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Swiftel Communications
When Swiftel came to us looking for a new site, the number one goal was to become the homepage for their community. They wanted to showcase local news and weather as a service to their customers. Oh, and maybe sell some of their products and services while they’re at it.

Northern Truck Equipment Corp.
We sat down with the good folk at Northern Truck Equipment Corp. to talk about how we could make their website work better. It came down to organization, the ability to modify and update when they needed to, and a slick new interface. Enter NTECorp.com, a fresh new user-friendly site.

The Tony Ratchford Group
The new website for The Tony Ratchford Group is changing the way people search for homes in the Sioux Falls area. We’re the first in the region to bring indexable results for every listing in our region’s MLS. That means Google indexes every bit of info contained for every property listed is indexed, and this is a HUGE deal when it comes to searchability on the web.

Most realty sites pull data from a central database, called the MLS, and display this information on their individual websites. Trouble comes with how they display this information; it’s typically in an I-Frame, but none of the information in an I-Frame gets searched when Google, Yahoo or Bing’s computers index and rank sites. So it’s there, but these search engines can’t see it.

We came up with an awesome solution for this typical problem of the realty website industry. Through a bit of geek wizardry, we create individual pages for each piece of property in the MLS. Google, Yahoo! and Bing all see these as pieces of content, so they search and rate them accordingly. Now when users search for anything in the MLS through Google, The Tony Ratchford Group pops up.

For a slick online experience, we wrapped the project up in WordPress, some cool new CSS3 tricks and jQuery goodness. Even better, the client is in control of their site, including page content, featured homes, headlines and menu navigation. With this website, you don’t have to search long to find the best realty website in the region.

Huron Country Club
Huron Country Club needed a way to organize its events calendar and provide secure membership information, so we hooked them up with this clean, new site.

Interactive Flash Map

Youth Enrichment Services

Youth Enrichment Services
Youth Enrichment Services had all the information: locations, services, newsletters, lunch menus and groups. But they had no clear way to communicate the information quickly. Our expert team of thinkers sat down to devise the perfect interactive strategy.

YES is an amazing non-profit organization that stimulates learning in children, from infants to grade-schoolers. YES provides summer, afterschool and early childhood programs that get kids excited about learning. Yet, there was a disconnect between what people experience online and in person. We wanted their website to be as fun and engaging as their programs.

The new website has dynamic features that make parents’ lives easier, and it has the functionality for YES staff to update the site themselves. Top stories or events automatically appear on the home page, and tech-savvy parents can subscribe to their RSS feeds. Best of all, the new website makes finding the right location super easy—parents can search by location or program. With the new website, the YES staff provides parents with a constantly fresh (and informative) web experience.

South Dakota State University Foundation
Make it easy, make it prominent, and give donors a reason to come back — those were the goals in improving the online experience for the South Dakota State University Foundation.

Coffee News of Sioux Falls

Stick with the brand, adjust for the medium. When Steve Herman with the Coffee News of Sioux Falls came to us for an updated Web site, we set out to make the online experience (and update-ability process) as easy and fun as the publication, which is delivered to restaurants, coffee shops and hotels so readers get a daily dose of good news and humor.

Simply Devine
Sometimes the most important decisions you make come early on. For a startup like Simply Devine marketing online at first just made sense.

Prairie View Country Club & Estates at Lake Cochrane
It’s always about type and image when we talk about graphic design; and Prairie View was open to our ideas. Big bold headlines with a snarky new typeface. Rich vivid photography perfected to the pixel. It’s passion in every ounce of effort.

Southfork
The best part about hunting at a lodge is the camaraderie—especially at Southfork. So how best to let that feeling bleed out on to the cold confides of the Web?