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.
Waterstone Crossing
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Waterstone was a townhouse renovation by Bill Woods. He needed a website to advertise the real estate aspects of the development so he could sell them as they became available. I worked with a photographer and graphic designer to put her ideas into web form. I always thought it was a very well designed site. As you hover over the thumbnails around the outside of the Waterstone Crossing sign photo, the photo changes to a full size version of the thumbnail. Pretty cool at the time.
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Umpqua Community College Foundation
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The UCC Foundation wanted a website where they could send students to fill out scholarship and grant paperwork. The main idea was to allow the students to fill out their criteria information online, then have a way to export the information so the Foundation folks could sort and look at the information in a more useful way. In the past, they had to take paper applications and type the criteria information into a spreadsheet. Very time consuming when you have several hundred applicants and
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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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Mercy Medical Center - Nampa, ID
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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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Environne - Fruit & Vegetable Wash
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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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Downtown Roseburg Association
| Self-Managed Websites
This is a custom WordPress site I did for the local Downtown Association. They wanted something that didn't cost a fortune that they could keep updated themselves. I was able to do a custom layout, event calendar, photo gallery, slideshows, document manager and many other things in pretty short order and cheap enough that I don't even want to tell you what I gave it to them for. :) If you need a website that you can keep updated yourself, a custom WordPress site is perfect in most cases
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One Perfect Hero
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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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Winston Area Community Partnership
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Work included a redesign for the local non-profit The Winston Area Community Partnership. I did the original redesign a few years ago, but times change and they needed the ability to update their website more often and without having to budget for it. What I did for them was create a custom WordPress blog with their design and some special plugins that allow them to manage an event list and calendar. They also have the ability to place slideshows anywhere they like and create both static p
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Greg Russell Loans
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Greg Russell is a local guy who makes property loans to people who can't probably go to a bank. His site needed a clean, professional look and needed to come up in Google. I think the design I came up with fit the bill. Pretty basic on tech. No databases or scripting to speak of. Easy to navigate and get the information you needed though.
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02BrandonAshRacing.com
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This is a site that I did for Brandon Ash, a locally raised NASCAR driver. The site includes a custom blog, social networking links, race information and a place for distributors of his main sponsor’s product to donate money to the team.
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Weathering Springs
| Self-Managed Websites
Cassie Soule, the horse whisperer of Douglas County (not really, I just call her that) needed a website to do some passive marketing as well as list horses for sale and announce upcoming events at her ranch. When she was selected to take part in the Mustang Challenge (kind of a big deal, if you're in the horse world) she also needed a way to post regular updates to keep her sponsors in the loop. I created a custom WordPress Blog that matched her site design and allowed her an easy way to mak
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Simply-Automated Home Automation Solutions
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"The mission of Simply Automated is to be the leader in the research and development of simple, flexible, cost effective and technologically advanced solutions in the automation, lighting control and energy savings market – taking pride in being a customer friendly company that listens to our customers and provides optimum solutions for the marketplace. " When they need a new look, they came to me through a referral from an old friend. The design work was mostly done, but they needed to ta
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Valley Credit Service
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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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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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