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Web Client Recommendations

SITES PRODUCED OR UPGRADED
These are sites I produced or redesigned. You will see a variety of design styles, tailored to the needs of each client. Some sites I directed work of a graphic artist, other sites I designed. Some sites were modified by clients since completion. Older sites are generally lower on the lists

MEDIA

New Muslim Cool
Produced site for new documentary, the premiere program on PBS P.O.V series for 2009.

Leah Mahan Productions
Produced site for independent documentary producer, using WordPress as a content management system.

New Day Films
Produced site for the premiere media distribution coop of independent filmmakers. Design by Free Range.

Sutro Tower
Produced site on the status and history of the Bay Area's landmark TV and radio transmission tower.

WorldLink
Produced site for organization that creates award-winning media and education campaigns to help create a sustainable future.

Cynthia Stevenson
Produced site for actress starring in the new ABC series "Surviving Suburbia".

Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers' Struggle
PBS Online
Produced new version of this PBS Online site for the definitive documentary on Cesar Chavez and the UFW.

Video Librarian
Produced and designed site for this national video review publication, including adding member only area with searchable review database.

Stylo Films
Produced and designed site for long-time, award-winning documentary filmmakers.

Ellen Bruno Films
Site
producer for this Sundance award-winning independent documentary producer.

Bullfrog Films
Best of Web Site Award, CCUMC
Developed site plan, consulted on plan implementation, developed online store, added search engine.

Ancestors in the Americas/CET
S
ite producer, content developer and online promotion for Ford Foundation-Funded PBS project by Loni Ding.

Catenary Video Productions
Site designer and producer for this site dedicated to historic railroad videos.
NONPROFITS & SCHOOLS

Park Day School
Produced new site for this progressive independent school, using Schoolwires content management system.

Los Alamitos District Schools
Produced new site for the 11 schools in this district, using Schoolwires content management system.

Orinda District Schools
Produced new site for this school district, using Schoolwires content management system.

Secret Gardens of the East Bay
Produced site for this popular annual event that benefits Park Day School.

Sports for the World's Children
Produced and designed site for organization that provides donated sports equipment to kids in need.

Exploring Japanese American Internment
Best of Net, About.com
Produced site on WWII Internment for NAATA, including extensive online video clips, text and images.


SMALL BUSINESS

Barefoot Yoga
Produced new home page for this leading online yoga clothing and supply site. The rest of the site will be redesigned soon.

John Leonard Studio
Produced and designed site for master craftsman of fine jewelry and precious metal sculpture.

Real Dream Music
Site producer, designer; developed and implemented online publicity.

Contek Wholesale
Featured Site, Skipjack Business Network
(now offline)
Produced and designed site for new company developing and marketing innovative consumer products for resale; added sophisticated ecommerce cart .

For more small business clients see also Ecommerce installations below



E-COMMERCE & ONLINE DONATIONS
I can install several secure shopping carts, depending upon a client's needs. It can be tailored to fit the look of your site and used for selling products, booking tickets, or event registration and for taking online membership and donations.

New Day Films
Installed online order cart for long-time collective media distributor.

National Asian American Telecommunications Association (NAATA)
Installed online cart for video sales, including designing buttons, and online membership.

Barefoot Yoga

Installed online shopping cart for yoga products site, selling yoga mats, yoga clothing and more.

Bullfrog Films
Installed online shopping cart and search engine for educational video catalog.

Fanlight Productions
Installed online order cart for health video catalog.

Women's Educational Media
Installed online shopping cart for videos and printed materials, and secure online donation form.

Park Day School Garden Tour
Installed online cart for ordering tickets to school benefit event (now disabled).

Catenary Video Productions
Installed online cart for video ordering.

Promises Project

Installed online cart and developed product pages for documentary video sales and poster.

Talking Eyes Media
Installed online cart and revised product pages for documentary and book ordering on aging in America.

Iris Films
Installed online cart and revised product pages for documentary on race.



SITE PROMOTION
A good site isn't much value without proper publicity -- both online and offline. My site promotion work can include developing publicity plans, search engine optimization and registration, listings in key directories, promotion to listservs, seeking links, advertising and more.

