Websites Within Reach

Screenshot Dumas Bay Centre
Project Management: Cipalla Communications
Graphic/Logo Design: van den Berg Design
Photography: Chris Huss Photography
CSS/XHTML Web Development: Scott Marlow

My second website for the City of Federal Way: a redesign for Dumas Bay Centre, a retreat center owned and operated by the City. The new site features rotating images of the event venue, panoramic views of the meeting rooms, downloadable catering menus, and an open source Content Management System.

Dumas Bay Centre, a former convent, is an affordable event venue for all types of groups — from business meetings and craft gatherings to memorials and weddings. The event center overlooks Dumas Bay from a 12-acre natural setting with a waterfront gazebo and historic garden. Three meeting rooms can accommodate up to 98 event attendees. And up to 90 guests can overnight in 67 guest rooms.

Our team created a full marketing plan including a new website, brand identity and marketing materials. The work included a comprehensive advertising plan with ads in Bravo, MyWedding.com, the Federal Way Mirror, and other publications.

Cleaning Up Websites

screenshot Bravo Environmental

Some web site maintenance for Bravo Environmental. After inspecting the accessibility and usability of the original site, I located the underlying problem: an over-engineered site for engineers. Al Schumacher swept me into the project.

Site repairs included cleaning up the ASP code, cutting out redundant HTML and vacuuming up 5 nested tables to make content updates easier. Image-based headers were jettisoned to make room for search engine-friendly text-based headers. Web maintenance also involved adding pages to the site map.

You get the idea. Thanks to Beegee Tolpa for the graphic design.

Container Gardening by Toni Cross

When her former web designer and host had become non-responsive, Toni contacted me to fix some problems with her website.

I helped her move the website to a new web host, updated the look and feel of the site (with help from Kelly Davis of Farm Girl Works), and implemented Cascading Style Sheets to facilitate future website maintenance.

Take a look at Toni’s container gardening services.

I’d show you before and after screenshots, but the before shots might turn you to stone.

Contact me about your website maintenance.