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Clearstory Studios' websites are known for their excellence in graphic design, clarity and consistency of image, and ease of navigation. Because of our background in the arts and communication management, our websites have high aesthetic appeal and a "clean" look. Our skills with the arrangement of information will allow your website's audience to gather the information and message you wish to communicate without being distracted by unnecessary special effects or inelegantly rendered composition and images.
Our websites also score in the highest rankings in their category with search engines and indexes due to our expertise in the use of meta-tags and our great attention to detail in all technical areas of our website work.
Our services range from design consultation, meta-tag authoring and website make-overs, to total website design, implementation and maintenance. We think you'll find our rates extremely competitive and flexible, our end product extremely professional, and would be glad to assist you in any web-related endeavors you may be considering.
Please feel free to browse through some examples of the websites we have created or assisted in development:
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 A very extensive and comprehensive website, continually under development, encompassing the subjects of the creative arts and the healing practices, and their relationship to each other. This is our own personal domain, and is the host for an increasing number of related sub-sites in these fields. This non-commercial and unadvertised website has received over 2 million visitors since 1998.
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 A limited budget make-over of a website for the artists of fine hand-crafted original gold and sterling silver jewelry. Complete change in background, typestyles, addition of graphic image titles, reorganization of navigation frames, addition of text, meta-tag creation, etc.
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 A medical/scientific and public interchange commissioned by the Kings Point Richmond Foundation and the Dorrance Family Foundation and now in affiliation with the University of Arizona's Program in Integrative Medicine. This website demanded simple design, user-friendly interface, quick access to large extremely large amounts of information via cross-referenced hypertext links and image-oriented navigation aids. This site receives 40,000+ visitors per month, is linked to from over 1,000 other sites and ranks as #1 with major search engines for autism treatments and other notable queries in the field.
+ 3700 archived interactive-forum inquiries and responses
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 Commissioned by the Traumatic Incident Reduction Association, this website was developed as a sister-site to their own to be more user-friendly, more graphically oriented, easier in navigation and - primarily - to give the user quick access to the products and services the association offered and a means of tracking inquiries. A clickable map was added to automatically locate workshop dates and registration at various locations around the world.
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 Developed as a personal website for Dr. Lewis Mehl-Madrona, Coordinator for Integrative Psychiatry and System Medicine for the Program in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona's College of Medicine in Tucson, and author of the well-known books on Native American Healing and Integrative Medicine, Coyote Medicine and Coyote Healing. This website required both a unique, bold and impactful look while still maintaning a professional appearance. The ability to communicate his practice, philosophy and special events to the public, as well as the need to make his scientific papers and curriculum vita available to the medical community, necessitated a consistent look that was easy to make additions to and update.
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 The chief requisite for the creation of this website for a natural products and pharmacy was increased exposure. Consulted on overall look of site, navigation concepts and meta-tags.
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 This website, still in progress, is being developed for a woodturning artist who is seeking national exposure and an increase in sales for his unique creations. This is one of the more technically challenging sites we have done, involving constant product updates and the creation and addition of literally hundreds of very high-quality art images for which we also shot and scanned the original photographs. A state-of-the-art on-line order and inquiry form was also added to promote sales and special commissions.
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 Options For Elder Care is a private geriatric care management firm, owned and operated by Barbara (Bobbi) Kolonay, serving Pittsburgh, Allegheny County and the surrounding area in Western Pennsylvania. Bobbi offers a wide variety of services and coordination of care with other providers in the fields of geriatric medicine, financial planning, elder law, insurance, and both home and long-term health care.
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 Spider is a teacher of Earth connection following the Taino tradition of the Caney Indian Spiritual Circle and the Wisdom Wheel teachings of the Seneca Wolf Clan Teaching Lodge. This website was created from the heart, gratis, to honor the Earth Mother and all teachers of Native American traditions and in respect for all those healers who are embodied by Spider's teachings, stories and respectful practice of ceremony. Spider is the author of numerous books, including Songs of Bleeding.
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TIR, or Traumatic Incident Reduction, is a unique regressive, repetitive, desensitization procedure - highly focused, directive, and controlled, yet at the same time wholly person-centered, non-interpretive, and non-judgmental. Developed by Frank A. Gerbode, M.D., Gerald French, and others, TIR is best known for its use as an extremely effective tool in the rapid resolution of virtually all trauma-related conditions, including PTSD.
This site in progress is being developed to promote the International training of mental health professionals and lay practitioners and to provide comprehensive information about the nature of trauma-related sequelae and the uniquesness of this therapeutic technique in alleviating the often debilitating consequences of traumatic events.
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This relatively small website was created for a family member in order to better promote the visibility of a parcel of real estate for sale in Northern Idaho. The land for sale had previously been listed with an on-line real estate website which over several years had produced very few leads. The main challenge here was not only to present a better visual and textual representation of the land, but to have it rank as high as possible with the major search engines in a very competitive field.
The search engine optimization for this website was achieved through diligent editorial services in constructing the content of the website, innovative keyword and description meta-tags authoring, and a resourceful creation of high-ranking links - developed through research, aggressive marketing of the land-owner's contacts, and extensive cross-referencing with the hosting website's already existing database.
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Sandra Brown - a nationally acclaimed rug hooking artist and teacher - needed a totally redesigned and significantly expanded website on very short notice, due to an in-press article in a major trade magazine that would link to her url. This website was created in record time and with great cooperation between the artist and the web-designer - both who are perfectionists of precise detail as well as of very subtle aesthetics.
This website make-over included creating unique individual logos for each page - based on images of the artist's works - that were thematically consistent in design yet different enough from each other so that they conveyed the full range and scope of the artist's repertoire. Among many other accomplishments achieved during this redesign, we managed to also create a new domain name - and redirect traffic to such - so that search engine optimization for this site could proceed quickly, and bring in a large increase in visitors.
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Clearstory Studios can exhibit your artwork on-line in a virtual gallery, complete with thumbnails, biographical background, descriptive text and links to connect your potential customers with you. This service to fine artists and crafts persons is a cost-effective way for you to promote your artwork in lieu of having to pay the costs of creating and maintaining your own website.
In partnership with Pheonix Specialties Studio, we can scan slides, prints or negatives of you artwork and maintain a complete digital portfolio for you. With this service, you can add, delete, or change the images in your own on-line gallery with ease.
Please feel free to visit some of the artists' galleries on this site, which will be linked from many of our other pages. With the established and growing number of visitors to our domain, an on-line gallery offers a greatly increased exposure to your target audience.
If it is in any way related to the the themes of art or healing, we will also be glad to host your website on our well-visited domain. Our rates for web-hosting services are significantly less than those of most commercial servers, and unlike all of the seemingly "free" website space that some domains offer, you will never see any advertising, banners, pop-up windows or other distracting or annoying special effects and gimmicks on any of our pages.
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[Postcards & Brochures] [Digital Portfolios & Flyers] [Artist Galleries]Please feel free to contact us if you can use any of our services or if you have any questions. We look forward to working with you!
- Peter Shefler
Gibsonia, Pennsylvania
Phone: 724-443-6687
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