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Below are a few examples of sites nLightened Design has created. Next to each example is a case study describing the challenges, solutions, and various specific needs pertaining to the client.
Local Town Coupons' mission is to provide real Massachusetts local coupons. Unlike other online coupon sites where you may find coupons from San Fransisco to New York and not one coupon closer than 50 miles, we provide personal, local coupons. Unlike other popular coupon sites we offer our services for a flat rate. This means that businesses can budget their advertising and allows us to provide you with savings while assuring local businesses that each used coupon is not a negative profit as is common with other services. Our coupons will help your family save money while still providing business to local entrepreneurs that will help stimulate our local economy. Feel free to browse our coupons by town, product, or by service and we encourage you to print as many as you need.
Animal adventures offers hands-on exotic animal programs that are a fun learning experience no matter what the occasion. With their exotic animals and expertise they can put on a show that will always be remembered for you.
When Animal Adventures contacted me one of their chief complaints was the delay in getting events placed on their website. By providing a turnkey web solution nLightened Design has prevented this issue from reoccurring by allowing Animal Adventures to upload events, blog posts, gallery images and more.
Franklin town news is a community newspaper. It was published to create a forum for the community to reach out and be heard. It provides the community with an event calendar to view upcoming events, a community page that compiles a list of locally important websites, the police logs, and a forum for discussing current events and submitting articles.
Bushell Piano Movers is a well known and respected company that sells and moves pianos. When their site was infected by malware and viruses it was essential that they clean it up quickly to protect their customers so they contacted nLightened Design. With clean-up being completed within 24 hours and rebuilding taking a week they couldn't be happier with switching to nLightened Design for their web service needs.
Leah contacted nLightened Design looking for a website that would allow her to showcase artwork. At galleries and other art shows Leah was unable to provide a website so people could browse her other works.
Providing a simple, clean website allows the work to stand out when people peruse the collection enticing people to purchase the work.
The client needed his twitter account linked with the website and wanted to be able to start forum discussions and moderate spam submissions, all of which was provided promptly.
Design: The owner of Green Woman's Garden requested a custom design for her business. A nice theme was found that matched her interests and was tailored to her business.
Logo: The client drew her logo by hand. nLightened Design took her design and translated it to a digital format. This brought personality to her website and created a unique look for her business cards.
Menu: The navigation bar at the top of each page was custom designed at the clients request. This created a corresponding theme between logo and web page that blended nicely the design scheme. She also received a side-menu that made her site accessible for text-only browsers. The side-menu allows her site to be reached by the widest range of potential customers.
Content Management: This website has several pages that require frequent updates. After a discussion of site options, it was clear that portions of her site would need to be updated more frequently than the monthly site maintenance provided by nLightened Design. For this reason nLightened Design installed a content management system that allowed her to personally update the site with information for her monthly newsletter, upcoming events, herb spotlights, and travel news.
Event Calendar: This client leads workshops on a regular basis and needed a website that would keep her clients up to date with upcoming events. nLightened Design equipped her with a calendar to highlight important events.
Event Registration: nLightened Design also setup a custom page that allows her clients to register for her workshops. This makes it easy to exchange additional information.
Business Card: With a new site and email address, business cards made it possible for her to reach her clients with correct information. nLightened Design formatted and printed a business card with her original logo and business information.
Design: The client already owned the site and just required some modifications. Changes included a new logo, updating the menu so pages could be added and removed easily, and new photos added to existing pages.
Functionality: The pages were converted to php to allow the menu to be kept separate and allow future updates to change the number of pages faster and more cost effective.
Design: Car Custodian wanted an nLightened Design template. We customized the template with their logo.
Eye on Repair: One of the main goals of the Car Custodian website was to provide customers with an opportunity to view their car as it was being repaired in the shop from their home computer. This feature of the website was established by customizing the content management system to allow the owners of Car Custodian to post pictures of their work for their clients.
Forms: Car Custodian rents out Budget trucks. Since Budget does not provide a link from Car Custodian back to their site, nLightened Design developed a form that would allow customers to email Car Custodian and confirm a truck rental.
Design: The Daily Bread requested a standard template design with custom colors. nLightened Design altered the same template used for Car Custodian and redesigned the overall theme so it would better represent the bakery and match their logo.
Daily Special: The Daily Bread is both a bakery and a restaurant that offers fresh specials every day. For this reason nLightened Design implemented a content management system to allow The Daily Bread to update their specials on a daily basis as well as keep their bakery news up to date.
Favicon: The favicon is the small picture that resides next to the website address. nLightened Design provided a custom Favicon design for the Daily Bread website that was matched to their business logo.
Design: nLightened Design implemented a custom design for the entire site.
Forum: Anticipating heavy traffic to the Gameping website, nLightened Design installed a heavy duty forum module capable of handling the traffic.
Custom Functionality: The Dotastats portion of the site is a custom application that was developed in-house to track the stats of users in a third-party game. The stats page is database driven and receives data in real-time from the game.
More examples can be provided on request.