Gwire Law Offices: 2005-Present

Bill Gwire is a legal malpractice attorney in San Francisco. He hired Jeremy to Develop the Gwire Law Offices website back in 2005. Jeremy has remained the webmaster for this site and has updated it ever since.

The Stewardship Report: 2010

Jeremy was hired by a New York client to design, develop, implement and test a complex news website for a large charity organization on the east coast.

The website was to have membership capabilities, search functionality, front-end and back-end administrative capabilities, multiple levels of user access and restrictions, flash presentations, video functionality, photo galleries (which had to be editable on the front-end), rss feeds, social network website connectivity, comments, slideshows, tags, animated tabbed content, and translated pages.

The site needed to retain a professional look and feel similar to the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. Client requested that the site be scalable to thousands of users and articles. Client requested that thousands of prior archived articles, photos and tags be imported into the new website into sections from a mySQL database.

Jeremy designed, built, installed and tested the website with all requested imported content in less than two weeks using the Joomla CMS.

 

LooLeDo: 2010

Jeremy was hired by a Bay Area firm to design and develop a craft website for kids, parents, teachers, and educators. The website was meant to compete with successful craft websites that get hundreds of thousands of unique vists a month.

Jeremy used Joomla and multiple recently developed components and modules to develop a website that included a

  • Flickr-like Photo section where users could upload and share their own photos and instructions
  • Youtube-like Video section where users could upload, import and convert their own craft videos
  • Social Networking component similar to Facebook, which allwed users to connect with other users, comment on each other's projects, photos, and videos
  • E-commerce functionality for the purchase of online and physical content
  • A forum
  • Continually updated videos and step-bystep instructions of hundreds of crafts for kids

In addition, Jeremy was also responsible for all internet marketing aspects of the site, bringing it to page 1 on Google for the search term "fun kids crafts" using internet marketing strategies. These included:

  • Press releases
  • Google Adwords
  • Inbound links
  • Website SEO
  • URL-rewriting
  • Social Networking Marketing
  • Search Engine submission and Directory Submission
  • Keyword analysis
  • Mailing List optin with 25,000 members
  • Email blasts

 

Angéle Restaurant

Jeremy was hired to design and develop an elegant website for a Napa valley restaurant. The website was supposed to evoke some of the same sophisticated design elements seen in other Napa restaurants, but still retain the unique character of the type of cuisine the restaurant specializes in.

The website was done in Flash as opposed to HTML because it allows for a more elegant presentation of text, such as the large menus, and smooth animation in various places throughout the site.

 

Lura Glo

Lura Glo Studios is a real estate development project in Oakland, California. Part of a number of projects completed for Caldecott Properties, Jeremy's task was to design and create a small, flash-based website with minimal but subtle animation that would evoke a sense of upscale urban living and sophistication.

The text of the website is all editable by the client using a simple text editor with no HTML knowledge required. An animated photo gallery is also included.

 

Mustards Grill 

Jeremy was hired to design and develop websites for a group of three restaurants in Napa Valley. The Mustards Grill site is the second of these three. The client requested the website to retain the same look and feel of the Mustards Grill cookbook, and for each section to look like it was a separate page. 

The website was created in Flash, but each section is editable by the client using a text editor on the hosting company's site, so no HTML knowledge is needed by the client.

In 2006 Jeremy was hired to design and develop a large personal finance information website. All content was written by the client, a personal finance consultant, and meant to be a central information repository for personal finance tutorials. 

Jeremy was tasked with developing the architecture for a large amount of content; designing a navigation system that would allow for easy access of content; designing the site in an appealing fashion that was not too cluttered and which allowed the presentation of large amounts of information; and the complete development of the site using HTML and CSS.

 

Go Fish Sushi

Go Fish Sushi Restaurant is a high-end sushi restaurant in the Napa Valley area, and is part of the same group that includes Mustards Grill. Jeremy was hired to design and develop a Flash-based website that would evoke a feeling of Japanese sensibilities and a refined rusticness.

The sushi there is excellent, by the way.

  

The Haven Street Lofts

The Haven Street Lofts is part of a group of real estate development websites designed by Jeremy and built for Caldecott Properties in Oakland, CA. As with some of the other Caldecott sites, Jeremy was tasked to design the site to provide a sense of urban living for young professionals in an area that is consistently competing with San Francisco's real estate market.

There are a number of images of urban living as well as gallery shots of the interior, and the fonts, colors and site layout were inspired by the lines that Adidas often uses in their product branding.

 

The Montclair

Another site built for Caldecott Properties, the design of this site also attempted to evince a sense of urban living.

Sites like this one are not optimized for search engines for a reason. The client gets most of its clickthroughs from mailing lists to potential customers. There is no live text for the search engines to Index. The sites still show up in search engines, but are not meant to be the first item that shows up when a user searches for Oakland Real Estate, for example.

Jeremy works with each client to determine, before any design decisions are made, specifically who the audience is and the importance of search engine results for the site. In cases where this is important, and the client feels that the majority of the business to the site will arrive via a keyword search, design and development considerations must be made to ensure the site will be properly indexed with Google over time.

 

Allen Consulting

Jeremy often works with other designers to implement their vision. In this case, he partnered with Peter Allen of Allen Consulting to develop a hybrid website, with a flash into and some flash elements throughout the site. Peter Allen is a well-known figure in the Bay Area marketing and branding design community, and he wanted his site to reflect the depth of work that he has acheived over many years. The design was provided by Allen Consulting, and the site built by Jeremy.

 

Anthem Worldwide

BlueMint was a design and branding firm in San Francisco that was purchased by Anthem Worldwide in 2004. As part of the merger, a redevelopment of the website was required, and the client was happy to have the site done in Flash because of the nature of the subtle animations and transitions employed throughout the site.

Initially the site contained an introduction, although that has been removed, and a number of content changes have been made to the site since then. The current site is still essentially the same look and feel and functionality as when Jeremy originally built it. The site design and all elements were provided by Anthem, and the site was tested to run on multiple platforms at high speed.

 

Iconic Sport

In 2009 Jeremy was hired by Long Design to redevelop an existing website for a women's golf clothing company. The revised design was similar to the older one, but numerous additional design elements were added that in effect necessitated a rebuilding of the entire site from scratch.

 

King 888

Jeremy worked with Bob Hullinger, a designer in Berkeley, CA, to develop a flash-based website for a new energy drink, King 888. The site had a number of animation transitions and required the addition of audio. The company has gone through a number of designs since the original one in an attempt to stay dynamic as an energy drink site.

 

Howard Thornton

Jeremy used a design provided by Bob Hullinger, a designer in Berkeley, CA, to develop the basic site for Howard Thornton, a interior furnishings company in San Francisco.

 

ZAK Architecture

A design provided by BlueMint Associates was used as the basis for ZAK Architecture, a firm in San Francisco. The site was done completely in Flash because of the animations and transitions required by the design.