The Salt Lake Country Club was the site for the June 22nd 2009 annual Habitat for Humanity Golf Tournament. As an official sponsor Red Olive was allowed four spots and sponsored a hole. We felt horribly guilty for leaving the rest of the team at the office to go participate in a public relations function, but it’s. It was a gorgeous day with temps in the 70s, couldn’t ask for better. Brad Hoen and Justin Wilde, our resident golf pros landed us square in the middle of the score board while Myself and Vince Stinson kept our humility in check.
Members of the Red Olive Team at Habitat for Humanity Golf Tournament
After months of whittling down the list of web design firms with the not only the interactive capability but the usability experience to build an engaging site, Discovery Gateway has made a decision on a firm to redesign thier existing site. Our design team really digs the opportunity to work on projects that have no boundaries and where they can really express some creative freedom. Yeah don’t get to carried away guys, still needs to perform and be usable to kids and parents.
DG comped us some family passes to get some first hand experience on what they were all about, so we went this last weekend. Let’s just say my daughter had a blast! They have everything from a full size Life Flight helicopter on the roof, to a mock up KSL 5 news room studio there. They give kids the chance to not only learn about science, art, etc, but also real careers. I was born a tinkerer so it was right up my alley. Thanks for the opp, let the creative begin.
Ever searched around looking for the mime-type for the newer Microsoft Word .docx file type? Search no more. It comes in handy for web development when you have an uploader app in PHP or ASP and need to determine the file type. Tested in PHP and works perfect. Hope this saves someone some time searching.
Ranking for keywords is becoming an exact science. We have a client that has been in the Folding Table industry for 20+ years. Subsequently they have been in the top 10 Google results for “folding tables” for quite some time. While they have had great position for “folding tables,” they were hanging back on the 5th-6th page for “folding table.” After some research, we discovered the content and link structure was 80% +/- geared towards the plural version of folding table.
Check out the results of a little re-organization below:
Got an extra 12,000 Lego pieces laying around? Have you ever wondered what your corporate logo would look like fashioned entirely out of Legos? Go get a few cases of Red Bull and tear down that lame Empire State Building you and your dad put together back in 95 and find out. Below is a time lapse video of our gigantic 40″ X 80″ Red Olive Logo being built out of 12,000+ Legos.
…where they belong. Turning Point Centers and Red Olive SEO teamed up to tackle the search engines for Utah Drug Rehab rankings. After a few short months of focusing on content and code, together we were able to surpass many of the road blocks to top rankings.
The top 10 spots for many of these key-terms are taken up by “drug rehab directories.” Many times the link back these directories typically require to be listed on their sites can be worth more than the link they give you. That is part of the reason they are usually in the top 10 and hard to topple. Think about it… if you have 30 pages full of drug rehab related content, which starts to make you an authority on drug rehab information, and you pass a link to a directory they receive a big boost in link juice. Now if that directory merely has a bunch of links on it, they appear to be an authority on links, not necessarily drug rehab. So you are trading 30 pages of content and information for a link from a site with a couple pages of links on them. I am not saying directories are bad, because they are helpful when used correctly, simply be careful when link trading. Remember, you can’t go wrong with content. Content is King.
Thanks Turning Point for letting us work on this project.
The Red Olive creative team took advantage of the amazing opportunity to develop a brand for baja racing’s TSA Motorsports. TSA recently migrated over to the baja circuit from competitive rock crawling. Collecting sponsors is an important part of any racing teams funding. Our goal was to build an identity around the TSA team that demanded respect from other teams and to wow prospective sponsors. Perk: Red Olive’s name appears on the race gear and the vinyl wraps for the trucks, a rolling billboard that competes. (Thanks again for that honor).
Below are some samples of the new identity, web design, and some collateral.
PREVIEW OF THE NEW DIGS:
Due next month is the new interactive flash website where you can keep up on the teams standings, events, race photos, and more.
Red Olive welcomes a new web developer to the team, Aric Beagley. Been here two weeks and he is currently attempting to convince the office that Ubuntu makes for the best desktop OS, the Mac guys had to laugh, and the windows guys said what the hell is Ubuntu? Needless to say he isn’t getting very far with his campaign. However one thing we could all agree on, he has finally brought unity to the development team that jquery is king and should not be challenged by the inferior mootools.
Aric was brought on to raise the bar with our web2.0 and ajax efforts. So far so good. His CSS, JavaScript, and XML skills are amazing and in his short time here he has already made an impact on our development processes.
And on a personal note, even though he is a die hard Mitsubishi EVO fan he has learned to tolerate conversations about the arch enemy the Shelby GT500, what a trooper.
Red Olive, a utah web design firm, is honored for the opportunity to design and develop the brand new website for SportEar which is the company responsible for introducing the first Micro Comfort Canal 100% Digital hearing/protection device to the sportsman.
SportEar’s products are like none else, they protect one’s hearing while maintaining the ability to hear when participating in activities such as hunting, trap/skeet shooting, wing shooting, auto racing, concerts, etc.
The new site is scheduled to be completed in April.
You haven’t had Toffee until you’ve had Toffee by English Tofee Anytime. Typically I only see or eat toffee around the Holidays… But ETA, is true to it’s name. After you taste English Toffee Anytime’s delicious toffee, you will agree that this stuff is great anytime. Our entire office is now addicted to this wonderful english toffee. We have had the opportunity to run a quick Utah SEO campaign for this Online Toffee Store. Step 1: We sent in some samples of their english toffee to the search engines: Here are the results:
Truthfully, we didn’t really send in samples to the search engines. But we did do some on-site optimization. Thanks ETA!
