Featured Client Work
Accion
Accion International is one of the largest global non-profits to tackle the challenge of providing small third-world entrepreneurs with micro loans and financial support. We worked with Accion to create an intranet that would become the center of these global activities for dozens of offices and hundreds of field workers.
Art Catchr
This was an ideal project to work with a team of developers that needed a complete UI for their new art community site. The project was essentially the design and coding of a brand new user interface that could be dropped onto the client's application and database layers.
Benchfly
This unique community blends the seriousness of scientific protocols with the fun social networking tools. Benchfly's approach to sharing basic and breakthrough protocol information via video will bring together thousands of scientists from all over the world. Using our web prototyping methodologies we were able to fast track this project and get the client ahead of their development goals.
Bobby's Best
Choice is important but it can also be overwhelming in today's complex consumer good market. Working with maven Bobby Glazer we have developed a sophisticated product review site that caters to almost everyone's shopping needs. We worked with the client to create and deliver this website on an accelerated schedule to be ready for the busy shopping season. From concept to delivery in two weeks - not bad!
Boston Search Group
Fresh Tilled Soil was referred to Boston Search Group when they decided it was time to give their website a new look and feel. We worked on location with them over the course of one day to redesign the site and review the content.
Boston University’s Center for Design and Imaging Arts
Working with creative genius of the respected designer Jonathan Sachs we have been asked to redevelop the CDIA’s website in preparation for the 2006/2007 class intake. This is a project made in heaven for us. We get to work on a design school’s website to attract and encourage a new generation of designers while pushing our own knowledge of XHTML and CSS to another level.
Building Engines
This building facilities management system company needed a site that demonstrated the power of their products and services while bringing a clear positioning message to their audience. A full redesign of the website with a follow up of search engine marketing achieved these objectives for Building Engines.
Creative Contact
We loved working on this project. As designers and artists it was very close to our hearts. The massive scope of this collaboration application was daunting at first but we quickly got a handle on it by subjecting the design process to our rapid design and development prototyping process. The prototype has successfully been used to deliver the application in less than half the time the developers estimated.
Cwerty
Cwerty has brought the world’s best CEO’s and business leaders into your living room with their state of the art broadcast quality interviews. These videos will form part of a multi publication deal with several high profile entrepreneurs, professors and executives in partnership with Harvard Business School Press.
Daily Jolt
Our ongoing relationship with this high profile student portal has allowed us to work on several exciting design, search marketing and strategic marketing projects. Some of the topical projects include www.freshmanchecklist.com, which dominates the search rankings for freshman school supply needs, and Daily Jolt Candidate Profiles
Dataguide
Dataguide is an established leader in the specialty print and online print solutions market. We have teamed-up with them to provide high-level strategic and tactical campaigns that will significantly increase the overall sales of the company. This project also involves the redesign of the website, content development, and the development of several marketing and sales materials. The most important part of this relationship is the development of a long-term referral marketing strategy.
Designer's How To Guide
This site is the definitive guide to starting and running a profitable web design company. The site was a way for us to show designers how to share in the same growth opportunities that other successful web design studios do. This project was started and completed in less than a week (now that's just showing off).
ExpoTV
Expo TV’s videopinion website is visited by thousands of consumers and maven each day. Working closely with the company’s product and design teams we were able to redesign and reprogram every page of their massive site. This redesign brought their HTML and CSS up to full web compliance and standards.
Extension Engine
This project included a website design and content development using our content management tool, FullControl. Extension Engine's CEO, Bob Allard: "Full Control is the kind of tool that allows you to fully achieve the promise of a technology like a website on the Internet. Sure, everyone has a website, but for me (and I'm sure for you, too) it's daunting to think about make changes to it, and expensive, and time-consuming. Full Control should come integrated into every website. It is that good, that useful, that necessary. Thanks, guys!"
Farmington Company
Almost every site we build ends up with a content management system to take the pressure off the client team to make simple changes. This site was the ideal opportunity to install our own CMS called FullControl. This CMS offers comprehensive content management functionality that can be successfully used without any training at all.
First Marblehead
The country’s leading originator of student loans has engaged Fresh Tilled Soil to provide them with web marketing and web design services to grow their audience and improve their web properties across several markets.
Free 411 (Jingle Networks)
This ground breaking new information service needed a series of rapid prototypes designed for their account management user interfaces. We developed a collection of linked web pages that worked as if they were actually the real thing. Once this step was complete we worked with their team to integrate the xHTML/CSS pages into their application layer.
Free Green
To really shake up a market you have to be willing to work hard and fast. FreeGreen's team approached us with a very challenging deadline for their new site. Our designers were able to come up with a brand new design and code it in less than three weeks. This allowed FreeGreen to launch and get the publicity they were looking for.
