Projects

This page contains a partial list of our projects:

2009

www.projectremedies.com

Project Remedies Inc. – Pacific Palisades, CA

Status: In-Progress

Website Development & Marketing Integration

What began as a straightforward Search Engine Optimization project several months ago, has become a business process integration project that is directly responsible for an increase in sales revenue and prospect stream volume.

PRI is becoming a major player in the field of BMC Remedy partners. Their primary applications, ActionPortfolio Manager ("PPM") and ActionProgram Manager ("APM), fill 3 gaps in essential functionality in Remedy's IT Service Management (ITSM) Suite: Demand, Cost, and Resource Management. PRI tracks worker's timesheet entries against project tasks as they are worked, giving project and portfolio managers real-time visibility into actual vs. planned costs, resources, etc.

We are providing PRI with consulting services to integrate their website with their marketing and development processes. We are providing the sales team with SEO research and analysis reports that allow them to see the effects of their efforts reflected in the site traffic. We are also updating the website in direct response to our analysis of the statistics data. As a direct result of our combined efforts, PRI's client list, already impressive, continues to grow.

And without spending one penny on paid adwords.

Carnegie Speech – Pittsburgh, PA

Status: Completed in September 2009

Online Help Development

SpeakRussian is the latest product developed by Carnegie Speech, a Pittsburgh software company affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University. It is a web-based application developed on the open source course management system, Moodle. It is intended for students who have already learned enough Russian to be able to read and pronounce Russian written in cyrillic. The goal is to help these students reach a level of fluency and comprehension to be able to communicate effectively while working in Russia.

We are creating the online help for using the same HTML and PHP files and Moodle framework that we created for SpeakIraqi last year (see below). Once again we are working closely with the development team throughout the project.

www.tillywig.com

Tillywig Toy Awards – Chicago, IL

Status: Completed in May 2009

Website Development & Training

Tillywig is the latest project to come from Dan Levy, the creative talent behind Funstreet Games.

We developed this site from PDF mock-ups and graphic files designed by Annie Betts, a graphic designer in Chicago. The main requirement for the site was that the client needed something that he could update himself, particularly the lists of award winners. Because the client provided the toy awards data in a clean, comma-separated-value ("CSV") text file, we were able to easily convert it into a database. Although not included in the original Scope, the time and energy savings were so great that we were able to create a website with dynamic pages. The Award Winners page, the Store Finder page, and the Search feature, which was custom-developed for this website, are all created by the database automatically when the client edits and uploads the CSV data file.

Custom training and documentation were critical requirements of this project, and the client has been updating the site successfully ever since we completed it.

2008

	Sightset, Inc. – Pittsburgh, PA Status: Completed in December 2008 Website Content Development & Consulting Worked with the client to write extremely targeted website copy. Sightset is an ambitious startup company, and we provided them with business website consulting that helped them to achieve their goals. (Note that their website is not yet live.) They were very pleased with the results: "If you are fortunate enough to sign-up with Circuit Riders consider yourself lucky. This small but extremely able company can deliver, and it can deliver big! We know. We are one of the lucky ones." – Sightset, Inc.
	www.styleandspa.com Style & Spa – Chicago, IL Status: Completed in October 2008 Website and Online Store Development and Training Developed the website and online store for Style & Spa, an all-natural skincare product manufacturer located in Chicago, IL. Site design and project management were provided by dawn designs, a Chicago graphic arts company with whom we have partnered on several projects.
	KidsVoice – Pittsburgh, PA Status: Completed in August 2008 Technical Documentation Wrote the user and administrator guides for the KidsVoice child legal advocacy software.
	Carnegie Speech – Pittsburgh, PA Status: Completed in July 2008 Online Help Development SpeakIraqi is a product developed by Carnegie Speech, a Pittsburgh software company affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University. It is a web-based application for learning Iraqi Arabic, which was developed using the open source course management system, Moodle. SpeakIraqi includes two courses, basic and advanced, for learning essential Iraqi Arabic. We developed the online help for both courses using HTML and PHP within the Moodle framework, working closely with the development team throughout the project. The application is so effective that the Circuit Riders technical writing team began learning basic Iraqi Arabic just from working on the project. shukren! – thank you!
	Project Remedies Inc. – Pacific Palisades, CA Status: Ongoing Technical Documentation Project Remedies provides the only Demand, Cost, and Resource Management available on BMC Remedy. We have been maintaining the user guides for PRI's project management applications, ActionProgram Manager and ActionPortfolio Manager, since 2007.

