Our Projects

Organization Background and Goals:

Bliss is a non-profit organization run by Rabbi Stephen Baars and focuses of developing winning relationships, both for married couples as well as in the corporate environment. They provide seminars and workshops on marriage, parenting and relationship building. Their goals for the website were to:

Organization Background and Goals:

Gateway Community Church is a church located in the Dulles area of Northern Virginia. They have a strong focus on Christian community and relationships, both with God and with each other. Their goals for the website were to:

Company Background and Goals:

Carefree Office focuses on providing high quality imaging equipment, supplies, services and office products to their customers in the Northern Virgina, Washington, D.C. and Maryland areas. Since 1995, they have built and maintained a reputation for excellence by surpassing the expectations of our customers. Their goals for the site were:

• Have a professional, high quality site that is representative of their own quality of service and professionalism.
• Attract prospective customers by highlighting their products and services.
• Provide a better customer experience for their existing customers by simplifying ordering products, and other routine customer interactions.
• Have a dynamic website that would allow them to quickly and easily update content, product information, and pricing to be able to quickly respond to industry and competitive changes.
• Drive more traffic to their website from the search engines.

Katalyst Role:

We worked with Carefree Office to develop the navigation structure, the content outline, and website design that met each of their goals and objectives. We implemented the content management system to allow them to maintain their content, manage their menus, and upload product images. We also successfully deployed an online newsletter subscription feature, which allows their customers and prospective customers to subscribe to receive monthly pricing specials via email.

Features:

• Content Management System
• Search Engine Optimization
• Automatically Updating Sitemap
• Online Newsletter Subscription
• Information Architecture
• Site Search Capability
• Website Design

Technologies:

PHP, xHTML, CSS, MySQL database, JavaScript

Organization Background and Goals:

The BIG Event is an annual event sponsored by Gateway Community Church and local area businesses in the Loudoun County and Fairfax County areas. Gateway had the following goals for the site:

Company Background and Goals:

The National Law Center for Children and Families (NLC) is a non-profit law center formed in 1991 and has since served as an agent of change and education in the area of child sexual exploitation and obscenity law. Their website goals were:

Company Background and Goals:

Best Kids, Inc., is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that provides mentoring to foster care children in the District of Columbia's Abuse and Neglect System. Foster care children are the most at-risk population of children in America. Their goals for the site were:

Company Background and Goals:

MillerMusmar is a CPA firm with offices in Reston and Manassas, Virginia. They have been providing auditing, tax, business valuation, accounting and financial management consulting services to clients throughout the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area since 1989.

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WELLTrek International™ is a telemedicine consultancy firm. They work with hospitals, health clinics, doctors' offices, and other health related firms to assist in designing and implement telehealth programs. Their goals for the site were:

Company Background and Goals:

It’s Your Time offers concierge and personal assistance services in the Northern Virginia area. They desired that the site be both an informational site for people to learn about their services as well as a strong sales tool to generate leads. It's Your Time wanted their website to be a key component of their marketing plan and needed a strong search engine presence.

Company Background and Goals:

401kMaximizer publishes a monthly newsletters targeting the airline industry employees. They desired that the site provide subscribers' with automated access to the newsletters and provide an efficient system to allow the 401kMaximizer team to better support their subscribers. They also desired for the site to be a strong sales tool to generate new subscriptions.

Katalyst Role:

For 401kMaximizer, we implemented a Membership Management system, which allows a subscriber to pay online as well as get immediate access to his or her subscriptions. The subscriber has a login page in a secure area, which allows the user to access his or her newsletter(s), update passwords and contact info, and renew subscriptions.

In creating their design, we used their colors and logo to match their overall branding strategy. We migrated them from the Mambo content management system to the Joomla content management system (CMS), which offered a number of feature enhancements and security improvements.

Features:

• Membership Subscription Management
• Joomla Content Management System
• Website Design
• eCommerce
• Flash

Technologies:

PHP, xHTML, CSS, Flash, MySQL, JavaScript

Company Background and Goals:

BoxesByJessie.com is the site for the artist, Jessie Mann. Jessie specializes in designing and painting Limoges Porcelain and English Enamel boxes for an upscale clientele. Jessie desired that the site be both an informational site for prospective clients to learn about her work as well as a strong sales tool to generate sales. Jessie's site is to be a key component of her marketing plan to enhance and compliment her strong referral base.

Company Background and Goals:

Tysons Auto Specialties is a full service car maintenance and automotive repair shop in Vienna, VA. They pride themselves on personal service and strive to build long-lasting relationships and satisfied customers. Tysons Auto stands out from other mechanic shops by assisting their clients in making well-informed decisions based on the car owner's needs and goals. Their goals for their new website were:

• Provide an improved communication medium for client communications.
• Provide information on the services that Tysons Auto offers.
• Improve the site design and functionality.

Katalyst Role:

For Tysons Auto Specialties, we implemented an On-line Newsletter subscription system and an On-Line Customer Satisfaction Survey. The newsletter system allows Tysons Auto customers to subscribe online as well as unsubscribe, all without Tysons Auto staff having to intervene. The staff can then upload new newsletter content each month and send out the newsletter via email with automated links back to their website. The customer satisfaction survey will allow Tysons Auto to gather feedback on their customers’ experience to use to improve their service.

Features:

• Website Design
• Content Management System
• Online Newsletter Subscription
• Information Architecture
• Site Search Capability
• Automatically Updating Sitemap
• Auto-Rotating Quotes for Client Testimonials
• Customer Satisfaction Survey

Technologies:

PHP, xHTML, CSS, MySQL database