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Arabian Horse Insider

Rob Simpson — Sat, 16 May 2009 15:58:01 +0000

The Arabian Horse Insider is a weekly broadcast designed to bring you the latest information relating to Arabian Horses and the Arabian Horse business. The site offers members the opportunity to listen to interviews online and participate in online interaction from each of the interviews. The site also has an advertising program that handles all of the requests for advertising on the website.

You can visit the Arabian Horse Insider at www.arabianhorseinsider.com.

Moriah Farm Show Ponies

Rob Simpson — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:17:42 +0000

Moriah Farm has been breeding ponies for twenty years and has experienced success from in-hand breeding championships to the regular and green pony hunter divisions. All of their ponies are professionally started and are sold with varying levels of training. Moriah Farm was in need of a website to give them another avenue of marketing their ponies for sale and to also introduce a new series of horse shows they will be putting on. We took a design they wanted integrated into the web and laid out a website that integrated flash slideshow and YouTube video’s of their sale ponies, along with many other features.

Headwaters Foundation

Rob Simpson — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 18:48:04 +0000

What a great project this was. A local non-profit organizations that works with the local schools was in major need of a website that would state their mission and promote the programs that they sponsor through the local schools and community. The original site was simply a page that went vertical with nothing that allowed a visitor to visual understand who Headwaters is. So we took the mission of Headwaters and gave it a face on the internet with the new design of headwatersfdn.org. With the use of a main page flash slideshow, a company blog, and visual appeal for their programs, Headwaters feels they now can appeal to those in the community when it comes to participation in their programs.

It was great to get away a little from the horse industry and go into a field that I have little knowledge of. The research was a lot of fun and finding ways to implement a site that would reflect Headwaters and their staff was a joy. They are great people to work with and they made the building process a lot of fun. What I likes the most from the work side was the more involved I was able to get with dynamic CSS. A great learning experience while I worked. Take the time to check out the site as they have a great mission, as does any program that deals with children.

Jeff Janson Equine Photography

Rob Simpson — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 21:54:53 +0000

Jeff Janson is one of the most artistic photographers I have met. Unfortunately his website did not match the work he did. His original site was very outdated and did not offer much as a portfolio or an avenue for people to view and/or purchase their photographs. So we took his work and created a site that would allow people to get a better idea of his work and to view the work he has done for them. We used some of the newest technologies to handle much of the work he would have had to do offline if the site was not set up to handle the workload for him. Some of the features include: Flash photo galleries, slideshows for featured stallions, dynamic handling of the order form where the purchase information would be dynamically placed in the offline order form and sent to Jeff via email, and others. We also created a section of the site to offer information in regards to horse insurance for Jeff’s wife, Mary, who does work for Jarvis Insurance. We offered the same type of dynamic form for those who needed to purchase Mortality Insurance for their horse(s). You can see the new site at www.jeffjanson.com

Region 15 Arabian Horses

Rob Simpson — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:55:44 +0000

Region 15 is a region of the Arabian Horse Association. The region serves the mid atlantic states and the horse clubs inside those states. The website can be visited by going to Region 15. The purpose of the site is to keep members informed of all activities going on in the region and the clubs inside the region. It also serves to promote for the members of those clubs.

One way that the region keeps visitors and members informed is by use of a forum. We installed the forum and set it up to match the site and the way they wanted to forums to work for their needs.

To help promote the members of the region, Region 15 had directories added. These directories are for farms, stallions, trainers and classified ads. All someone has to do is add their entry and the region verfies it before it goes live. To help with the graphical layout of the content of a directory listing, tabs are used for the content layout. We also added the ability to send to a friend, download dynamic PDF’s, contact forms, and more for each entry.

Cherokee Stables

Rob Simpson — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:11:54 +0000

Cherokee Stables came to SEMS Design asking for a total makeover of their current site. Most of the features of the site they had did not provide enough information for visitors to the site. Cherokee Stables wanted a new graphical front end with a backend that would do most of, if not all of, the work for them. Once we had the goal of Cherokee Stables front and center, we created the front end with a backend that was built on many of the latest technologies available on the internet.

One of the concerns Cherokee Stables had was that they had to post most of their information on a page Google supplied to them. Putting their information on the web was not a problem, but the page layout was not the same as it would be if they could have the information inside of the website. So we built a blog for Cherokee that was implemented into the website.

Below you will see the design feature that is now www.cherokeestables.biz.

City View Stable / Fancy Footworkin Ranch

Rob Simpson — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 18:28:21 +0000

City View Stable & Fancy Footworkin Ranch had been using Homestead as their web hosting provider. Homestead was charging $300 a year for hosting and not providing any design work for City View. They contacted SEMS Design to redesign the website they had along with providing cheaper hosting for the site.

Clear Lake Farm – Icelandic Horses

Rob Simpson — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:18:48 +0000

Clear Lake Farm (CLF) is an Equestrian Centre dedicated exclusively to Icelandic Horses. CLF is located on 220 acres in the beautiful Almaguin Highlands – about 3 hours north of Toronto / Ontario / Canada. One kilometer of lake shore along former Clear Lake (now Newell Lake) complements this charming property.

The project details included a complete redesign of their current website with the addition of a photo gallery and blog. The site that they had previously is show below:

After working closely with Clear Lake Farm we came up with a layout that they loved and felt would best represent their farm and the Icelandic horses. Below you will see the new website:

With the addition of a flash slideshow on the front along with some important information about the farm, we all felt that this would grab the attention of the visitors to the site. With the addition of a photo gallery that CLF could maintain themselves along with a blog that they could use to keep visitors informed of important information, both CLF and I felt that we found the right layout and navigational scheme for them.

If you would like to view the site you can do so by going to www.icelandichorses.ca.

Janson Editions Horse Art

Rob Simpson — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 22:50:10 +0000

Award winning photographer Jeff Janson Has devoted 21 years to the pursuit of capturing the equine image on film. Each image in the Janson Limited Edition collection is a unique interpretation of the equine spirit. Images are not only technical masterpieces, but exquisite compositions revealing the inherent nature of the horse.

Jeff was in need of web hosting for his prized artwork website. With our affordable prices we were able to help out. We have since done a complete redesign of the website that has added new technology for a better interactive experience for visitors. You can visit the website at http://www.jansoneditions.com.

Bottle Boy Wine Bottling

Rob Simpson — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 22:34:46 +0000

This is another adventure into non-horse web design. Bottle Boy Mobile Bottling website was set up so that the owner, Joe Sullivan, could have an avenue to communicate with all of the wineries he works for. This has helped him tremendously taking care of office work from his website that he otherwise would have to handle on the phone.

The site is a portal that runs a forum. SEMS Design took care of all the design, interactive scripts, set up, and hosting of the site. You can see the site at http://www.bottleboymobilebottling.com.

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