Portfolio
Richmond Hill Reflections
Richmond Hill Reflections is a magazine dedicated magazine covering the news, community developments, history, interesting and influential local people, organizations and businesses of the Richmond Hill, Georgia community. We are very proud to have helped them launch their very first website, and are also proud that they covered Shinefire Studios in their June 2009 issue of the magazine.
Services: Full website design, Wordpress CMS integration
URL: http://www.richmondhillreflectionsmag.com
Wildfire Platform
The Wildfire Social Mobilization Platform has been used in the past by clients such as Rudy Guliani, whose implementation of Wildfire hit Mashable back during the race for the Republican nomination. We went in, did a big clean-up on the CSS code, tossed in the Blueprint CSS framework, and helped WeTheCitizens achieve a true content & code separation for their Java-based platform.
Services: Blueprint CSS framework integration into a rather-large web application
URL: http://www.wildfireplatform.com
UGA College Republicans
With over 2000 members, the University of Georgia College Republicans checks in as the largest College Republican chapter in the nation. The Wordpress-powered site features a blog, club registration and contact forms, a Twitter feed, and can be easily administered and updated daily by multiple club members.
Services: Custom Wordpress theme, Logo design
URL: http://www.ugarepublicans.com
The Line
Author Courtney Brandt commissioned the companion websites for two of her young adult novels to be custom designed and built by Shinefire Studios – The Line, and sequel A Fine Line. Additionally, we provided banner advertisement design and assistance with online ad campaigns to promote the novel.
Services: Custom site design, Banner ad design, Internet marketing
URL: http://www.thelinebook.com
WeTheCitizens
Although the WeTheCitizens corporate homepage design has since changed, Shinefire Studios originally provided expert CSS integration of the Blueprint CSS framework that still remains in tact as the underlying structure of this very professional-looking site.
Services: PSD to CSS/XHTML, Wordpress blog integration, Blueprint CSS framework integration
URL: http://www.wethecitizens.com
University of Georgia Recreational Sports
Seeing as how the University of Georgia campus spans several square miles, and even more so that just their workout facilities cover nearly a square mile on their own, the Recreational Sports division requested a customized Flash map of their workout facility and field complex. Students hit it up quite regularly when trying to find a specific practice field for their intramural flag football games!
Services: Flash mapping
URL: http://www.recsports.uga.edu
The Patriot Group
As a new-media focused political consultancy with clients like the Governor of Texas Rick Perry, The Patriot Group is constantly looking for new solutions to common campaign problems. Although the project details remain largely private, Shinefire Studios conducted an assessment of a piece of Patriot Group political software and provided recommendations for improvement on the application structure and business rules.
Services: Web application consulting
Gifts from Finland
After successfully planning and carrying out a Search Engine Marketing campaign for Gifts from Finland, this niche import company recognized a 2% eCommerce conversion ratio improvement, and a 400% year-on-year sales increase for their imported Finnish products. Additionally, we provided recommendations for restructuring their site based on statistical research compiled using Google Analytics tracking software.
Services: Search engine marketing, Information architecture
URL: http://www.giftsfromfinland.com
Athens Spine Care and Pain Management
Hopefully the complete redesign of this business’s website eased some of their technology pains! We moved a good number of this physical therapy center’s documents online, assisted with re-branding, and condensed their massive physician referral form into a bite-size web form, just to name a few of the improvements.
Services: Logo design, PSD to XHTML/CSS coding
URL: http://www.tameyourpain.com
Safe Teen Driving Club
After auditing their eCommerce workflow, we provided recommendations to Safe Teen Driving Club on how to restructure their site to be more conducive to consumer sales, and how to improve their content offering to be more relevant to their potential customers.
Services: eCommerce workflow audit, Content consulting
URL: http://www.safeteendrivingclub.org
The Southern Nature Project
In addition to redesigning their site, Shinefire Studios created a map that listed this group of outdoorsy authors by the regions or states they wrote about. Furthermore, the site contained what were essentially podcasts before the term “podcast” came to be. Cutting edge in its day.
Services: Flash mapping, PSD to XHTML/CSS coding
URL: http://www.southernnature.org
Athens Humane Society
A complete redesign helped the humane society more efficiently process their adoption papers and inquiries about pet adoption.
Services: PSD to XHTML/CSS coding
URL: http://www.athenshumanesociety.org
Athens Chamber of Commerce
A complete redesign of their site helped the Chamber communicate more effectively with their 100+ business members.
Services: PSD to XHTML/CSS coding
URL: http://www.athensga.com
A Fine Line
We helped author Courtney Brandt promote A Fine Line, the follow-up sequel to The Line, by adding on this book teaser website to her existing novel portfolio.
Services: Custom site design
URL: http://www.thelinebook.com/afineline
Athens-Clarke County Planning Department
A complete redesign helped this planning department communicate policy more effectively with local developers and real estate groups.
Services: PSD to XHTML/CSS coding
URL: http://www.accplanning.com
Academy of the Environment
We helped this University of Georgia program more effectively communicate their environmental research initiatives by restructuring and redesigning their website.
Services: PSD to XHTML/CSS coding
Note: UGA Recreational Sports, Gifts from Finland, Athens Spine Care and Pain Management, Safe Teen Driving, Southern Nature Project, Athens Humane Society, Athens Area Chamber of Commerce, ACC Planning, and Academy of the Environment were delivered while Shay was working with with accomplished designer Jason Long while an employee of J House Media. Shinefire Studios retains the sole rights to the rest of the work listed on this page.
