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.
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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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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Greg Russell Loans
| Portfolio
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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Ginkgo Doors
| Portfolio
Charlie makes awesome Arts and Crafts style doors! What Charlie doesn't do is make websites. He needed someplace to point people from print ads he places in trade magazines. The first thing he did was contact Gary Leif with Leif Photography here in Roseburg. Once he had some clean, professional photographs he called me and I put together a very basic site that was exactly what he wanted. Everything that's important is one click away no matter where you are on the site. The design is
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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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The Douglas Interagency Narcotics Team
| Portfolio
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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Hire-a-Daughter.us
| Portfolio
Hire a Daughter was a company that specialized in helping the elderly or home-bound. They needed a site that was basically passive marketing, just to have someplace to point potential clients to so they could get some more information. That’s what I gave them. The design is fully customized to incorporate the look of the business cards and other marketing materials the company already had made. The site, as it is, is very simple, but also very welcoming and almost makes you wish you h
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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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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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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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Brent Gunter (Musician)
| Portfolio
Brent is a musician from the Portland area. He spends a big chunk of the year traveling around doing concerts and needed a way to sell tickets on his website. He already had the website, but had no idea how to integrate PayPal and a shopping cart. He called me and I took care of him. Not a huge project, but it was a pleasure listening to his CD while I worked. He also had an email list he needed to be able to manage through his website. Pretty easy stuff these days, but it used to r
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02BrandonAshRacing.com
| Portfolio
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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DQP (The Degree Qualifications Profile)
| Portfolio
The DQP Project in Oregon is a joint effort of all seven Oregon University System (OUS) institutions and the state’s seventeen independent community colleges to develop the Degree Qualifications Profile for Oregon. The DQP Project in Oregon will provide a descriptive curricular framework for describing institutions' degree outcomes across the state, both in their unique characters and in their shared aspects. The project relates directly to the missions of each institution to support their stu
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All Oregon Real Estate
| Real Estate and Property Management
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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EmbertsonCPA.com
| WordPress Blogs
Rick needed a site refresh in a bad way. He also wanted to be able to update his website in house and needed to be found on Google. His old site was somewhere around page 14 on Google and used bright, vibrant colors and, well, didn't work. Logins that lead to nowhere. Pages dedicated to a single line of text. Just odd and didn't really fit his style. I met with him and a couple of his office people and we decided the best option for him was a WordPress website with a custom design.
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