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03.30.10 – New Kois Center event site by web developer elephants & ants
As a key annual event for their mentors, graduates; and clinical instructors, the Kois Center's annual Symposium offers a rich educational program in the latest in advanced dental techniques. elephants & ants worked with Kois staff to develop a comprehensive program registration site, which integrates with their existing custom ecommerce web site. Event registration has been expedited and user access to their online accounts is facilitating a more customized interaction for this program. View the 2010 Symposium web site
10.28.09 – e&a is a nwjobs.com people's pick finalist for favorite creative company
In an annual search for the Northwest's favorite local companies, nwjobs.com asks the public to vote daily in more than 25 different categories. This year elephants & ants was chosen to be a finalist in the creative company category.Visit nwjobs.com to see other finalists
08.31.09 – e&a Develops Textbookology website, a start-up student textbook marketplace
Textbookology.com founder, Matt Nyberg, had a vision to improve the experience of buying and selling used college textbooks online. He engaged elephants & ants to develop a custom site for his start-up venture and to provide a stable and feature-rich foundation for allowing students to offer their used textbooks to other students. The completed site includes a comprehensive search feature that allows users to locate items by title, keyword, school and state. User registration allows sellers to manage their textbook listings and their public profile allows potential buyers to see their full offerings. Future site enhancements are planned. The site was designed to appeal to a modern student audience with a clean visual presentation and great usability. Visit Textbookology.com to see this feature-rich website
07.27.09 – An updated look for Exposed Skin Care, maker of leading natural acne treatment
Already a successful online merchant for their natural acne skin care line, Exposed Skin Care wanted to take their ecommerce site to new heights. In conjunction with a product makeover, they sought help from veteran website design and development team, elephants & ants to create a new site to expand their market appeal. The revised site includes a contemporary color palette, sleek design and greater calls-to-action. The site was coded to work with an existing content management and ecommerce solution, as well as leveraging new, uniform CSS.See the new design for the Exposed Skin Care ecommerce site
04.01.09 – New Site Design Positions Fedelta for Growth
As a leading provider of home care services in the Pacific Northwest, Fedelta was already exceeding their own expectations, but their existing website was holding them back. e&a was engaged to provide a rapid design facelift for their brochure site and the comfortable new look is helping Fedelta make new connections. See the site design in action.
03.04.09 – Smart and Bold Site for Gemini Partners
An updated logo and identity for Gemini is leveraged for a site redesign. The clean and sophisticated website is building traction for this California-based investment banking group. Take a peek at the new look.Take a peek at the new look.
01.30.09 – ecohaus Consumer Site Launches
Seattle-based ecohaus, offers consumers and contractors access to a ready assortment of environmentally friendly building products. e&a was engaged to bring its expert web development skills and seasoned project management capabilities to help bring the new site to life. The updated site built by e&a using third-party designs, features XHTML/CSS coding, as well as several custom-scripted features to help enrich the online shopping and research experience. Templates were also coded for integration with the ecohaus ecommerce solution, Iciniti, a Sage Accpac integrated solution. Visit the site.
07.09.08 – e&a Spins New Site for Spun
Spun, an organic clothing line for women, launched in early 2008, was conceived around the idea of dressing women in quality, all natural clothes that were both comfortable and fashionable. e&a assisted with site planning, strategy, design, flash and development of a brochure site to assist with product marketing online. The new site provides a platform for helping build the Spun brand as well as growing her business. Visit the new Spun site
06.30.08 – Quick Campaign for Egencia Launch
Egencia, the newly rebranded Expedia Corporate Travel website property needed a firm to help them execute on the new brand launch online. e&a joined them in this exciting re-branding effort, by playing a role in strategy, planning, design, and execution of a brand launch site and related campaign assets, including ad banners and print ads. Egencia is positioned to continue to strengthen its position as a global corporate travel leader. See the new Egencia Campaign site
04.30.08 – Biotech firm VisionGate gets new identity and website
VisionGate, a bio-technology firm focused on developing technologies to assist with lung cancer detection, required a new brand and website to help present their organization and its work online. e&a designed a new logo and website for the company featuring embedded video files and interactive examples of their cell imaging work. Observe the new VisionGate site in action. Visit www.visiongate3d.com
04.17.08 – Mini-Marketing Site for Exposed Skin Care
Savvy internet marketers, Exposed Skin Care, needed an updated design to help position their acne treatment product online. e&a designed a fresh, information-rich layout to help provide consumers with information about a range of acne products. Check it out.
