I was hired at the Davis Applied Technology College in August of 2007 with a sole purpose in building them a brand new website that worked. Their site, at the time, was running on an old version of DotNetNuke that had been customized to a point where it couldn't be upgraded. That wasn't the only thing bad about it, the content hadn't been managed on it for years in some cases. Onto the case study:

Design

I started with a theme called "Tech" for the new website. I've always been a fan of starting with something and going off of it even if it ends up being completely different.

The dentist of Flynn Dentistry in Kaysville Utah came to me with a few questions. He had pre-built a website for his Dental Practice using Apple's amazing Website Creation Tool, iWeb. He had just uploaded the HTML files and then started thinking about how to get more exposure on the web. My advise was to either go with the HTML pages from iWeb or else go for a full-blown Content Management System in Drupal. Drupal is a very Search Engine Friendly (SEO) system that speaks clearly to Google making it a lot easier to become noticed. That's exactly what I did. We also went to the extent of adding a sweet "Special Offers" page that has a link to a print-ready version that you can print and bring into the office.

Debra came to with one need from a website, and that was to be able to take orders from her website. For years she had been taking orders only from telephone and some via e-mail. This was obviously not the ideal situation for her or her customers. The main focus on this project was not only to get a site that looks more modern, but to create an integrated shopping cart for her customers. We were able to do just that and so far it's made the order process a lot easier