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Gardner Hathway LLC, a training and development consultancy, offers "strong on-site programs, management consulting, one-on-one coaching, and access to quality programs and materials".
Gardner Hathway came to us looking for a professional website that would stand out and shine above their competition. They choose an html template with a flash header designed by a template company, and we transformed this design into a full Joomla CMS template with an integrated flash header and navigation.
This site includes flash videos dropped into the text, a document download and management system, two customized forms, a high powered RSS feed extension, and a specialized hyperlink component that allows a user to create links between pages easier on the backend administrator.
Sun Powered Productions worked with a variety of other companies on this project, including Shaheen Productions who produced Gardner Hathaway's videos, and Z Studios who produced high quality photographs of James Lorenzen.
"I screened more than a dozen candidates before selecting you. What did it for me was your completely open client-centered process, which was true in your policies, your pricing, and your service. Once you completed our consulting site, www.gardnerhathaway.com, it was an easy choice to have the two of you build the speaking site, www.jameslorenzen.com, as well. It’s rare to find such high quality work accompanied by fair pricing and honest billing practices. We regard the two of you and Sun Powered Productions to be an integral part of the Gardner Hathaway, LLC team and look forward to a long and very satisfying relationship."
-James Lorenzen, CEO Gardner Hathaway, LLC |
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Independent Distributors of Electronics Association |
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 Independent Distributors of Electronics Association (IDEA) is the leading resource for independent distributors to find relevant quality information and to participate in advancing industry ethics, ensuring customer satisfaction, establishing standards, and promoting education. We transfered and organized the content from an older content management system (CMS), Mambo, to a new site created with a more current Content Management System. The new site included transferring 700 registered users, more than 80 pages with various user access levels, product purchases made with PayPal, and nearly 100 links to articles in other websites. With all the old content input into the existing site, IDEA's new content management system will allow them to increase their website's functionality to their employees and members.
"Sun Powered Productions (SPP) successfully redesigned and executed the
creation and functionality of the current website for the Independent
Distributors of Electronics Association (IDEA) in October 2008. From my
first contact with Jonathan to this very day, SPP has faithfully met their
portion of the terms of each agreement we have made.
Jonathan and Shelly have met and many times exceeded my expectations in
communications, setting project expectations, schedules, and performance on
deliverables. Also, SPP has consistently been responsive to each of my
subsequent needs for modifications to our website in the months since SPP
completed their redesign of our website.
IDEA adheres to the highest order of service quality to ensure customer
satisfaction. I am please to state that SPP adheres to these same levels of
performance, therefore further enabling IDEA's capability to accomplish our
goals.
Therefore it is my sincere pleasure to highly recommend the services of SPP.
Companies such as SPP deserve the positive recommendation they have earned
resulting from their history of this customer's satisfaction."
Respectfully,
Debra N. Eggeman
IDEA Executive Director |
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 Quasar Global provides all aspects of IT management, installation, and support for a company's whole IT environment, from communications to servers to workstations and peripherals.
Having assisted them with a number of website projects, Quasar Global decided they wanted a website overhaul and redesign to expand their market base. The new site features two unique website layouts, a very consistent color-scheme, numerous slideshows, dropdown menus, and a newsletter component. |
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Grand Effects designs custom Outdoor Fire Features for Commercial and Residential Properties.
We initially made improvements to their pre-existing Flash based website, but encouraged them to abandon a "Flash only" design to take advantage of the improved SEO and many features of a Joomla based website. The new website features a Flash slide show on the home page and a photo gallery using a "lightbox" style display feature. Grand Effects has made good use of a newsletter component to notify their opt-in mailing list of over 1300 about new products and other relevant periodic information. |
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Delta Protective Services |
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 Delta Protective Services is California's premiere provider of security officers, marked vehicle patrol services and private investigations.
Delta Protective Services was looking for an easier way for multiple users to make changes to their site. Their site was built with Adobe Contribute, a program that made it difficult to make consistent changes across all pages and also wasn't laying content out correctly in all browsers.
Sun Powered Productions upgraded their site into the Joomla content management system. Making only some minor adjustments to their site's original look, we converted their design into a Joomla template and rebuilt their content with cleaner code to make it easier for search engines to read.
