Posts Tagged ‘Web Site Design’

A Golden Web Site

Monday, January 16th, 2012

The last couple months of 2011, the DCJ crew had the pleasure of working with Ashland builder/designer John Fields in the construction of – not a building – but a stunning portfolio of John’s company, Golden Fields Construction. A local leader in the sustainable building movement, Golden-Fields Construction has been providing residential and commercial construction in Southern Oregon for three decades, and for 2012 they wanted to share their construction and green building skills to more folks via the internet.

John Fields is a quiet and inspired business person who wanted his new web site to have some fairly straight forward functions. He wanted a site that would do the following:

  • Be informative and easy to use
  • Be attractive and maintain the Golden Fields design and brand
  • Reflect the philosophy and high quality of the services offered by Golden Fields
  • Have flexible options to keep the site current for years
  • Be optimized for search engine marketing and keyword targeting
  • Have photos, graphics, videos, press releases and an intergrated blog
  • And, oh yeah,  it needed to be affordable

Take a look at a sampling of what the DCJ team and John collaborated on and created, or better yet – visit his new beautiful site:  http://www.golden-fields.net/

And if you happen to bump into John Fields while strolling through Ashland, be sure to congratulate him on his new year’s baby. Launching a new site, like building a sustainable home, is no small achievement and deserves plenty of applause. Hip hip hooray!


Jasmine 1024x788 A Golden Web Site

Green Building 1024x826 A Golden Web Site

Clear Creek 1024x805 A Golden Web Site

share save 171 16 A Golden Web Site

Entering the Dotcomjungle…jungle.

Monday, December 19th, 2011

(A guest blog post  by Jamie Sandhurst)

Some time around the middle of September this year, (coincidentally right after a recreational trip back to my hometown of Minneapolis,) I found myself in a monetary pit of despair, (yes, this is a Princess Bride reference.) Now, I must preface with the fact that I currently live with my Grandmother…for free. So I had two options: either I found a cheaper lifestyle and somewhere to live that was…more free?…or I needed to find another job.

Finding a job, in itself, is a daunting task. And then once you’ve found a job, you generally have to deal with the adjustments inherent in a new work environment. For these reasons alone, I feel it was downright serendipitous that Dotcomjungle decided to place an ad on Craigslist for their new Design Internship position. Ever since coming onboard this kick ass ship, I have felt welcome, challenged, and comfortable enough to be myself.

(more…)

share save 171 16 Entering the Dotcomjungle…jungle.

Doing the Limbo

Monday, December 12th, 2011

I was speaking yesterday with the owner of Cash Flow Heaven, Peter Schultz, and we continued with a half-joking thread of conversation that we have been having for almost a year since Dotcomjungle first started working with them.  The thread was about the low-quality of service, support, and finished product provided by most web developers, both inside of  the Rogue Valley and out. For their part, CFH has worked with numerous web developers all over the country and never received the service and support they needed to avoid numerous, obvious-in-hindsight, technical issues – ALL of them caused by web site technicians who either could not see the big picture, didn’t understand the limitations of the software they were implementing, or sadly, both. (more…)

share save 171 16 Doing the Limbo

DCJ New & Improved!

Monday, November 14th, 2011

A month ago, Dotcomjungle brought two brand new interns on staff. They are not only exceptional learners and practitioners in the web design and development profession, they are damned fine human beings. They are both open-hearted, imaginative, inquisitive, saucy, confident, careful – but not afraid and truly nice without being sticky sweet. We like ‘em, and want to brag about how cool Jamie Sndhurst and Julian Sherr really are.

(more…)

share save 171 16 DCJ New & Improved!

Client Profile: Geos Institute

Monday, October 3rd, 2011

Do you ever wonder what drives a well-established business with a working web site to want a NEW! and IMPROVED!! web site? We’ve decided to occasionally share some client profiles here on the DCJ blog. These snapshots will tell you a little something about our client, what challenges they were dealing with on their old site, what they hoped for and DCJ recommended in a new site, and how we continue to collaborate and support each other’s incredible success You can read more profiles on DCJ’s Web Portfolio.

geos Client Profile: Geos Institute

Who Is Geos Institute? The Geos Institute is a nonprofit organization and consulting firm that uses science to help people predict, reduce, and prepare for climate change.  To this end, the Geos Institute brings the best available science to community and natural resource planning processes, through its publications, community workshops, and bridge building between respected scientists and decision makers.

Challenges: Their information-rich science and research team wanted a web site where they could truly display their content in an organized fashion and be able to update it regularly. Previously know as The National Center for Science, Conservation and Policy, they were going through a rebranding process as they were developing their web site and asked Dotcomjungle to join the process for our keen insights into how this important decision would affect their web site and how it was organized and designed.

(more…)

share save 171 16 Client Profile: Geos Institute