Websites are a professional necessity in today’s highly competitive virtual world. With just the click of a button, anyone can buy anything from anywhere. Information on literally every subject is mere seconds away.
So how are you going to make sure your website comes out of the tangle on top? How do you ensure that what you have to offer is going to stand out in a crowded global marketplace?
In an era where the average person does the majority of their business with people (or non-people) they have never even met, I say the best way to move your business forward is to take a step back.
Fotan Web and Graphic Design offers a global reach with a personal touch. I believe in doing things the old-fashioned way–in knowing names, shaking hands, telling a few jokes and in truly listening. If you want your business to be a part of the future but like the way things were done in the past, please contact me. At the very least you’ll talk to a real person, and you might even make a new friend.
One Perfect Hero
| Portfolio
This is a fairly basic website for a local author who wanted to be able to post excerpts from her book, announce appearances and link to different places on the web where her book could be purchased. I gave her everything she wanted, and a little more. Nice basic design, but very easy to navigate and easy on the eyes.
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Integrity Team Real Estate Services
| WordPress Blogs
Integrity finally got tired of paying hundreds of dollars a month for a cookie cutter website that looked just like everyone else's. When I met with Janet she was looking for something to make her stand apart from the competition. As a successful real estate broker she had been meticulous in the design of her business cards, her signs, her new office in downtown Roseburg. She wanted clean lines, classy, something that would really catch the eye. I think I did a pretty good job. Wh
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Century 21 The Neil Company Real Estate
| Self-Managed Websites
I took over development or The Neil Company in about 2005 or 2006. Since then I've done 3 total redesigns. Franchises like this are a challenge because you have to take the client's wishes for design and make it work within the legal constraints of the marketing guidelines of the parent company. Along with all the normal IDX stuff, Neil Company also wanted to be able to add/edit/delete broker bios from their website on their own. As time went on, it morphed from a very basic name, phone
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All State Real Estate
| Real Estate and Property Management
All State Real Estate called me in a bit of a panic. They had had two different local web guys work on a new design for their website. Between the two, it had been almost a year. Then, suddenly, their email was down and they couldn't search listings, or even show their own. Big problem for a real estate company. I was able to give them the design they wanted, email that actually worked and full RMLS listing search within a week. Some other cool features I was able to give them are:
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Illahee Ranch
| Real Estate and Property Management
This is a second single property website for Jennifer Cramer with Prudential Roseburg and Bill Woods. Bill wanted to be able to showcase the beauty and privacy of his property. What better way than with a custom website and a photo gallery?
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Permanent Cosmetics NW
| Self-Managed Websites
Permanent Cosmetics NW, located in Eugene, OR, is among the leaders of the Permanent Cosmetic industry in the Northwest. When they needed a website they could manage and update themselves, they called me. I was able to give them a custom WordPress site with slideshows and testimonials that they could manage 100% on their own. They are now able to add testimonials, change text, add/remove pages, change colors and manage the slideshows of their procedures without any intervention on my part.
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Sadler Aircraft Blog
| WordPress Blogs
Sadler's website needed a way to be kept updated, but the original design was 100% Flash. No good for quick, easy updates. (I hate Flash, if I haven't mentioned that…) A custom blog seemed like just the thing. This was before WordPress was as easy as it is now. Creating a theme that matched their website required days of staring at thousands of lines of code. In the end, we matched it almost exactly. The end result included a blog they updated a couple times a week, a newsletter
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Environne - Fruit & Vegetable Wash
| Portfolio
Environne is a local company that makes and sells products that remove potentially harmful pesticides and chemicals from fruit and vegetables. They came to me to implement a design they had created by a marketing firm. I was able to create the website from story boards, add on their shopping cart, contact form, dealer locator and social networking plugins and keep it all clean and tidy. Environne tried working with several larger firms before finally coming to me. They've been with me
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Real Estate Websites (RMLS IDX)
| Real Estate and Property Management
My bread and butter is in creating custom real estate websites for realtors and brokers in Oregon and southern Washington. I'm a registered IDX provider with the RMLS and can provide full search capabilities for your site viewers. Perhaps my biggest asset to you, the broker, is my custom design work. While my websites aren’t made to be updated every 5 minutes by you or your secretary (HUGE waste of time, by the way) they are designed to give you your own look while adhering to the often s
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SwiftEngines.com
| Portfolio
So, I get this call one day. Mr. Swift needs a website to sell his dad's model airplane engine collection. Apparently there's a whole subculture out there of people who buy and sell model airplane engines. Whowouldathunkit? We had a coffee, he showed me a list of the engines he needs to sell. 440 of them. I didn't even know there were 440 kinds of engines. Apparently there are thousands and some of them are pretty cool looking. Anyway, I did a simple design, database driven inven
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Winery Website Proof of Concept
| Wineries
With the boom in wine making and the explosion of wineries all over Oregon, I would love to be able to provide several different services to wineries. I have created a website as a proof of concept with the hopes that it will generate some interest. As you may or may not be able to see from the screenshot, the site has many features that should be helpful to any size winery. Custom design with any color scheme you like as well as a templating system that will allow you to totally change
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Mercy Medical Center - Nampa, ID
| Portfolio
Mercy Hospital in Nampa Idaho is a client of BBG Marketing. Mercy wanted a calendar created for their website so they could input events and have them come up in order with certain details, like time, duration and location. At the time there just weren't any open source applications to install, so I wrote them custom application to suit their needs. It was pretty cool. They could add, edit and duplicate events with a few clicks and they would display through the day of the event, then di
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Winston Area Community Partnership
| Self-Managed Websites
This is actually the second version of this website. When I did the first, they didn't have much budget and didn't really know how much they would use their website. They asked for a pretty static site and, to be honest, WordPress hadn't really become a functional Content Management System yet. After having a website for a few years they had a much better idea what they wanted and how they could use it. I sat down with them, listened to their needs and we decided that WordPress was defin
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Waterstone Crossing
| Real Estate and Property Management
This was a website done for a single property. Not that unusual these days, but back in 2005, it was almost unheard of. Jennifer Cramer with Prudential here in Roseburg came to me when her client, Bill Woods, expressed an interest in thinking outside the box a bit. We worked together to put this site together and I think it came out great! Heavy on design it really showcased the features of the townhouses they were selling. Since then I have done several other websites for Bill an
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Valley Credit Service
| Portfolio
This is a site I just finished. It's a custom WordPress conversion. I know, I know. I've done a bunch of them now. This on had to include a way to embed a special client application served from a secure server inside the WordPress framework. Tech stuff aside, it really wasn't as difficult as I thought it was going to be and it came out great. The site includes some of the basics, like custom background and header, highly modified WordPress theme, self-managed testimonials, some cust
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