Though it may look the similar, rebuild of Delta Protective Services is now more friendly to search engines, easier to edit by Delta's admins, and also lays out nicely in all browsers. |
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Annual Walkathon for the Myathenia Gravis Foundation |
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The annual Myasthenia Gravis Walkathon raises "funds for research, patient services, public education and information in the fight against Myasthenia Gravis."
The Garden State Chapter of the Myasthenia Gravis Foundation (MGNJ) came to us looking for site that further brings together the energy of the walkathon community and enhances their ability to fund raise and collect donations. As a 501c3 nonprofit, MGNJ needed to reduce costs. We minimized the design phase by modifying one of Joomla's pre-designed templates and customizing it to fit MGNJ's needs.
This site features a community component that allows walkathon members to develop profiles and a feature that allows the community to form teams and enable conversations through with a wiki. For their fundraising side, the site features a fundraising and donation add-on that allows secure donations directly to paypal and records the list of donors to a cvs spreadsheet for tax purposes. This add-on also displays a list of the cause's top donors, a goal for the amount raised, and a total of the amount raised so far. This site also features drop-down menus.
Sun Powered Productions researched a variety of extensions for this project and worked with the tech support at a couple of extension companies, including OsSolutions who provided excellent service and advice.
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 American Sports Bra creates patented sports bras and bathing suits that use a special two bras in one design that supports women and allows them to look great. This website challenged us with its desire to reflect the simplicity and invigorating nature of the bra with the design and layout of the website itself. The site features search engine friendly content links and a back-end content management system that will allow American Sports Bra to add new retailers and other content items themselves.
"Jonathan and Shelly were so patient and so easy to work with. They are very professional, but also show a real interest in helping my business grow. Their hosting services are saving us about $40 a month over what our former web host charged. Whenever I wanted to change something, they were always willing. They worked with me to create the website my business deserves at affordable rates and remain on call for future expansion. Furthermore, I value their judgment which was important since this was a new process for me".
-Hilary Lambert, Founder of American Sports Bra |
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WoodMaster provides high quality cabinetry and custom woodwork for home owners and construction companies on the California central coast.
WoodMaster came to us looking for better solution to improve his search engine rank. His original site was a 200+page, basic html site which lacked consistent navigation. To make his content more search engine friendly and consistent, we recreated his site with a content management system, which automates page item layouts, navigation and page headings.
WoodMaster's redesigned site now features search engine friendly urls, a special flash animated image menu for the home page, rotating testimonies, and enlarging lightbox product images. With his content now SEO friendly, we are looking forward working with WoodMaster next on improving their web presence.
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CPS Certification Services |
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CPS Certification Services provides cleanroom testing and cleanroom evaluation services to the cleanroom industry.
We began our relationship with CPS Certification in 2005 by making some small changes to their existing website. Soon after we did a basic redesign of their website. As their business grew, we re-assessed their website and in early 2007 we produced a SEO optimized custom website.
NEW REDESIGN! With the increase of incoming clients, CPS Certification Services upgraded their website a third time in 2009 to a company resource center, providing more information for clients online to help streamline the assessment process.
CPS Certification has done a good job of exchanging links with other websites in their industry. Doing so not only brings referral traffic to their website, but also improves their websites standing with search engines. It has been a real pleasure to work with CPS Certification throughout the years.
CPS Certification's success is good example of how smart link exchanging and search engine friendly webdesign can really increase web traffic and bring in more business.
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Stone Green Studios transforms high quality concrete into beautiful landscape features which give the illusion of being made of bark and stone.
We took the challenge of creating a website that could match the talent of their craft and used many of their gorgeous photographs to construct the custom Joomal templates needed to implement the design.
Their website uses an opacity setting supported by most modern browsers, but not by IE6 and below. We built the site so that, while it won't look as good as it would in IE7 and Firefox, it will still be a beautiful website in IE6.
"A website for our small company was way overdue, but where do you start. Suggestions from friends and colleagues were less than inspirational. I found a website that appealed to me and luckily at the bottom it said Sunpowered Productions. So I introduced myself and told Jonathan what I was looking for, a drop dead gorgeous site that always worked.
Jonathan and Shelly kept me focused on the “always works” part as I continually went off on artsy tangents. I enjoyed the process and am thrilled with the final product at a more than reasonable price. I recommend SunPowered Productions every chance I get."
