Actual Websites

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Recent Projects

    Prism Kites Technology

    Prism Kites, a Seattle kite manufacturing company, wanted to put its entire product line in an ecommerce store, with an updated web presence. We built a robust and powerful WordPress and WooCommerce backend that gives Prism the ability to manage the site, sales and inventory. It interfaces with QuickBooks Online and looks great on phones. Our talented client took almost all the photos and was the graphic designer. We did these bits:

  • Site architecture and website development
  • Data management
  • Created WooCommerce online store using Amazon Payments and Authorize.net Payments system
  • Used Webgility to sync site WooCommerce sales and inventory with QuickBooks Online
  • Set up custom shipping process ensuring accurate costs and charges and shipping with via FedEx, UPS and USPS
  • Set up security and cloud-based scheduled backups
  • Trained client to use site
Prism Kites New site

    Yankee One Design

    This website for a class of wooden sailboats replaced a 12 year old site that didn't look good on phones, was missing basic functionality, and was all around outdated.

  • Complete redesign of style and structure
  • We did the writing, layout, site architecture, and all aspects of the website development
  • This WordPress multi-site can have a separate blog for each Yankee class sailboat
  • Images optimized for speed
  • Cloud-based scheduled backups
Yankee One Design New site

    Hilltop Children's Center

    This replaced a 10 year old WordPress site that had some serious technical issues.

    To keep costs down, Hilltop staff members (with no prior web development experience) wrote the content, optimized the photos, created the layouts, and basically built every page.

    Actual Websites did the project management and the technical tasks. We kept in close touch with the Hilltop staff, walking them through every step of the project. It was a beautiful collaboration.

  • Complete redesign of style and structure
  • Managed project scope and timeline
  • Created site architecture
  • Organized and facilitated focus group for site functionality and structure
  • Recommended a new ISP, managed all DNS changes
  • Mentored Hilltop staff on website layout and design, content strategy, navigation, SEO and security
  • Vetted and tested plugins for compatibility on a separate test site
  • Facilitated a user testing event
  • Set-up cloud-based scheduled backups
  • Proofread, tested
Hilltop Children's Center New Site