12.11.07 – New Ecommerce Sites for Museum Quality Framing and Beard's Framing
Northwest Framing, a northwest provider of fine art framing solutions, brought in e&a to assist with their venture into the ecommerce marketplace for their Beard's Framing and Museum Quality Framing brands. e&a assisted with site planning, strategy, information design and catalog planning as well as designing and building a notable site. The new sites are expected to increase sales by a significant percentage, as well as increase their retail store customer base over the next year. See the Musuem Quality Framing store in action
12.10.07 – Piworx Launches New Site
Piworx, a technology start-up with offices in Seattle and Bangalore, engaged elephants & ants to help them revise their beta launch site to help improve site visitation and new user sign-ups. Using a collaborative approach, elephants & ants helped restructure the site layout and positioning of information to help showcase the product's unique solution set while working with marketing partner DDJ Collab. The new site will allow for improved traffic analysis and message testing. Visit piworx.com
10.17.07 – King 5 Weather Ad Banners Go Live
King 5, a Seattle television broadcaster, wanted to promote their experienced meteorologists and superior weather technology in an online ad campaign. elephants & ants designed a set of ads highlighting the great weather coverage and the campaign launched online just in time for the season's first big wind storm. Perfect timing indeed.
08.14.07 – New Site for Oasis Environmental
Oasis is a leader in providing environmental consulting services for the mining, gas and oil industries. e&a stepped in to help tell that story with a new brand identity, stationery system, marketing collateral and website for Oasis that is causing their customers to take a new look at this world class firm.
Visit the Oasis Environmental website
08.10.07 – Anderson Advisors Site Redesign Launches
Asset protection gurus, Anderson Advisors, were looking to increase their brand online and help drive new clients for their consulting services, products and seminars. e&a helped redefine their online image with a fresh look and the new site is set to help them grow and grow.
Visit the Anderson Advisors site
07.02.07 – A New Web Presence for Koronis Pharmaceuticals
Biotechnology group, Koronis Pharmaceuticals, needed a new look for their corporate website. A growing researcher of viral inhibitor pharmaceuticals, Koronis wanted their new site to help them communicate their various projects with room to add more information in the future. e&a prepared a revamped site that helped set them on a course for success.
Visit the Koronis site
06.15.07 – New Brochures for Citel
Citel wanted to expand its sales and marketing collateral to include some product specific brochures and e&a deftly designed the new publications. Using a non-standard size with a smart design, the finished brochures were quickly in demand by the sales force and helping tell the Citel story.
03.04.07 – Citel Launches Portico Brand
Portico is a new VoIP hardware solution provided by Citel, The VoIP Migration Company. They came to us with a firm idea of what they wanted their branding to be; friendly, smart, and cohesive with their existing logotype and website. The Portico brand site launched successfully to much fanfare in Las Vegas.
Visit the Citel: Portico site.
01.22.07 – Citel Updates Online Presence, New Site Launches
Citel's rapid growth in the VoIP market required e&a to work vigorously in tandem with their staff to be able to help create a new identity system, web site and marketing collateral. With a revolutionary take on enterprise VoIP solutions Citel's new image is breaking down doors and driving new business.
Visit the Citel site.
02.08.07 – e&a Builds New Expedia Corporate Travel Site
The team at Expedia had their hands full and needed assistance building out a new site for their Corporate Travel division. e& web developers swiftly and precisely coded the site using transitional XHTML with CSS resulting in a clean and fast-loading site build
Visit the Expedia Corporate Travel site.
11.22.06 – Urchin Boutique E-Commerce Site Goes Live
Sophisticated lifestyles require the appropriate accessories and Seattle retailer, Urchin, offers an array of items with cache. In order to bring their unique merchandise to a broader public, Urchin engaged e&a to create an e-commerce store that was as sophisticated as they were.
Visit the Urchin site.
11.05.06 – SBCTC Site Redesign Improves Usability
The Washington State Board of Community & Technical Colleges needed to update its web site to be able to better share resources across the State college system. The new site design improved usability and wayfinding, and consolidated resources into a new site architecture. The addition of a public-oriented area of the site further expanded its reach and communication value for prospective students and colleges alike.
Visit the SBCTC site.
07.27.06 – New Always Running Personal Fitness Site
Always Running, a personal fitness training group located in Seattle, WA, needed a new web site design to help market its services. A vibrant color palette with a broad range of photography and a new look and feel help to anchor the new site. The site also features an updated navigation, a free consult sign-up form and special offers from their strategic partners. All in all a winning site.
Visit the Always Running site.
05.26.06 – BCC Interior Design Department Gets New Site
The Interior Design Department of Bellevue Community College approached e&a about a revised site design. Reviewing the various goals of the site, e&a came up with a fresh new look with clearer navigation that really helps walk prospective students through the various program details. The new site launched in conjunction with the announcement of the program's acceptance by the Council on Interior Design Accreditation. Visit the BCC Interior Design site.
02.01.06 – Beecher's Site Featured in Create Magazine
Beecher's Handmade Cheese site was featured in the Spring 2006 issue of Create Magazine in the Pacific Northwest edition's Surf column.
01.25.06 – E&A Founder Speaks to College Communications Leaders
e&a founder Ann Donovan presented at a recent web marketing workshop organized by the WA State Board of Community & Technical Colleges. The audience consisted of communications leadership from across the state system who were interested in learning more about how to market their programs via the Internet.
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