Web Design
Western Skies specializes in designing functional and attractive web sites fit the
needs of our customers at a reasonable price.
Our diverse range of solutions for our customers includes a punk rock online magazine, educational sites, alpaca farm sites, a site featuring an entrepreneur's real estate investments, and a health supplement company's corporate site.
We can help at any stage in optimizing your web presence, whether it be securing a domain name as one of the very first steps or redesigning an existing web site.
Western Skies develops professional, custom solutions for your needs, whether they be an attractive static web sites or a fully-functional dynamic web applications. In addition to custom solutions, we can customize an existing solution for your needs, such as applying a look-and-feel design to a third-party product, such as WordPress or Blogger.
Our technical experience in developing web solutions is varied and include the following:
- HTML/XHTML
- CSS
- PHP
- Python
- Java
- Apache
- MySQL
- Django
While we prefer to work with open-source technologies to your costs low, we are happy to work with whatever technology is needed to come to the right solution for your needs.
Visit the sites in the Portfolio below and see what we have done for our customers. What can we do for you?
Portfolio
Alpaca Alley, LLC
Maurine & David Bunce
Go-Live Date: 05/11/2007
When we were approached by Alpaca Alley, they were looking to provide information to potential customers gathering information via the web, have a way to feature their farm and animals, and fulfill a requirement to have a web site as put forth by the Ideal Alpaca brand.
As a small farm, Maurine and David couldn't afford a large corporate web site. They also didn't have the expertise to create their own web site. At Western Skies we have been able to offer Alpaca Alley a right-sized solution for their needs without a lot of overhead at a reasonable cost that fit within their budget.
"I have had an alpaca farm for two years now, but couldn't decide on a web builder now that I finally may have something to sell. My first recommended company was overwhelmingly expensive. I simply couldn't afford their product without first selling an alpaca or two and I couldn't have sales without a website. Then I met the people involved in Western Skies. I have been very impressed with their expertise and understanding of what is needed for a site for a small business. Their pricing is reasonable. They listen to your ideas, give gentle criticisms or suggestions, and they give you choices of formats. They have built me a beautiful website.
"I highly recommend them and am sure that my business will prosper due to their fine work."
Maurine Bunce
Alpaca Alley, LLC
Chappell's Alpaca Junction
Diana and Dean Chappell
http://www.calpacajunction.com/
Go-Live Date: 10/14/2007
The Chappell's alpaca farm had an existing website, but they desperately needed a site redesign and content update. Western Skies was able to resdesign their site using existing elements to prevent the new site from being too foreign to returning users. The new site features integration with Alpaca Nation and a new blog.
Evergreen Terrace Farms
Charles & Maren Anderson
Go-Live Date: 03/09/2005
This is a single-farm website designed for and by Charles and Maren Anderson to support their alpaca farm. It began life as a static HTML site, but has evolved into a PHP site with features like a self-updating index page and custom sidebars.
Heart of the Valley Alpaca Show & Sale
Mary Jo Walker
Go-Live Date: 02/14/2007
This website is designed to be the web-presence of the Heart of the Valley Alpaca Show and Sale, a yearly conformation and fleece show in Albany, Oregon. It is designed using PHP so it could be quickly updated and be as flexible as possible.
Left of the Dial Online Music Magazine
David Ensminger
http://www.leftofthedialmag.com/
Go-Live Date: 07/26/2006
This is the Internet re-incarnation of Left of the Dial, a punk-rock and music print magazine. It was designed on a WordPress platform so that articles and pictures could be updated quickly and easily by the editor, David Ensminger.
"Coming from the world of old-fashioned print magazines, I was weary and wary of turning to the web to re-create my magazine for a hitherto untapped audience with new expectations. I really needed it to feel user-friendly, dynamic, and homespun at the same time in order to be "legit" with bloggers, music fans, and artists. Luckily, Charles and Maren Anderson knew exactly how to make it feel solid without being flashy, easy for me to update and amend, and a sensible mark of pride. With their helpful, patient, diligent, and honest work methods and approach, I was totally satisfied and now feel empowered in a time when previously I felt I was losing ground to a younger generation. I highly recommend them!"
David Ensminger
Left of the Dial Online Music Magazine
Maren Anderson's Teaching Pages
Maren Anderson
Go-Live Date: 09/25/2004
These pages have been designed so that Maren Bradley Anderson, an adjunct at Western Oregon University, can organize her copious class materials and keep in touch with her students. The pages are written in PHP so they are very flexible—this is vital to a woman whose teaching load ranges from literature to writing to computer science.