santa cruz web design

Web and Print Design Portfolio

Our client list spans multiple industries:

  • realty
  • artist/education
  • business/corporate
  • eCommerce websites

Real Estate Websites:


Sherman and Boone & SB Commercial
2 extensive real estate brokerage sites powered by a combination of customized open-source real estate software and custom-built database software. We also shot at least 50% of the lifestyle photos that are used throughout the site and in their print advertising.

Ow Properties
Custom commercial real estate website design and construction, including photography services and video tours by Streamworks Media.

Main St Realtors
Full-service, user-maintained brokerage site design, maintenance, programming. Longtime client-- we've just launched the 3rd-generation site for this business.

All About Properties
Full service, user-maintained brokerage site.

Phillip Frandler
CSS-based web site design and listings database for a Santa Cruz commercial real estate agent

Lomak Property Group
Custom commercial real estate site with a content management system powering all pages of the site, so the client can update availabile listings. We also provided photography services.

Timerie Gordon
Informational site for a mortgage consultant, feature a data-driven articles database.

Santa Cruz Connection
Photography, custom site design, plug-in and customize newsletter, links and other site scripts

Costa Rica Connection
Graphics-rich vacation rental site

Educational Institutions, Artist and Photography Websites:


Allan Weisbecker / Bandito Books
Probably the largest-scale project we've attempted: this is an online magazine (eZine) for a maverick publishing company featuring streaming video, a complete Content Management System supporting hundreds of pages of multimedia content, and an e-store. Complete with multiple blogs, a community forum, streaming video, original writing and photography from world-renowned writers and photographers. We designed and built every aspect of this site, along with Allan's fan site and the adjunct site for his 3rd book, while also helping to edit and design the book, which we published via Bandito Books. We provided the following services: Design, custom php application development, implementation of a Content Management System, book jacket design, branding/logo design, copy editing, general editorial services, site production and maintenance.

Can't You Get Along With Anyone?
Appendix website for thee newest book by Allan Weisbecker. Features a full content management system, weblog, Flash photo gallery and reader's forum.

BIN-RDI
Website design and production for a convergence science research institute on the NASA Ames campus in the Silicon Valley.

Jack Baskin School of Engineering, UCSC
Redesign of all division websites for the School of Engineering at UCSC.

University Affiliated Research Center, UCSC
Design, branding and website production + ongoing support for a research partnership between UCSC and the NASA Ames Research Center.

UCSC Summer Session
We worked with Jabico Enterprises to design the look and feel for UC Summer Session site, which is powered by their Chameleon CMS Content Management System. This site was recently awarded Best Website honors at the Western Regional Conference in Hawaii.

UCSC Student Health Center
Redesign and reconstruction of the university's medical center site. We also provide ongoing web maintenance services for them.

CBSE at UCSC
Site architecture, implementation of existing design, design assistance and ongoing support for the Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering at UCSC.

UCSC Office of the Ombuds
Updated the look and code for one of UCSC's department sites, while trying to stick to the University's design requirements.  Also features some of our original photography.

Emerald City Entertainment Group
Site design, user-interface and html architecture for a local record label and music publishing business.

CORD
Informational website for a band on the Emerald City label.

Seafriendly Photography
Photography database which is maintained wholly by the client.

The Truth About Beef Jerky
Site Design, Flash, Audio/Video, Video Game

Crest of the Wave/Conrad Miller
Offbeat author's website with a weblog, database-driven document archive featuring photos, PDFs and plain text articles, plus an Amazon Associate's store which returns a sales commission to the author.  We performed the design, architecture, photography and implementation & customization of all the data-driven features.

Paula Phelan Photography
Online photography database: site construction, programming modifications, consulting, and customization

David Royal Photography
Online Photography Database: Site Design, database script customization (cgi/perl)

New View Photography
Custom database-driven website for a wedding photographer.  Uses inline frames and a MySQL database, which gives the site a custom look, but lets the client make all of her own updates.

McCourt Studio
Artist website programming and site production from an existing design. Site redesign in progress.

Business, Executive, Hospitality and Corporate Clients:


Santa Cruz Community Counseling Center
We completely revamped the SC4 website, taking their old, static site and implementing a new look that complements their printed marketing materials. In rebuilding their site, we implemented an extensive content management system and a private staff resources back-end or intranet, where staff can login and see dozens of pages of additional materials on the website.

Warmboard
Complete site design and production with a full Content Management System. We also provide ongoing support and maintenance.

Lighthouse Bank
Logo design/brand identity. We designed Lighthouse Bank's distinctive logo and are currently working on revamping their web presence.

Shopper's Corner
Custom design, photography and Flash.  Jukebox.

Santa Cruz Surf School
Custom website design and construction, including a custom-built online registration calendar for their classes and summer camps.

Mentawai North / KC Travel
Custom website design and implementation of a flash photo gallery system for an Indonesian surf charter company.

Posada de los Raqueros
Using Flash 8, we developed compact, feature-rich photo slideshows for every room in this Mexican villa. This is a good example of the kind of website we can produce for the hospitality industry. We shot all the photos, designed and then built every aspect of the site.

Nadel Phelan
Custom design and development for a high-end Scotts Valley PR Firm

Central Oregon LandWatch
Custom website for an Oregon nonprofit, complete with a web-based content management system and blog, so that the clients can update every page of the site themselves.

