Site Scoops: Stories behind recent sites changes at Prospectus Web | Prospectus Web Development
 


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 • AmeriSIPs
 • Ultimate Healer
 • Shirttails
 • BodyTonique
 • CatInnAround
 • JW Shirtworks

Site Scoops: Stories behind recent sites changes

Scroll down to read some descriptions and updates of recent web-site development projects. If you are looking for a web-site consider the diversity of techniques we used to make each site unique. Consider also, how these different elements can be recombined to make your custom web-site.

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Walls Evolve – Wallsev.com

Wallsev is a wallpaper site where viewers can download interesting backgrounds for their computer or mobile devices. Originally the site had great stats: 29,000 monthly visitors with 62,000 pageviews and an awesome Alexa rating of 324,856! The original site had 2,120 posts or wallpapers. Alarmingly, it had over 25,000 tags for those 2,100 posts. Google confirmed the site had 25,000 pages indexed. After a lot of research, we reduced the tags to just over 10,000 by combining several similar tags.

Our client purchased the Wallsev.com website in late August. After inspection we determined that several parts of the site were not working correctly. The theme’s backend was not functional … changes did not affect the site. The 5-star rating system was also not working. A search for a replacement theme ensued and several themes were purchased and installed. Finally, the Whitewall theme was the clear favorite. It offered the option to create many sized wallpapers from the original image and the option to create custom Facebook, Twitter and Google+ page headers. And, as seen above, presented a delightful format.

The transition to the Whitewall theme was not as painless as anticipated. A development site was built to test everything before transforming the ‘live site’ however; the live site did not act exactly like the development site. After several attempts and repairs, the site was successfully migrated in mid-November. The daily visitors dropped form about 1,000 per day to about 700, mostly as a result of the missing tags. Ouch! Oct-Dec Stats for WallsEvolveMeanwhile, pageviews grew significantly as viewers found it easier to search and view the wallpaper images. By mid-December the daily visitors have returned to about 1,000 per day and pageviews are over 2,600 (79K/mnth). All this summarizes a successful transformation and winning project. Check out the site here and, while you’re there ‘evolve your screen.’


AmeriSIPs.com

The AmeriSIPs site was successfully converted to a WordPress site in the Spring of 2013. Since then there have been many updates for a new site to be launched in the near future. This site make extensive use of background images to help convey their story. AmeriSIPs offers advance building systems to the Charleston SC market with homes having minimal or no energy cost. Zero Energy homes are in increasing demand as energy costs rise. AmeriSIPS is an very informative site you can see here. Keep checking-back for the launch of the revised site.
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    Creative Options

  • Front Page Slider
  • Background Images
  • Special Landing Pages
  • Extensive Information


UltimateHealer.com



Ultimate Healer offers information about using your subconscious mind to heal your body. The site has a lot of in-depth articles about meditation and using subliminal messages in music and meditation. It is designed with a strong color theme set above a coordinated background image. The effect is the site floating in space over a purple nebula. The site is popular and and continues to see steady growth since the complete redesigned. Click here to check-out the Ultimate Healer.

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    Creative Techniques

  • Rotating Headers
  • Background Image
  • Dramatic Color Theme


ShirtTails.net


ShirtTails, one of our oldest sites, is an eCommerce site selling unique embroidered fishing apparel. The Spring of 2014 saw a complete redesign including a new theme, new product page and updating every image. The redesign also streamlined the ordering process and simplified finding products. Click here to visit ShirtTails.net

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    Creative Techniques

  • Header Sliders
  • eCommerce Store
  • Background Images


BodyTonique.com

The BodyTonique.com sites was launched the Spring of 2013 and has continued to gain momentum. BodyTonique offers an organic body spray that is ‘a drink for your thirsty skin.’ The BodyTonique team, headed by Liz Barringer, has been hard at work developing new products and this Fall will see the addition of many new products to the site. Body Tonique has many testimonials and they are prominently featured on the site in a rotating area on the front page. Google gives lots of authority to testimonials. BodyTonique is an interesting ‘one product’ ecommerce site you can see here. Keep checking-back for the launch of the revised site.

CatInnAround.com


CatInnAround is about the exploits of the 48-foot catamaran Cat Inn Around. The site uses a unique ‘sliding header navigation’ to access the first of five main pages. As the user hovers over the header image the sections slide – expand, clicking them opens the page. The image on the right is a fully functional miniaturized site, whenhover your mouse to see the sliding header. Notice the rotating background images. The site is on the “Ship’s Log” page (Home Page), if you scroll down to the site’s first post, Cat Inn Around Intro Video, and click the play button you can watch an engaging video showing her running off the Florida Keys.

Check out a full sized version of the site here.

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    Creative Techniques & Options

  • Header Navigation
  • Rotating Background Images
  • Coordinated Color Theme
  • Video Production
  • Logo Design

Mini ‘Live’ Site


JWShirtWorks.com


The JW ShirtWorks site features a unique font page slide presentation describing the many services offered by JW ShirtWorks. They offer custom embroidery and screen printing as well as a line of Tee shirts sold on-line and in the Marketplace downtown Charleston, SC. Each of their services pages use different background images. Check out the site here.

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    Creative Techniques

  • Full Page Slider
  • Font Page Landing Page
  • On-Line Quote Form
  • Background Images

There are several site in the ‘site development’ stage and this page will be updated when they launch.
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