GE Healthcare
Redesigned the high level UI pages and functions for GE Healthcare’s Centricity Patient Online Application. FTS was asked to use their Rapid Prototyping design process to execute a time sensitive redesign of the high level UI pages and functions for GE Healthcare’s Centricity Patient Online Application.
Get Solar
FTS delivered a comprehensive, data-driven directory solution where merchants can add and upgrade their profiles; manage testimonials and their photo gallery. Solar shoppers search by State or Zip code to find qualified professionals in their neighborhood as well as learn about solar trends and the future of this exciting industry.
GiftZinger
Did you get what you wanted for your last birthday? Chances are you didn't. Enter GiftZinger, the web application that allows you to give the ideal gift by letting the recipient of the gift decide what they want to get from you. Fresh Tilled Soil lead the design of a prototype using the Rapid Prototype methodology and eventually build out the entire application.
GotVMail
Working on both the public website and the customer web application user interface, our team worked with GotVMail’s marketing and technical teams to update the site’s design. The outdated design was brought back to life through the development efforts of several design experts. Fresh Tilled Soil was also asked to run Usability Workshops with both current and prospective GotVMail customers to establish the ideal UI for the company’s web application – mygotvmail.com.
Harvard PREMUS
The Harvard School of Public Health required a simple but robust content management system to allow PREMUS Conference Presenters and Participants to sign up to participate, schedule their presentation slot, invite others and submit their abstracts. This required the design of a set of dashboard tools that improved work flow and simplified complex admin tasks.
Harvard Vanguard Health Care
Harvard Vanguard worked with our search engine marketing experts to create a detailed audit of their diverse and comprehensive web properties. This audit included dozens of pages of suggestions and changes that will allow Harvard Vanguard to move ahead in the search rankings and provide a much more visible presence on the web for their corporate and local branches.
HeartScreen America
Saving lives is what HeartScreen set out to do with their ambitious plan to provide heart screening for children and parents across America. Fresh Tilled Soil was contracted to develop an integrated application that will allow data gathered in the field to be uploaded and reviewed by a distributed group of cardiologists. This massive project has already been a success in the field and is set to expand beyond the ambitions of all involved.
InvitingHome
InvitingHome approached us to work with them on their search marketing campaign. This was perfect case study to show how a niche line of products can quickly dominate the market. With keywords such as "carved wood details," "corbels" and "wood brackets" InvitingHome was able to get to the first positions on the search engine results pages.
JLICA
The JLICA approached us to create a destination for their work and discussions around HIV/AIDS across several partner organizations. The Joint Learning Initiative on Children and HIV/AIDS (JLICA) website is the primary tool to engage practitioners, policymakers, and scholars in collaborative problem-solving, research, and analysis to address the needs of children living in the context of HIV/AIDS.
JourneyPage
The entrepreneurial energy of Michael Simmons was captured here in this motivational and organizational site. The objective was to take the existing platform and provide it with a fresh look that was easy to use and exciting to participate in. Those objectives have clearly been met with this dynamic and modern design.
Judy's Book
Judy's Book is a brilliant, new venture based in Seattle that inspires mavens and community-oriented web users to rate their favorite local establishments and services. Their innovative approach to marketing their website involved the development of several websites rooted in singular topics on their existing site and designed with new content, design and interactive options. Fresh Tilled Soil is proud to be currently developing two of these websites.
Lawline.com
After several years of working through a third-party service provider, lawline.com was ready to take the reigns and manage their website from top to bottom. They approached us with a simple request, “Put us back in charge of our website and our business”. The redesigned site now has its own content management system giving the owners and administrators full control of their content and reports. Lawline.com is the leading broadcaster of law related programming on the Internet. The website offers a large and comprehensive selection of law-related programming, combining audio and video webcasting with downloadable textual materials.
Magic Beans
Magic Beans, one of Boston's finest Toy and Baby Gear boutiques, was looking for a way to improve their electronic newsletter while incorporating an evolving sense of community thriving in their physical store. After a few consultations, Fresh Tilled Soil was delighted to learn that their approach to marketing was surprisingly 'fresh.' We began developing an electronic newsletter template that provided consistency with the high level of design found throughout their web site and have launched the first issue of their new e-Newsletter, BeansTalk.
MIT 100K
MIT 2006 Organizational Committee Leader, Trond Weullner, and 2007 Leader Jeff Sabados worked closely with Fresh Tilled Soil to redesign the entire site, calendar system, registration wizard and secure account pages. FTS has recently launched this new design and is currently developing an extensive Content Management System to help Sabados’ team administer changes throughout many sections of the site independently.
