F3 Fitness needed to take a step up with their website. Like a lot businesses they started with a basic template only to outgrow it a year later. Their site had become static and no longer matched the dynamic and growing company. Ryan Wyse Technology and Design stepped in to give them a website and image upgrade. We gave them the ability to update their own content, landing pages, and a powerful video system. With a fresh new look, updated logo and branding F3 is now ready to attract more customers and promote themselves as the premiere Personal Trainers in Kansas City.
The Drake Institute came to us needing a friendlier less clinical design. We worked through a couple designs with them and ended up with a friendly, clean and professional look for them. We also improved their site navigation and made their main call to action far more visible and engaging. As a result their conversions, time on site, and bounce rate have all improved.
Faced with expensive, stiff cookie cutter real estate websites, Emily turned to Ryan Wyse Technology and Design to develop a custom designed website that fit her personality and style. We integrated Emily's existing twitter and blog account into her website to keep her site fresh and targeted towards her younger demographic. Through the use of the Drupal Content Management System Emily has full access to change and update every area of her site. Emily is poised for success with a SEO tuned, standards compliant, cross-browser and iPhone compatible website.
The Steve and Kathy Show is a nationally syndicated television show. Large, engaging portraits are placed on the front page of the site to encourage deeper exploration of the site. A custom integrated video platform provides online distribution of the show with built-in sharing and tracking to help the videos go viral. Existing Drupal modules are leveraged to create a zip code to latitude-longitude based "Find My Local Station" lookup feature. Like all our sites, all the content can be updated and edited by their staff.
Black Marketing, LLC is focused on bringing social media marketing to Kansas City area businesses. They were searching for a site design that was stylish yet clean, that would complement their innovative business approach. Focusing on their core of their business, we made their Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace links a prominent part of their design. We also integrated a blog into their site that allows each employee to contribute to Black Marketing, LLC's online presence, and integrated a custom page template that allows automatic download and tracking for their client campaigns.
The question may be, "why wouldn't you use a Content Management System (CMS) for your website?" Years ago when CMSs first became popular, they were expensive, proprietary and costly to get setup. With the help of many committed developers and open source projects like Drupal, that isn't the case anymore. If you're shopping for a new website or website redesign you should question anyone who doesn't offer you some variety of CMS for your website. Some designers don't offer a CMS due to...
About Ryan Wyse
I've been working for last 10 years in Information Technology. I have 7 years of web development experience with a focus on PHP/MySQL programming and 3 years of experience with the Drupal CMS. I currently reside in Kansas City, MO with my wife and son.