2003 – 2007

The following are some of our earlier projects.

We started up Circuit Riders while we were living in Moab, Utah (between 2003 – 2007). Moab is a small town in the middle of nowhere – the beautiful red-rock canyon country desert of the Colorado Plateau. Many of our earliest clients were local Moab businesses and artists, giving us a somewhat unique early project portfolio:

	www.archerwire.com Archer Wire International, Corp. – Chicago, IL Online Store for McDonald's Restaurant Fry Basket Supplier. Read the Case Study for details.
	www.bluebuddhaboutique.com Blue Buddha Boutique – Chicago IL Website & Online Store Development Chicago chain maille jewelry artist, Rebeca Mojica, maintains this site with the tools we gave her, with occasional boosts over the hard parts. Rebeca expanded her website into online sales using website tools we developed, and her store is thriving.
	www.okokok.org OK OK OK Productions – Moab UT We provided Website Development & Training services to Kaki Hunter and Doni Kiffmeyer, who are specialists in the field of sustainable architecture. Earthbag building is similar to adobe, but instead of hand-made bricks, the structure is built using heavy-duty bags – like flood sandbags – filled with compacted dirt. Check out their site; the resulting buildings are very beautiful! Read the Case Study for details.
	www.surrealartstudio.com Rick Showalter – Moab UT Website Development Rick Showalter was a gifted canyonlands artist and graphic illustrator who was responsible for the illustrations and maps of Canyon Country Publications. He needed a small gallery website to hightlight his recent works. Postscript: Rick passed away in October 2008; we still miss his discerning eye...
	Utah State Parks Marketing Initiative Edge of the Cedars State Park Museum – Blanding UT Website Business Strategy Consulting, Search Engine Optimization Research, Analysis, & Development In September 2006, we were asked for website consulting by the Utah State Parks Marketing Team, which was mandated by the Governor to increase the State Parks' economic self-sufficiency, as well as their support of nearby local economies. None of the team members had any experience with website development when we began this project. We proposed using one park as a prototype, to give the members of the marketing team, including the State Park Regional Manager, the chance to learn as much as possible while avoiding the potential risks of a large expensive project. The park selected for the project by the marketing team was Edge of the Cedars State Park Museum, located in Blanding, UT. By the time we were done we'd made significant improvements to the SEO of ALL the State of Utah park websites, coordinated several updates to the Edge of the Cedars State Park website, and provided the Parks Regional Manager with reports and documentation about the park websites and their statistics. This information was used to develop state-wide changes to the Utah State Park website system. Read the Case Study for project details.
	www.cnha.org Canyonlands Natural History Association (CNHA) – Moab UT Website business consulting, and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) research and analysis CNHA supports the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), National Forest Service (NFS), and the National Park Service (NPS) parks and facilities in Southeastern Utah. We provided SEO marketing consulting to the CNHA director to increase the website's visitor traffic and online sales.
	www.disabilitytraining.com Program Development Associates – Syracuse NY Search Engine Optimization Research, Analysis, & Development The new owner of this successful online store asked us for a report of the site's current search engine status. He needed to know how many sales were coming from his paid links. We used our own scripts to analyze the webserver's raw log files, and then set up the Google Analytics scripts account to give our client his own access to the AdWord Marketing and Conversion reports. The results of our Search Engine Optimization research and analysis clearly showed that almost no paid links were resulting in sales. The owner used our report findings to fine-tune some AdWord campaigns and cancel others, and to make additional business planning decisions for the upcoming year.
	www.pawprintzpetboutique.com PawPrintz Pet Boutique – Chicago IL Online Store Maintenance & Search Engine Optimization We used Dreamweaver to maintain this best-selling collection of over 1500 luxury pet products from 2006-2008.
	Utah Smart Site Program Magazine Article & Photographs Hard Rock. Hard Tech. Hard Core. The Smart Sites of Grand County, Money Matters, January 2005. Salt Lake City UT. Read the Case Study for details.