Our Recent Web Design Clients

The Kaplan Corporation, one of Boston's most respected construction management companies, needed a website to reflect their professionalism and showcase their numerous multi-million dollar projects.

Working with our designer, they chose to go with a minimalist approach, putting primary emphasis on photos from their project portfolio.

The company president offered many sincere compliments: "Kathleen was incredibly patient and flexible, and very easy to work with."

The Midwest's premier fundraising organization needed a website that reflected the high quality of their company and made them easy to find on the search engines.

Collaborating on the design and using their content, we created a website that expresses their professionalism and showcases the numerous organizations they have helped.

They report getting more contacts and more business thanks to their professional site and high rankings on google for their keywords.

This Western Michigan University department needed a more professional and attractive website which also conformed to the WMU standard formatting. We quickly created a new masthead and menu system, then placed their content into it. Another Kallen Web site on time and on budget!

Note that Student Interns have modified the site since it was completed. The link and image to the left will take you to a recreation of our original site.

This multi-state flooring retail business needed a site to reflect the high quality of the products they sell. Their existing site was poorly done.

We worked with a prominent advertising agency to determine what kind of image they would optimally want to project.

Their demographic is women in their 40s+, and the colors and layout are designed to appeal to this group. The result is a site that draws much new business to their 20 stores in three states.

A prominent Southwest Michigan Realtor wanted a web site to give her prime listings more exposure.

We consulted with her to determine what style and themes best reflected her business and created a site to reflect her personality and preferences.

Within a matter of a few weeks from start to finish, the site was bringing in new clients and new business!

This landscaping company knew that most people under 30 search on the internet for services before they ever pick up a yellow pages.

This site is search engine optimized so that people looking for lawn services will quickly find the company and then be impressed by the variety and quality of services they offer.

They report more contacts and more business thanks to their professional website with its excellent google ranking for their keywords!

The owners of several new student rental properties wanted to provide all the information students would need to rent an apartment. They also wanted a site that reflected the high quality of their properties.

Working with their photos and text, we created a site that provided visitors all the needed information and had a fun look to it as well.

Within a few weeks of going live with this site, all their properties were fully rented!

The owners of this site had purchased a web site package from another design company but the end result lacked the polished look needed to represent the highly artistic qualities of their product.

After one week of working together we delivered a redesign that reflects the artistic beauty of their unique merchandise.

This company had a home-grown web site that did not reflect the quality of their services.

We offered several masthead options and color schemes. They chose the one that was the most appealing to them. We also created a photo gallery that displays their amazing work.

Now they report getting more contacts and more business thanks to their great website!

This resort owner had an out-of-date web site.

Working with their photos and tastes, we put together a great masthead and color scheme.

In only a few weeks time, their web presence went from embarrassing to fantastic!

Kalamazoo's longest established Home Health Care Agency needed a website that illustrated their professionalism and explained the variety of services they offer, driving potential clients to pick up the phone and call for more information.

Using their color scheme, logos and content, and our creativity and web knowledge, we created a fantastic website.

Total time from receiving their words and pictures to the completed site was about 10 days.

This internationally recognized author desired a web site to showcase his books and articles, and so colleagues looking for him on the web could find his contact information.

He desired a very straightforward, professional site without unnecessary graphics. He supplied the content (text) and we did the rest. It is now a top hit on the search engines for his keywords!

This university department needed an updated site that demonstrates a strong embracing of the religions of the world. After meeting with a group of five representatives from the department, we integrated their ideas into this design. We used some of their graphics and found many others to add to their theme.

We also set up an Amazon.com affiliate account and a special page listing the books available from each department member. This way the department receives extra revenue when one of the department's books are purchased.

This client owns a high-end vacation property rental business in Michigan. They felt their homegrown site needed a more professional look, and approached us for assistance. The client supplied the photographs and text for the site, then we developed a professional yet fun design to highlight each property.

Every property page contains a slide show so potential customers can see many photos of each cottage. There is also a link to a "specials" page, which they regularly update without any assistance.

This prominent local Dentist needed a cheerful site to market his services to the local university students.

Students (and most people under 30) normally search Google before ever picking up the yellow pages.

This site encourages visitors to pick up the phone to make an appointment. He receives more contacts and more business because of his terrific website which is very highly ranked on google.

A relative published a book and wanted a site to draw extra publicity to it. With the creative use of keywords behind the scenes, he gets hundreds of hits a week from people searching for funny stories.

The site then leads them to amazon.com where they can purchase his book. Note that we also used his photos and text to create the book cover for publication.

Our head designer also directs a program at Western Michigan University. The program needed a way to communicate to prospective and existing students and faculty.

This educational site contains an easily updated calendar, downloadable forms, a photo and video gallery, podcasts, and other helpful "content".

The site saves the program director from having to answer many repetitive phone calls, because the most requested information is available 24/7 online!

The design objective for this employee recognition program at Western Michigan University was to create a look and feel that was fun and professional.

We created animated buttons and incorporated a variation of the WMU logo. The site is crisp and clean and easy to navigate.

We incorporated their logo and color scheme, then finished the site by adding a simple but compelling Flash banner.

This manufacturer had a poor quality website that did not reflect the quality of their product or their professionalism.

Working entirely via phone and email, we passed design options by them and they chose the one that reflected their company persona best. Using their content (logo, words and photos), we created a site which demonstrates their quality and is easy to navigate.

We also modified a demo video they had, resizing it for viewing by customers with either slow or fast internet, and made it available on their site.

This independent professional needed a site to advertise her services and showcase her various writings. Total time from start to going live on the web was about two weeks.

The site has excellent search engine placement (as do all of our sites), and we also include a free hit tracker so our clients can tell how visitors find their site.

She reports getting numerous inquiries every week from clients who find her through Google, Yahoo and MSN search.

We collected this Western Michigan University organization's existing materials (brochures, logos, posters, PowerPoint presentation), sketched out a site structure and discussed the owner's goals and target audience.

We created a masthead based on the agency's theme of reconciliation.

Another very satisfied Kallen Web Design customer!

This client needed a professional web site to refer their clients to for forms, coverage information, and the pricing of their services.

Instead of using office resources to send faxes and answer basic questions, they can now refer their customer inquiries right to their web site - saving them time and money!

The Eastern Michigan branch of a pre-marriage counseling organization wanted a website that reflected the beauty of marriage, and utilized their themes and logo. This site received many accolades for its beauty and message.

Later, due to changes in their organization, the website was eliminated. The link and image to the left will take you to a recreation of our original site.

A church in St. Charles, IL, needed a web site that looked contemporary. Their previous site was text-dense and had all content on one long scrolling page, making it difficult to find information.

Like many Kallen Web Design sites, this site is designed so that our client can do updates themselves.

This site is one of the first sites Kathleen completed early into her post-graduate certification in communications from the Advanced Technology Center for New Media.

The yarn company has long since taken over the maintenance of this site and made many changes. This is merely an archive.

We keep it in our portfolio even though it does not reflect our current level of work, because of its simple text masthead, colorful, clean graphics and its emphasis on the class schedule, address and store hours. And it brings back happy memories.

A quality masthead sets your site apart from the competition. Please click here to see examples of the mastheads we have produced for our customers' web sites.