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Cracking the Academic Department Website Challenge

University academic departments have some unique challenges when it comes to their websites. They typically have few, if any, marketing resources, and all too often their websites are built by volunteers from within the department. We applaud the volunteers for their energy and enthusiasm, but unfortunately they generally lack the skills to create an outstanding website.

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Where Have We Been? Building Great Sites

It has being quiet here on the Webvanta blog for an embarrassingly long time. Our silence is not from a lack of things to write about, but quite the contrary—we have been heads-down delivering a long series of website projects, and we have lots of insights we're eager to share. We've resolved to do better at sharing our thoughts, and to clear the decks, in this post we'll highlight a few of our recent projects.

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Modernizing MacBeath Hardwood's Web and Email

When we first connected with Jon MacBeath at MacBeath Hardwood, he was facing a series of technology challenges he wasn't sure how to address. His email service had become unreliable, he wasn't getting acceptable support from the provider, and the company's website was in dire need of an overhaul.

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The Nature Conservancy Salmon Site Leverages Webvanta Platform

The Nature Conservancy, in partnership with the Department of Fish and Game, has been leading the effort to collect and publish data about the plight of Salmon in California. We were delighted to be chosen as their web development partner to create the first ever public repository of detailed information on salmon populations: California Salmon Snapshots.

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Art History Website Leads in Design, Function

Most university department websites are, to be blunt, unattractive and underwhelming. It's a blunt assessment, but it doesn't take a lot of browsing around to see that it is true. For the University of California, Berkeley History of Art Department, it was time to break out of the "ugly and hard to update" model that is the curse of utilitarian websites.

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Continuing Education Site Delivers Self-Service Courses

Webvanta recently completed a new website for ATrain Education, one of the premiere suppliers of continuing education training for nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists, and related professions. The new site replaces a custom-built, PHP-based site that required many business processes to be performed manually, was hard to update, and had some weak spots in user experience.

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Music Academy Site is Carefully Tuned

The Music Academy of the is a remarkable place. Founded in 1947, the classical music school serves about 150 of the world's best classical music students with an 8-week summer program. We were thrilled to be selected by the Academy and its marketing consultant, Patty Gessner, to build and host a new site for the Music Academy.

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New Site Highlights Spectacular Friesian and Warmblood Horses

We're excited to take live a beautiful site we've been working on for several months, for Iron Spring Farm in the hills of Pennsylvania.

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Using a Single Database for a Mobile App and a Website

Often, a mobile app uses data that is also displayed on a website. For ease of administration, it's best to have all the information stored in one place and automatically made available wherever it is needed.

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Green Music Center Website Debuts

We recently launched a new site for the Green Music Center, a world-class performing hall on the Sonoma State campus that has been more than a decade in development.

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