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We’ve moved!

Siteshine, along with its sister company North Bay Startup, recently moved into our brand new office at 500 North Main Street in downtown Sebastopol, CA. It’s a shared co-working space run by Sebastopol Entrepreneurs Project, an initiative sponsored by the Sebastopol City Council that is geared towards supporting new startups and entrepreneurs (hence the name).

We are very excited to be here! Not only is it a cool office space to work in, but we’re pleased to be supporting the efforts of SEP to spur innovation and grassroots business development in the local economy. That’s what Siteshine is all about! Give us a heads up some time and stop by to say Hi or talk shop. We always welcome visitors!

First Presbyterian Church – New Site

Another website done and live! We are super thrilled to be the launch partner for First Presbyterian Church of Santa Rosa. In spring of 2011, Dale, the lead pastor and Leigh, the communications coordinator for FPC contacted Siteshine and invited us to bid on FPC’s extensive website redesign effort. We were pleased to be selected for the project and are very happy with the results!

From FPC’s purpose page: “OUR MISSION STATEMENT: Submitting ourselves to the claims of Jesus Christ, together we seek to honor him, embody his presence and proclaim his gospel with authenticity, humility, and love.”

Visit the First Presbyterian Church of Santa Rosa website »

Note: Armed with FPC’s logo by Zelaya Designs, Siteshine designed and developed a fully-custom WordPress theme.

Arousing Success: Just Launched

Siteshine is pleased to announce our latest client project has just gone live! Arousing Success is the website for Dr. Jeannie LeMesurier, a clinical psychologist, life coach and motivational speaker. Her training in both psychology and life coaching is extensive, and in addition she is a graduate of Jack Canfield’s elite Train the Trainers Program (yes, that Jack Canfield, of Chicken Soup for the Soul fame).

Check out her brand new website, and if you are looking for success in life in both the personal or business arenas, talk to Dr. Jeannie.

Note: Siteshine was provided a style guide and background and built out the rest of the site design and navigation by creating a fully-custom WordPress theme.

Presenting Tomorrow @ the North Bay Web Design Conference

Heads up, the North Bay Web Design Conference is tomorrow! I will be a featured speaker presenting on mobile design and development. Not native app development, but using web technologies (HTML5/CSS3/jQuery/etc.). If you’re into iPhone, iPad, Android, and the rest of the latest generation mobile platforms, this topic is going to rock.

There are only a very few tickets left, so if you want to come, hurry up and register for the first-ever North Bay Web Design Conference!

Featured Speaker: North Bay Web 2011

I am honored to be speaking at the upcoming, inaugural conference for the web design industry based in the North San Francisco Bay. As the site says, we’ve all had to go to San Francisco, or further, for web conferences, but no longer!

My presentation is titled From Clicks to Gestures: Developing for a Mobile, Touch-based World, and I will be sharing about the four key areas that web designers and product managers must focus on as they prepare sites and applications for mobile touch-based devices. If that floats your boat, mark your calendar for April 12, 2011 and register for the first-ever North Bay Web Design Conference!

Just Launched: DJ Dax Online

DJ Dax OnlineWe’re pleased to announce our latest client project is now on the web! This was a really, really fun project for us to work on and posed some interesting engineering challenges. Read more about it on our Portfolio, and then check out the new DJ Dax Online.

From our writeup:

DJ Dax is a phenomenally successful DJ based in Sonoma County, California. He has provided services at such prestigious venues as Francis Ford Coppola winery, Sonoma State University, Mary Agatha Furth Center, Hyatt Vineyard Creek, and Kenwood Farms & Gardens. From weddings to corporate events, from school dances to sports team celebrations, DJ Dax can do it all. When looking at his client list and testimonials, DJ Dax’s professionalism speaks for itself.

Evolution of a Logo

Our Siteshine logo has gone through several iterations since first launching in December 2009. How did we arrive at our newest version? As you can see, our corporate branding and website were totally relaunched changed as of yesterday, and we thought it’d be a good idea to explain some of the reasoning behind both the previous versions as well as the latest.
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7 out of 10 Adults Never Use White Pages, 60% Find Contact Info Online

WhitePages.com and its Ban the Phone Book initiative today announced the results from a December online survey conducted on its behalf by Harris Interactive. The survey shows that nearly 7 out of 10 American adults rarely or never use the white pages phone book for looking up phone numbers and addresses for people or businesses, 87 percent support opt-in initiatives where they would receive the phone book only if requested, and 60 percent of online adults find the contact information they need through online channels (online directories — 29 percent, search engines — 28 percent or social networks — 3 percent).”

From MSNBC

Just Launched: Potential Plus Consulting

We are excited to announce the launch of our latest client website, Potential Plus Consulting. Siteshine was hired by David Gustafson in November 2010 to develop a website for his consulting firm, and in only two months we collaborated with him and his logo designer to craft a professional, quality website. We helped create the marketing impact of the home page and developed a straightforward navigation outline. The website design was built on top of WordPress, allowing David full access to update the site as needed down the road in order to promote Potential Plus Consulting easily and effectively.

I hope you enjoy visiting the new site as much as we enjoying developing it!

Just Launched: Rotary Club of Santa Rosa

I’m pleased to announce the brand-new site Siteshine just completed for the one of the largest of the Rotary Clubs in Sonoma County. I was fortunate enough to meet the chair of their website redesign committee right at the time when they were beginning to think they could use some outside assistance, and in no time we were sitting down and thinking up some really neat ideas. Over the course of the last couple of months, we nailed down the design and layout, and I helped their content author learn how to use the new WordPress-based editing system.

The domain name just switched over to the new site, so if you see an odd link or image not working as expected, please let me know. I hope you enjoy checking out Santa Rosa Rotary Club!