Bay Area Strategic Group
Custom website construction for a Bay Area business consulting group using a WordPress opensource Content Management System.

OrchidAsh
Custom website design and production for a San Diego Esthetician.

Cowell's Surf Shop
Photography, Design, Flash, E-Commerce

KelCore Fitness
Website design and photography + implementation of a web-based content management system for a personal trainer's site.

BizAssist Inc
Gateway website for a group of small businesses in the sales training and fuel economy business.

Hakes Sash and Door
We tore apart an aging Flash website and turned it into a search engine friendly W3C-compliant XHTML/CSS site.

West Cliff Cottage
Custom design, construction and photography for a local vacation rental

Executive MBA Seminar
Design, architecture and production of an informational site for an Executive Seminar.  Features online registration.

Professional MBA Seminar
Sister site to the Executive MBA Seminar above.

Catalyst2001.com
We performed the photography, design and all aspects of the site production, including an extensive database-driven photo gallery application for the architecture and the horses.

QX3Chips.com
1-page informational site for a gas-saving fuel chip retailer, with subdomain sites for additional dealers

Made in Pescadero
Photography, site design and construction

Pure Audio
Site architecture, construction, maintenance and design assistance, Flash

ROI By Design
Design consultation and construction for an iluminada partner in Santa Cruz, CA.  Site still in progress.

Nature First Tree Care
Site design and production, Flash, photography; built in partnership with Emerald City Entertainment Group and Jeremy Gray.

Hospice of Santa Cruz County
Site design and production, plus implementation of a donation script for Santa Cruz County's Hospice organization.

Partnership for Parents
An offshoot of ChildrensHospice.org, this site is a detailed online resource guide for parents of seriously ill children. We designed the site and built the back-end around an extensively customized NucleusCMS software core.

PadresCompadres.org
The Partnership for Parents website, ported into Spanish.

ThirdWirePR
Informational site for a high-tech marketing and PR firm

Top Sales Coach
Design, architecture and production of a sales training website, including a Nucleus Blog for easy addition of training articles, RSS Syndication, and a database-driven events calendar.

Hank's at the Hook
Fun, colorful Flash website for Santa Cruz's newest restaurant. We provided design, photography, flash and web production services.

Valley Heights
Website design, photography and production for a senior living community in Watsonville.

4RFuture.com
An extremely custom online store featuring a great selection of natural and organic lifestyle products. We performed all aspects of this website build, from design to the store's programming and production.

Chilren's Hospice
Custom-designed informational site which also features secure online donations and a robust osCommerce-backed store which drives their selling of bracelets. This site also features a handful of other administrative tools, which allow the staff to update many aspects of the site themselves.

Arcangeli Grocery Company / Norm's Market
A full-featured eCommerce site powered by an extensively customized installation of osCommerce. We also shot all the product photos and designed all their gourmet food labels.

SockSmith.com
Highly customized eCommerce site which we designed and built from the ground up.  This is the first implementaion of our next-generation IDcommerce ecommerce solution.  This site takes advantage of a revamped image and product handling framework which makes the administration and presentation of product easier and cleaner than ever before.

Simple Business Systems
Extensively customized osCommerce website, integrated with a subscription component, support forum and trouble ticket system.  We also provided  a complete corporate identity package, including logo design, business cards, letterhead & envelopes.

Surf City Coffee
Custom e-commerce package with integrated eNewsletter, news tool and flash video coffee selector.

RougeGirl
Custom eCommerce site for a clothing retailer.

Jian
We completely redesigned the site's web presence while re-structuring the content and streamlining the information flow. Check out these before and after screenshots of the Jian.com homepage.

Davenport Roadhouse at the Cash Store
Website development, design consultation and implementation of a web-based Content Management System (CMS) and online booking system for this inn and restaurant on the north coast of Santa Cruz.

Aikane Surfwear
Highly-customized eCommerce integration of a radical design by cj design.

Beauregard Vineyards
Complete Custom eCommerce site design, Flash, Newsletter, music loops for homepage.

Sockshop and Shoe Co
eCommerce support and maintenance on an X-Cart- powered website.

Ugly Bass Player
Photography, Design, E-Commerce, Copy Writing, Content Management, Forum Construction and Administration, General Maintenance. Now features a highly-customized osCommerce-driven web store.

Shine Freely
Small eCommerce site for the sale of a downloadable book.

Leroy Powell
Goofy flash site for a country music artist currently playing with Shooter Jennings. Sells downloadable music and photo albums via an osCommerce-based store.

Temple Beth El Aptos
Full site reconstruction and design, featuring online membership renewal, class registration secure donations.

Rocketboards
Custom eCommerce site photography, design and construction for a skateboard maker/retailer.  Uses a PayPal store to process orders.

Music Together of Flagstaff
Custom site design featuring a calendar and registration script

Chardonnay.com
Rebuild and redesign of existing website, including a custom-built combined registration calendar and store

eCommerce / Shopping Carts

We are small business e-Commerce specialists. Our osCommerce- based idCommerce solutions is powerful, flexible and extremely easy to use... (learn more)

Website Design and Development

We create and build custom-designed websites tailored specifically to each client’s unique needs and style, then host the sites in a stable, secure environment... (learn more)

Blogs and Content Management

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