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.
Winston Area Community Partnership
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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Real Estate Websites (RMLS IDX)
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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Total Archive
This is my first plugin. Pretty simple really. I needed something that would allow one of my clients to create an archive of their whole WP site and database, then download it so it didn't take up a bunch of space on my server. A few things to keep in mind. I wrote this for my server. Your mileage may vary. I'm running a LAMP server with all latest stable releases (PHP 5.3+, MySQL 5+, Apache 2+) and gzip installed. That may or may not be important. I'm no server guy. All I know for certain is
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American Home Lending
This was my first PHP-based site. Took me days and days to do what I can do in about 5 minutes now. Gotta learn somewhere though, right? The design is horribly dated by today's standards, but back in 2003, or so, it was quite nice. The PHP included a small database that let them update mortgage rates several times a day. Again, pretty simple, but back then databases were for eBay and Amazon. Not small town mortgage companies. :)
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AJD Engineering
This one was kind of a no brainer. AJD is my brother, Allen. When he needed a website for his engineering firm, who else would he call? Even so, I didn't want to just do something really simple for him. I wanted to give him something trendy, cool and useful. I think I did a pretty good job of it. The drawing in the background is actually one of Allen's. I just took the Acad dwg file and did a little graphics work with it. The slideshow uses Flash (I know, I know) but does it
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The Douglas Interagency Narcotics Team
This was my first website EVER. Doesn't look like much now, but in 2001 it was quite the site. :) Flash accordion menu, a page for arrest photos and press releases, lots of graphics work. Those were the good old days when everything was hand coded. No databases, no Dreamweaver, no PHP.
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Weathering Springs
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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Custom WordPress Sites
So, you may have noticed, if you’re reading this on my site (fotan.net) that it looks remarkably like a real website. But, you say, “This is WordPress. How can this be?” :) Enough with the theatrics, huh? One of the things I have found a real niche in is developing WordPress sites that integrate seamlessly into your current website, or that even replaces your current website. Our portfolio has several examples. Just hit the “Blogs” link in our portfolio list on the right
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Umpqua Community College Foundation
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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All State Real Estate
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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Puget Sound Platter
PSP is a site all about the food scene in the Puget Sound area. Karen, the owner, is quite the foodie and wanted to be able to share all the great local food related happenings as well as write-ups about local restaurants, pubs, cooking schools… Pretty much everything food related, but with a local focus. The site is pretty straight forward except that she needed a way to compile her own lists of establishments and wanted to be able to sort them her own way. What I ended up doing was
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Weathering Springs
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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All Oregon Real Estate
This was a kind of cool site because it had so much design work associated with it. The broker wanted some largish (I say largish because, at the time they were big, but these days they're pretty small) as a backdrop for the whole site. All in all, not a big deal, but in order to see as much of the photo as we could, I had to make the area that main body of the site went in semitransparent. Again, easy these days. Not so much back then. All Oregon Real Estate is no longer a viable
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Permanent Cosmetics NW
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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Puget Sound Platter
PSP is a site all about the food scene in the Puget Sound area. Karen, the owner, is quite the foodie and wanted to be able to share all the great local food related happenings as well as write-ups about local restaurants, pubs, cooking schools… Pretty much everything food related, but with a local focus. The site is pretty straight forward except that she needed a way to compile her own lists of establishments and wanted to be able to sort them her own way. What I ended up doing was
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