THAT Agency Design Studio Blog

Known for our background in hotel website design, development and marketing, THAT Agency was sought out to develop and assist with the marketing efforts for The Iron Horse Hotel (www.theironhorsehotel.com), a boutique hotel located in the heart of downtown Milwaukee.  THAT Agency took the vision of the client, applied search engine optimization recommendations and developed the website.

The new website is built around a content management system, allowing the hotel staff to update images and content, as their needs arise.  They can manage: photos, content, media, packages, and much more.  For search engine optimization benefits, the site utilizes animation, without the use of flash, allowing the text to be more easily searched.

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The Marriott hotel approached THAT Agency to design and develop a new online presence for one of their on-property nightclubs, Club Safari in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida (www.clubsafaripbg.com).  As a long standing nightclub in Palm Beach County, the club wanted to refresh their website look and feel, as well as offer some additional functionality to their patrons.

In an effort to update the club’s website, so that the club and hotel could cater to a range of crowds, THAT Agency created a new website design, backed by a custom content management system, which allows Club Safari to constantly update their website with new and fresh content and images.  The end result is a website that not only creates a mood and registers a felling, but can be utilized as an informational and marketing tool.

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Scozia Insurance approached THAT Agency to design and develop a new online presence for their website (www.scoziainsurance.com).  The main goal for the website was associate an emotion to the insurance business, so that visitors of the website would have an emotional response tied to their visit, which would in turn, result to a policy.  This was accomplished with the imagery selected throughout the site.

Additionally, the site is backed by a content management system, allowing the customer to have complete control over their website and the content and images within.

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Referred to THAT Agency by MakeaChangeToday.org, WhyWeight.org contracted THAT Agency to develop their website. The website was built around a content management system, allowing the client to manage the website’s content, as well as integrated lengthy testimonial videos.

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THAT Agency was contacted by an existing, long-time client to assist with the creation of his new consulting website, Hotel Internet Help.  With a strong background in the hotel and travel industry, www.hotelinternethelp.com was created as a website in which frustrated hotel owners and upper management, could come to seek advice and services to HELP their hotel, its website and marketing efforts.

In an effort to turn around the website quickly, and cost effectively, THAT Agency designed and developed the website around the open source platform, WordPress.  Known for its ease of integration and plethora of features, THAT Agency felt it would be robust enough to handle the type of information being collected and generated.

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Distinctive Palm Beach Properties Home Page

THAT Agency captured the allure and sophistication of Palm Beach when designing and developing a online presence for a brother-sister real estate team, with the innovative website www.distinctivepalmbeachproperties.com.  The website is based around the 960-grid system in principle, creating a clean, Web 2.0 look and feel.  The muted color scheme of the white with steely gray, allows the magnificent imagery of the Island of Palm Beach to tell its own story.

In addition to the sophisticated design, the website is backed by a content management system, allowing the client complete control over their website’s content and imagery.  The website is also integrated with two different MLS’, allowing the website visitor complete access to all listings found on the island.  With a plethora of ways to search the website, each visitor is sure to find what they are looking for.

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Charm Her Jewelry

THAT Agency returns to it’s roots to design and develop a fully integrated ecommerce flash jewelry designing website.  Years ago, desiging and developing a similar site for Invicta Watches, THAT Agency capitalized on their experience to create a modern version for charm bracelets.

With its sleek design and feminine color scheme, the Charm Her Jewelry website is every girls dream.  Site visitors are able to broswer through Ready-made charm jewelry creations, or if they are feeling creative, they can customize their own bracelet and/or matching earrings.

The entire store is backed by a content management system, allowing the client to upload new product on the fly.  Additionally, they are able to fullfill orders as they are placed.

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Make A Change Today

THAT Agency was contracted to develop the website for Make A Change Today.  In addition to website development, THAT Agency was also asked to perform an indepth analysis of the client competitor websites, and develop a strategy for on-site optimization.

The Make A Change Today website was built around a content management system (CMS), allowing the client complete control over their website’s content and imagery.  Additionally, the website consists of three lenghtly videos, that THAT Agency converted into flash movies, that stream in, allowing for maximum page load, while the video begins playing.

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Aztec Acquisitions

The goal of the website for Aztec Acquisitions was to establish a professional and trustworthy appearance.  During THAT Agency’s discovery process, Aztec Acquisitions was asked to deliver a list of adjectives for use during the design process. THAT Agency turned this exercise around, and utilized the powerful words as a design feature within the header of each page.  THAT Agency took advantage of the primitive nature of the logo and term “Aztec”, to create a color palette that was simplistic, yet added variations and subtle graphical interests with the use of gradients.  With a distinct call-to-action color, each visitor to the site is sure to know where they are, and where they need to go.

In addition to the creative design, the Ask Aztec website is backed by a full Content Management System (CMS) that allows Aztec Acquisitions to have full control of the site.  An additional feature of the website is the system, THAT Agency created, in which a site visitor could elect to receive FREE information via email on a set daily, weekly or monthly interval.

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American Graduate School in Paris

THAT Agency partnered with The American Graduate School in Paris to not only update their website’s look and feel, but to increase their online reach by expanding into untouched search markets.  The website design was constructed around the 960 grid system, which resulted in clean, educational design worthy of any University.

The American Graduate School in Paris requested the website be integrated with the robust and stable Joomla platform.  Utilizing the custom templates and menus, THAT Agency’s developers were able to bring to reality, the vision of both the school and the designers.  By creating custom modules, the Graduate School has the versatility to manage and update their site themselves, while still maintaining the uniformity the designers set in place.

In addition to designing and developing a beautiful website, THAT Agency was contracted by the American Graduate School in Paris for regular maintenance, as well as ongoing marketing efforts, including: search engine optimization, pay per click management and social media marketing.

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