Web Design Case Studies

Governmental Consultant Services, Inc.

Project Summary: Governmental Consultant Services, Inc. (GCSI) was shopping for a web design firm who could handle the redesign of their old, antiquated site. As the state capitol’s #1 ranked lobbying firm, GCSI wanted something that spoke more to the high-caliber work they were doing for their clients, who included AT&T, Sparrow Health System, Detroit Zoological Society and the City of Grand Rapids...

Solution: web design, web development, web hosting, project management software, Joomla content management system, search engine optimization (SEO), search engine registration, and establish weekly traffic reporting.

Case study: political web design

American Property Services

Project Summary: American Property Services, of Grand Ledge, Michigan, has launched a property listings search tool from the company’s real estate services website, making it easy for site visitors to conduct online property searches of Greater Lansing and the mid-Michigan area. People searching for homes have access to thousands of the most up-to-date property listings on the Lansing market, including detailed property information, list prices and photos, without ever leaving the American Property Services website...

Solution: web design, web development, web hosting, MLS IDX software, Joomla content management system, search engine optimization (SEO), search engine registration, and establish weekly traffic reporting.

Case study: MLS IDX real estate listing software

Ingham County

Project Summary: The purpose of this redesigned website was to offer a fresh look for Ingham County’s online presence. The County originally wished to have a common "look and feel" to the entire website, but allow their 32 departments to have a "departmental" variation to the common look.  The chosen web design firm was to deliver one master web template compatible with both Dreamweaver and Expression Web software. The site would have links for businesses, visitors, citizens and government services...

Solution: web design, Expression web template, Dreamweaver web template, logo design

Case study: county web design

University Quality Inn Hotel

Project Summary (from the client): "I began working at the University Quality Inn in October of 2008 and was amazed that when I took over no one really knew how to update our web site. It took me several long months of trying to get information from our web site provider before I could finally get on the site. I found it extremely difficult to get our provider to offer any information and everything took several phone calls to get answers. The final straw came when one day out of the blue, I could no longer get into the site where we make changes. It took me a week and a half to get any kind of an answer from our provider as to what the problem might be..."

Solution: web hosting, web design, Joomla content management system, search engine optimization (SEO), search engine registration, and establish weekly traffic reporting.

Case study: hotel web design

SCW Agency Group, Inc. and KMA Insurance

Project Summary: When the SCW Agency Group, Inc.—an insurance agency specializing in professional liability insurance for the medical profession— contacted us to see if we wanted to take part in a competitive bid for the redesign of their website, we jumped at the chance. The site they had was okay, they said, but the agency didn’t feel it was reflective of their organization and this was after having recently had it redone.

Solution: web hosting, web design, Joomla content management system, search engine optimization (SEO), search engine registration, and establish weekly traffic reporting.

Case study: insurance agency web design

BMW Car Club of America

Project Summary: One of the largest and most prestigious car clubs in the US asked us to tackle the massive task of orchestrating their new website. The existing site had grown out of a few pages into disheveled hundreds. Within two months, this 300+ page site containing over 1,000 links was redeveloped with a sharp, cohesive look that was easy to navigate, and aided their 50,000 members in being part of the global BMW phenomenon.

Solution: web hosting, web design, search engine optimization (SEO), search engine registration, and establish weekly traffic reporting.

MiWiFi, State of Michigan WiFi Marketing Initiative

Project Summary: Matt Schoenherr led the development of marketing strategy and collateral for the MiWiFi project, a joint venture between the state of Michigan Departments of Natural Resources, Information Technology, and Transportation, partnering with SBC Communications (NYSE:SBC) and Intel (NasdaqNM:INTC), to bring wireless broadband to Michigan’s public. Deliverables included branding and marketing strategies, logo development, a two-sided information card, window clings, and a website (www.michigan.gov/wifi/) to act as the entry point for wireless users.

Solution: branding strategy, marketing strategy, logo development, web design, graphic design, print collateral production and coordination.