Pacific Cookie Company
A modern, full-width design skinned on a custom eCommerce CMS.
Sante Winery
Magento Commerce site for selling wine online with a custom-built wine club management extension and integration with the new Stripe payment gateway.
SockSmith.com
Socksmith wanted their brick and mortar store and their Magento Commerce website to share the same inventory and accounting, so we connected Magento to Lightspeed POS, and then loaded the Magento site with enterprise-class features that you would only expect from sites that cost 10x the cost of this small business eCommerce website. The same system they use to manage their in-store inventory and sales can be used to manage their website’s inventory. This is an example of how a small “mom and pop” enterprise can shine on the international stage.
Pranamaya.com
Custom Magento eCommerce site featuring flash video players, detailed tabbed product descriptions, a powerful review engine and a completely unique design & product presentation.
Alite Designs
Magento Commerce customization, optimization and server security. Implementation of Magento extensions, custom Magento extension programming, website support and general maintenance.
Friends of Santa Cruz State Parks
Support with the Magento Commerce and WordPress software that backs their extensive website. Development of custom Magento checkout extensions for donations and member discounts, along with server administration and general website support.
Blithe and Bonny
Website design and development for a wholesale Magento website, with an approval process for customer account creation required in order to see the extensive wholesale catalog.
Hanford Mead Publishers
A custom-designed idCommerce-based store for a Santa Cruz publisher. Apart from designing and building the site, we also built a custom API for idCommerce in order to share login credentials with Hanford Mead’s sister site, SoulCollage.com.
Smith & Vandiver
Smith & Vandiver came to us with a unique challenge: unify our 3 brands while designing and building a dynamic eCommerce and informational portal. The end result of an intensive 3-month project is a completely redesigned business identity for this nationally-acclaimed manufacturer of bath and body products.
Jomar Labs
A Magento Commerce build for a nutritional supplement manufacturer. Site designed by Erik Gundersen.
The Ginger People
A totally-custom redesign of US version of their web store and informational website, backed by the Magento Commerce platform. Magento is a powerful new eCommerce platform that’s still experiencing some growing pains, but with a lot of determination and a little bit of tequila we were able to bend the Magento platform to our will. Check it out before and after our redesign.
No Enemy Clothing
Custom-designed web store and CMS powered entirely by the Magento Commerce platform.
Think Local First Santa Cruz
Custom website design with custom-built Customer Relationship Management system to handle membership management and payment.
Little Footprint Lighting
Simple Shopify eCommerce site for a manufacturer of LED Task Lighting.
Beckmann’s Bakery
OpenCart eCommerce build + Drupal content management system from a pre-existing design by Janet Allinger.
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.
Walkabout Harnesses
Custom e-store for a manufacturer of custom-built harnesses for pets.
First 5 of Santa Cruz County
A very customized Drupal-powered website for a local nonprofit that features event registration calendars, a private staff discussion forum and resource area and loads of customized content.
Hospice of Santa Cruz County
Site design and production, plus implementation of a donation script for Santa Cruz County’s Hospice organization.
Children’s Hospice and Palliative Care Coalition
WordPress website and ongoing support for this Santa Cruz County-based nonprofit organization.
SoulCollage
We leveraged Drupal to its fullest with this complete redesign and rebuild of the SoulCollage.com web presence. We took full advantage of the Views and CCK modules, alongside some custom-built modules, to create a miniature social network for the multiple groups of SoulCollage facilitators, then we tied the Drupal roles to an idCommerce-based store at hanfordmead.com– a single login and profile for two completely separate websites.
Ski Mystic
We used Drupal and Shopify together to create a dynamic website for this South Dakota ski resort. There’s a custom events calendar, video players, photo and video galleries and we used Drupal’s multisite capabilities to add on a site for their upcoming real estate development.
PMG Technology Solutions
A WordPress-backed informational site for Physician’s Medical Group designed to promote their e-Practice technology solutions for their vast group of doctors. We provided both design and development along with extensive print/branding design.
Community Connection
Custom design, logo design and a full-featured Drupal-backed website with a custom-built job board and a series of videos produced in collaboration with our partner, Nomad Productions.
Pacific Energy Sales
Design and development of a WordPress-backed informational website and hydronic heating resource center.
2RHealth
Custom designed theme + website production for a WordPress-backed site for a sustainable food business.
Zumanna
Promotional site for a healthfood manufacturer.
Price Landscaping
Custom designed theme & website production for a WordPress-backed site for a landscaping business in Napa/Sonoma.
Okizu Foundation
Complete redesign of an existing website, plus implementation of an opensource content management system. Check it out before and after our redesign.
Allterra Environmental
A unique redesign and content management system for a progressive environmental sciences firm in Santa Cruz. We wanted to keep the design as simple as possible while leveraging powerful and unique large-format imagery, and the end result is a very modern, easy-to-use look that we’re quite proud of.
Americorps / Corporation for National & Community Service
Design for Drupal skin for a resource portal used by Americorps to guide and organize volunteers. This site is a partner site to the Obama Administration’s Serve.gov community service website.
Caye Caulker Condos
Custom WordPress-powered website for the hospitality industry, renting condos in Belize.
D’la Colmena Market
Design and custom WordPress theme for a small community market in Watsonville.
Craig Blackwell, MD
Custom design and construction of a website with a web-based Content Management system for a Santa Cruz opthalmology practice.
Ridgeline Technology
Custom design and development of a WordPress-driven website for a manufacturer of ruggedized computer hardware. We built a custom WordPress plugin for this site that handles the product database, and the design also features original photography by John Benedetti.
Nagel Technologies
Site design and coding of a stylesheet and XHTML template.
Lighthouse Bank
Logo design/brand identity. We designed Lighthouse Bank’s distinctive logo. We also provided design services and consultation for their website.
Yamamoto USA
Site design and construction for a Japanese printed circuit board manufacturer.
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
This is a good example of the kind of website we can produce for the hospitality industry. We shot all the photos, wrote most of the content, designed and then built every aspect of the site. If you look closely, you’ll see photos of iluminada owner John Benedetti surfing the point out front of the inn.
Bay Area Strategic Group
Custom website construction for a Bay Area business consulting group using a WordPress opensource Content Management System.
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.
Hakes Sash and Door
We tore apart an aging Flash website and turned it into a search engine friendly W3C-compliant XHTML/CSS site.
Gina Gershon
We recently overhauled actress Gina Gershon’s web presence while implementing a simple Content Management System that allows her to keep her site, fimography and press releases up-to-date. We also provide systems administration for her dedicated webserver and have set her up with a simple, inexpensive Shopify web store.
UCSC Wellness Center
A design-only project in partnership with Jabico Enterprises. We designed a new look and user interface for a Drupal-backed website.
Genome 10K
A custom Drupal skin designed and coded for an international scientific research project affilliated with 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.
Nader Pourmand’s Research Group
Custom design for a Bio Nano Tech research group at UCSC.
Jack Baskin School of Engineering, UCSC
Redesign of all division websites for the School of Engineering at UCSC.
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.