Contek Wholesale

Parent's Action for Children

Law Offices of Harvey Hyman

Union of Concerned Scientists

Bullfrog Films

Fanlight Productions

First Run/Icarus Films

Green Fire Productions

Mal Warwick and Associates

Adolescent Health Foundation, USF

Ansel Adams Gallery/Friends of Photography

Barefoot Yoga

United Jewish Communities

Surfing for Life (PBS documentary)

Seniors for Peace (PBS documentary)

Of Wind and Waves: The Life of Woody Brown

SITE MANAGEMENT
I manage several sites, including updating pages, adding new pages, etc. In some cases I do the more complex work in conjunction with a person on staff who does the more basic updates.

New Day Films
Long-established collective of media producers. GO

Barefoot Yoga
Yoga products business, selling yoga mats, yoga clothing and more.GO

WEB CLIENT RECOMMENDATIONS
    (sample comments)

    "Thank you for your excellent work on our behalf. I have benefitted from your insights and professionalism."
    - Norman Rosenberg, Executive Director, Parents' Action for Children

    "I think you did a great job on the site and I thank you for all your patience and good humor. It was a pleasure to work with you."
    - Gloria Troy, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Municipal Art Society, New York – Urban Center Books

    "The site is working very well (in large part thanks to your really smart design work). What I am ultimately most pleased with and most grateful for is your excellent sales and navigation suggestions."
    -
    Randy Pitman, Founder, Video Librarian

    "I just have to take a moment to tell you that what you've created in this web site is just plain great. And thanks again for your consistently professional and personable working habits and abilities. I can't imagine what this thing would've been like without you."
    - Michael Koppy, Producer, Digital Independence 2001

    "Thanks, Steve, for all of your help. It was sooo exciting to verify that our first order on the new system went off without a hitch. Thank you thank you...We would not be where we are with this thing without you.
    - Cathy Shields, Garden Tour Coordinator, Park Day School

    "Really appreciate your aesthetic - everything pops out really clear and there are subtleties to it that give it a terrifically professional feel. Your design makes the same pics, descriptions and pricing from our old site look spectacular!!"
    - Russ Gage, Administrative Director, Frameline.
    - Preeti Misty, Frameline Distribution

    "I just have to tell you how delighted I am - we are - to be working with you and how refreshing your smart, competent, straight forward, this-is-what-I've-done-and-this-is-what-I-need style is!"
    - Helen Cohen, CoDirector, Women's Educational Media

    "The web site is fabulous! Its beautiful, easy to access, and chock full of all the good stuff we've wanted the public to know. Finally, what we've been trying to make happen, happened. I'm excited and very happy with it...there are many nice touches you created.Thanks for doing such a high quality job for us."
    - Dr. Satsuki Ina, Director, Children of the Camps Project

    "I almost hear on a daily basis, that our site is the most comprehensive and easiest site to maneuver that people have ever used!! Really good comments constantly about the site -- every day!! So good job and thanks."
    - Kelly LeFebvre, Owner, Barefoot Yoga

    "Our collaboration with Steve...was a highly successful experience. His knowledge of...online technologies was essential to creating what we think is one of the best and most useful Web sites for the (media) field."
    - Helen DeMichiel, Director, National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture (NAMAC)

    "Working with 'wonder-consultant' Steve Ladd was a real pleasure. He offered guidance, support and a tremendous amount of knowledge that helped us create a much more effective Web site."
    - Tamara Gould, Assoc. Director, Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC)

    "I would never have conceived and carried this out without your confident handling and finessing of every detail, and bringing to the project the execution of an experienced pro. Thank you, Steve."
    - Loni Ding, Producer, ANCESTORS IN THE AMERICAS
    Executive Director, Center for Educational Telecommunications

    "Thank you again for your diligent and insightful assistance. I'm glad to report that our Web site...is aready listed with most of the major search engines. The real good news is that our sales are brisk and getting brisker all the time."
    - Eldon Asp, Spiritsmanship Productions

    "...Little did any of us know how much you, and NEMN, would accomplish. NEMN is truly indebted to you."
    - Jayne Becker, President, National Educational Media Network (NEMN)

    "We really appreciate all the wonderful work you've done!"
    - Heidi Emberling, New Day Films

    Steve Ladd was also featured in the nationally syndicated TV news show, "Quicken Money Reports".


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