Mix and Meet
Combining the talents of Fresh Tilled Soil and his internal development team, Bruce Franco has designed the next generation of social networking websites. The Mix & Meet team used Fresh Tilled Soil’s Rapid Prototyping methodology to fast track the design of the entire website and receive development-ready xHTML and CSS files from us.
Newpro
Newpro is a leader in replacement windows in the Northeast region. Using our search engine marketing and a web design services their goal was to position themselves as the number one choice for consumers for replacement windows. Their site, which was not even being indexed before, is now competing for the top spots in the major search engines.
PawSpot
This innovative social networking site for pet owners brings the designs of SimpleBit’s Dan Cederholm together with Fresh Tilled Soil’s usability experts. A match made in heaven if we say so ourselves. Our team worked closely with the PawSpot founders to develop an interface that would excite and entertain their visitors without overwhelming them with unnecessary features and content.
Proctorcam
If you've ever had to take a correspondence or remote exam you'll know that the biggest challenge is to get the proctor to successfully administer the exam. Proctorcam solves this challenge and does it with style. This distinctively Web 2.0 idea and design gives the client an advantage over current options.
RatePoint
When we were approached to redesign the RatePoint business directory, search and business profile pages and merchant badge elements, the RatePoint site needed a fresh Web 2.0 style design and improved usability for consumers and merchants. Our revised design presented a cleaner, friendlier design which allowed the incorporation of multiple categories of data. Action-oriented items weaved throughout designs to encourage user participation and provide contextual help. This design speeds up the users experience and ensures a more accurate sharing of information.
Renting Your Home
RentingYourHome.com is a web based solution that serves individual landlords in 35 states across the country and is expanding to the rest of the country. The site provides work-flow management and online payment systems to make managing rental properties easier and more profitable.
Supporting Strategies
Supporting Strategies came to us with a relatively unique problem. They had already envisioned what they wanted their website to look like and they knew how they wanted it to work - in fact, they even had the layered Photoshop files for it! As it turns out, another firm had designed the comps for the site but couldn't accommodate the timeline that Supporting Strategies required to launch their site. Within 1 business day, Fresh Tilled Soil was able to build directly to their live server, develop the site thoroughly and perform a QA on the final product. In their words, our response was "unheard of."
The Orchid List
Bringing order to the chaotic interior design world of web listings, The Orchid List creates a complete directory of all the best interior design companies in all major cities in the US. Chris Merril, the directory’s founder approached FTS to drive traffic to the site using our search engine marketing services.
Thing Magic
The leaders in RFID scanners, ThingMagic needed a website and a search marketing campaign that would solidify their leadership in this industry. By combining the new website with a comprehensive SEO strategy, ThingMagic was able to rise quickly up the search rankings and achieve the business objectives.
TrueNYC
This was a great project to work on. As entrepreneurs we loved being involved in such an exciting emerging business. If you are an entrepreneur you need to spend time on TrueNYC. The site provides online education for entrepreneurs in the form of video interviews and web seminars. Instead of high level theory the guests offer true stories & candid advice from their own real world experiences. These are real entrepreneurs battling on the front lines of New York City , Boston, Miami and beyond.
Union Federal Savings Bank
This emerging bank, recently acquired by First Marblehead, is the power behind the student loan markets in several growing markets. Our team has been asked to redesign an aging website to bring it in line with their audience’s expectations. Our Search Engine Marketing team has also been working to establish a strong presence on the search engines and in the social networks when the UFSB client community interacts.
Upscale Living Magazine
Upscale Living Magazine is dedicated to the Epicurean world with its flair for the finer things in life. Their mission is to be your ultimate resource in the upscale world of luxury vehicles, real estate properties, fine dining, wine & spirits, beauty & fashion, interior design, entertainment & travel, and all other trends that caters to your sophisticated lifestyle. Fresh Tilled Soil had the pleasure of redesigning their website.
Zynium
Zynium, a Massachusetts-based company offering Visio integration, needed to integrate a payment processing system within their existing website. Fresh Tilled Soil worked with Zynium to execute this integration.
Featured Article
Value of Social, Business Networks Not Found in Size Alone
Most of us were raised with the notion that it's not what you know but who you know that matters. There are enough exceptions to this rule to reconsider its guidance, but there is some truth in the moral. The meteoric rise of social and business networking tools is testimony to the "who versus what" argument. These web tools thrive on the premise that knowing more people is in some way better than knowing fewer people. If the size of your network does actually matter, are there ways to measure that? Does bigger mean more rewarding relationships, or is it just the price of admission into the status-driven social circles of online networking?
