I recently finished up a design project for Bristlecone Realty, a salt lake property management company I found through a friend. It was a fun project, a clean, simple design with some embedded PHP and HTML elements that they could use with a WYSIWYG editor to make changes on the site they update frequently.
They also wanted some SEO work done and so I have also been tackling that this summer with the most mixed, unusual results I have ever had with SEO. I am optimizing for the keyword string “salt lake property management” and right now they are sitting at #1 for MSN, #32 for Yahoo, and nowhere on Google. Yup, one day we were steadily climbing around #45-50 and the next day it was delisted…why? I have no idea. I submitted a reconsideration form and am waiting on that.
A weird thing to happen when there appears to be nothing black hat at all about the site. I scoured over every inch of the HTML and found only a period that was “hidden” to hold space in an area that was showing up differently in FF and IE. I removed that and am now just waiting for Google to give the page back its proper place.
Meanwhile, you can check out the page at http://www.brgsaltlake.com
This last semester I had the opportunity to work with and lead a small team of students on a research project for USU Partners in Business Seminars. We were looking for an alternative method to market and advertise these seminars to increase attendance without spending more than we currently were. It was a really fun, challenging project and I thought I would share the powerpoint presentation I put together with results and the final proposal with the world. I did a few things with the website that I will talk about later, but for now, here lie the goods! Hope you enjoy!
Check that image out…left aligned. How do you like them apples!? So the unofficial senior project is coming right along. I think I have my idea nailed down and now am just refining the logistics and budget of the whole thing. I figured I would give a sneak peak to what it is going to be by showing a sliver of the homepage…it won’t tell you much about it but you are welcome to guess :)
I’ve been working with Hawkeye Technology in Logan, UT for the last year or so. I was originally hired on as a marketing intern last summer and was put to work rewriting an email follow up program, newsletters, etc. However, their site was really in bad shape and I knew that a simple redesign could work wonders for their main product, 
Former entrepreneur now a 9-5'er (by choice), I'm a web marketer, blogger, designer, and lover of all things outdoors. Happily married, living in the mountains of Colorado.