up to receive news when new vintage guitar parts arrive in the store. |
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Client: Integrated Processing - Mortgage Company Needs: Provide a web application that lets them process loans for other vendors Solution: » This one smokes! Custom Design as always. The sites administration allows the mortgage processors to keep in constant contact with their clients via a ‘loan pipeline’ that graphically represents the mortgage process. Throw in the ability for clients to login and upload and download all the files encountered in a mortgage and you have one kickin website! |
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Client: Babars Guitars - Guitar Shop in upstate New York Needs: Get away from Ebay’s Fees and enter the world of Ecommerce Solution: » Eddievegas.com is going nuts on sales, why mess with the formula? Sam likes visual appeal, so we did a little Flash work for him. Cindy appreciates ease of use. Sam & Cindy are our favorite clients from New York, cheers! |
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Client: Bamstyle - Hair Salon Needs: Get on the web, have a cool looking site Solution: » We integrated a little flash techno music on this one with some interesting graphic design. We also built a backend templating system so they can update all their content and photos, and even print coupons for their business off the web! Three cheers for the Russians! |
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Client: Boardwalk Realty - Real Estate Needs: Get both his MLS Listings, and his rental properties online Solution: » An easy to understand interface with a slick rental properties section. The site dynamically generates maps of where the properties are, and allows him to upload pictures and rental information. |
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| Client: Jan Oltmanns - Massage Therapist
Needs: Jan wanted a ‘new look’ and a way to update all of her content herself. We made it so easy… I don’t think she’s called in 6 months! Solution: » Graphic Design that is very new age… and a content management system that lets them pop up specials and alerts for their clients on the front page anytime they like. |
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| Client: Malley Companies - Real Estate
Needs: A site that allows the company to chronicle fixing up a house in blog like fashion. Then attach videos to the site while their working on it. Solution: » This one had to be done FAST for a current project. Not only does it look nice, but we finished it in under a week after some late nights… |
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| Client: Sally Cavallaro - JewelerNeeds: She caught a big break when Maurices sent out one of her pieces to a national mailing list. We swooped in to the rescue when another company dropped the ball.
Solution: » This is an example of how our ecommerce engine can be adapted to look different but retain it’s core functionality |
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| Client: Zeb Hermanson - Hiking GuideNeeds: Zeb and I went to the anchor bar to discuss what we didn’t learn in college and have a beer. Suddenly, he exclaimed “I’ve got this great idea!”
Solution: » A site that brings his guide service to the internet. A Google Adwords campaign is in the works when spring comes around to boost traffic to the site. |
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Client: Sarah Angst - Artist Needs: Provide a web application that lets her keep an online presence for her artwork and collect signups for art fairs Solution:» Worked with the clients vision of what she wanted the site to be, heavily drawing from her artwork. Our part was creating a database application that lets her create art galleries on the fly and upload artwork into each gallery with popup enlargements. |
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Client: Jim Batchelor - Lawyer Needs: Provide a means of getting Batchelor Law Firm PA onto the web to create a larger sphere of influence. Solution: » A site that professionally represents the firm in an aesthetic way. The site also allows people to submit claims over the internet and has a database full of legal information. » Launch Website |
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