Kathleen Green, Stone Green Studios
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Scottish Renaissance Festival |
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This June The Scottish Renaissance Festival of Santa Cruz encourages you to don your bodice or kilt and pack your bagpipe to come experience the music, engage in impromptu theatrical performance, salute the Queen and raise a glass at Santa Cruz counties own annual renaissance event. The proceeds go to the Charity Events non-profit organization.
For the past few years, Sun Powered Productions has sponsored our authentic period costumed friends, updating and redesigning a website to suite their Renaissance needs. The truth is, from our first irish fiddle tune to our first taste of mead we have become "renies" ourselves.
This year's site features CSS and PHP coding with a cry of "freedom" and a longing for those rolling hills of the Scotland. |
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ABC Limos is a quality limousine rental agency based out of Santa Cruz, CA.
We reduced their monthly hosting fees by more than 2/3rds by moving them to our hosting service.
We produced their Joomla based website and worked with a company called Livery Coach to integrate a .asp based registration system.
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The Pure Spirit opened for business in November of 07, offering high quality clothing made from sustainablily grown organic materials. This website is wholely owned by SunPoweredProductions.com
This ZenCart based SSL encrypted shop site features payment methods using Paypal Website Payments Pro and Google Checkout, a lightbox style image display feature, an automated Froogle feeder, Search Engine Friendly design and various administrative improvements. Regrettably, in August of 2008, the wholesalers terms became prohibitive. We delisted our ~150 products and have put the site into dormancy until we establish a new product line. |
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Djembe Kan teaches West African Drum and Dance classes to the Monterey area both locally and abroad. Every January they take a new group of energetic students to Senegal, West Africa for the immerseive experience of West African drum and dance traditions.
We produced this version of their website in 2006, trying to capture the vibrant colors of the Senegalese culture. We produced the video using assorted clips from students who went to Senegal in 2005.
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Clubstruck.com is a new virtual interactive social-networking site by Badboy Billy Shaw where members can interact and host their own clubs in whatever style they choose. In January of 2009, we directed a promotional video for investors. We co-wrote the script, filmed avatars interacting in a virtual online setting, recorded narration and edited the footage into a compact intro video. We worked extensively with Glenn Sanders, who produced the project and works at MiaMedia Studios, a 3D media company that designs virtual worlds, 3D characters, AI Avatars and more. |
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NanoDimension Management Ltd |
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 NanoDimension is a venture capital firm supporting top entrepreneurial teams to build nanotech companies with the potential to become world leaders in their field. Though this site was produced by another company, we first organized and streamline the back end of site, making it more usable to the site's administrators. In December 2008, we created and launched a new Team page that featured a Custom Slider that linked team member images to their profiles without reloading the page. |
Want2BDiscovered.com is dedicated to helping new and emerging independent artists get heard.
In 2007, we redesigned their existing (Mambo based) artist sign up process, which required manually entering each artists profile into a content page, into a Joomla based automated profile creation system using the Sobi2 directory system. Then we produced a promotional web video distributed on the Want2bdiscovered website, on YouTube and half a dozen other video networking websites. We also consulted for and managed the technical aspects of live streaming open mic performances on the w2b homepage. |
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Dorothy Donell stuns and captivates audiences across California with her phenomenal soprano voice and her beautiful dancing trick horses.
We produced Dorothy's Opening-Ceremonies: Soprano on a Dancing Trick Horse website, produced the promotional video featured on her home page and produced video DVD's which she uses to submit to prospective venues.
"I love my new website created by Sun Powered Productions! It's been wonderful to just know that whatever I ask for with my website (and I have some pretty unusual and inventive requests!), Sun Powered Productions can handle it perfectly! and with great inventiveness!!"
- Dorothy Donell, www.opening-ceremonies.com
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World Without Oil is an alternate reality game which kicked off in May 2007 with the premise "What if an oil shortage caused gas prices to shoot up over $4 a gallon". Needless to say the predictive nature and the topical efficacy of the game led it to be a great success.
Under the direction of Ken Eklund - WriterGuy, we produced two of their pre-game videos in a hidden-camera style which introduced gamers to two mysterious oil industry insiders..
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