Design Portfolio

Web
Advanced Web
Search Engine Optimization
Printed Collateral
Flash

Web Design

Computer Courage creates cutting edge web design. Our graphic designers and programmers work together as a team to create websites that are beautiful, usable, and browser/search engine friendly.

CAL Greeks – http://www.calgreeks.com

The Fraternity / Sorority site of CAL Greeks, UC Berkeley.

Holliday Development – http://www.hollidaydevelopment.com

A site for a local real estate development company with an extensive portfolio and blog.

Earthly Basics – http://www.earthlybasics.com

Earthly Basics is a furniture store with an extensive website, showcasing the variety of products they offered in their store.

West Coast Coating Consultants – http://www.westcoastcoatingconsultants.com/

A construction styled website for a coating inspection company.

Planted Earth – http://www.plantedearth.org

A simple, polished site for a local architecture firm.

Casa Dorada – http://www.casadorada.com

A clean, professional website for this Mexico-based resort. Features include online booking.

Luxury Villas of Los Cabos – http://www.luxuryvillasloscabos.com

A site displaying the wonders of Luxury Villas of Los Cabos in Mexico – complete with online booking and numerous photo galleries.

Advanced Web

We can create advanced web design options for you including Flash programming, E-Commerce, Wordpress integration, Drupal Content Management and custom database database integration.

Four Blank Walls – http://www.4blankwalls.com/

An advanced flash based website with an intergrated shopping cart using Google Checkout.

Reform Your Body Pilates – http://www.reformyourbodypilates.com/

A clean and simple website for a local pilates studio in Berkley.

La Vista Resort Map – http://www.lavistacabo.com/map

This Flash based, zoomable, custom map is an example of our advances Adobe Flash and database skills. The map uses a custom database, written in MySQL, administrated from a password-protected backend. The database information is displayed beautifully, right in the Flash object, and can be updated at any time by the client.

Oakville East Exposure – http://www.oakvilleeast.com

This Flash based website was created for a winery in the Napa Valley region of California. This site features smooth animations, beautiful font and type work, an an interactive contact box.

The Chaplaincy Institute – http://www.chaplaincyinstitute.org/

A site for a local interfaith non-profit organization. Site includes content management system and database integration, allowing for complete user-centered control over online newsletter and article administration.

Baby Jak – http://www.babyjak.com

A fully-featured e-commerce store with animated product selector.

Serena & Lily

A completely customized blog built to enhance this online nursery store.

Search-Engine-Optimization

What good is a great site if nobody can find it? All of our websites are written for searchability. We study the SEO (Search Engine Optimization) blogs each week to keep up with the latest ways to ensure your site will appear on all the major search engines. Our sites are coded in a way that the search engine bots, or “web spiders” can easily find your site’s content and get it listed. That’s not enough? We can help you increase your rank with our premium SEO service.

Fast Haul - http://www.fasthaul.com/

This site uses a highly aggressive display strategy to increase organic results. Try searching for a variety of relevant searches to see where Fast Haul ranks. Example searches are trash removal Berkeley, junk removal Berkeley, trash removal Oakland, junk removal Oakland, and so on. Try it with other Bay Area cities as well.

Liaise Solutions - http://www.liaisesolutions.com

Liaise Mediated Solutions is an Alternative Dispute Resolution firm in California. Computer Courage helped Liaise convert their site to WordPress, install analytics tools, improve keyword use, and start an aggressive link building campaign.

Apparel Arts – http://www.apparel-arts.com

Apparel Arts is a fashion design school in San Francisco. In order to get more students for the school, Computer Courage helped Apparel Arts optimize their site for keywords such as Fashion Design School, Design School, Fashion School, and Patternmaking School. Try any of these keywords combined with San Francisco, and see where Apparel Arts stands in the results.

Professional Insurance Evaluations – http://proadjuster.com/

A small, but heavenly search-optimized website for an insurance adjuster.

Reform Your Body Pilates – http://www.reformyourbodypilates.com/

A clean and simple website for a local pilates studio in Berkley.(Try searching for Pilates Berkeley)

Print, Logo Design, and more

Logo design, business cards, newsletters, printed brochures, full-scale banners

Craigslist Foundation

Branding and various print work to help promote the 6th annual Craigslist Foundation Bootcamp.

The Children’s Hospital of Oakland Research Institute (CHORI)

Logo design and branding, in addition to printed and online newsletter template design developed for CHORI and its forthcoming global health projects.

Tishman Sunrise Lotus, LLC

Cody’s Books

Colorful and refreshing online and printed promotional materials designed for Cody’s Books, one of Berkeley’s beloved local establishments.

Logo design and brand identity for a start up architectural consulting firm. A website will be created along with the brand identity in the second half of 2008.