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Whirlpool Corporation
www.whirlpoolcorp.com
www.whirlpoolcareers.com
Their Business:
Whirlpool Corporation is a leader of the $100 billion global home appliance industry. Their appliances are marketed in nearly every country around the world.
Our Involvement:
TCG’s CMS products have helped Whirlpool Corporation continue to maintain its corporate web presence for a number of years. Whirlpool contracted TCG to build a new CMS product for the corporate site, careers sites, recall site, and Whirlpool’s headquarter sites in Mexico, Italy, India, and Asia. Additionally, TCG works routinely with Whirlpool to provide hosting services and general application support.
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WV Senior Care
West Virginia Healthcare Association
www.wvseniorcare.com
Their Business:
The West Virginia Health Care Association is the largest trade association representing nursing facilities and assisted living communities in West Virginia. They wanted to provide a website that would help not only seniors, but also those in search of care for seniors. The goal of the site is to help families make informed decisions about senior care by providing a "one-stop" resource on the Internet for information about senior care in West Virginia.
Our Involvement:
TCG worked with West Virginia Health Care Association in scoping, designing, and developing the website. Using Kentico CMS, TCG created the website which lists numerous resources for senior services, including searches for in-home care providers for non-medical services, healthcare facilities, pharmacies and medical equipment providers. The information is presented in a simple, easy to understand format. The site also details government programs, such as the Older Americans Act Programs and Legislative Initiative for the Elderly services, and gives helpful checklists to follow when searching for and for hiring in-home service providers, as well as links to various support groups.
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River Expeditions
www.raftinginfo.com
Their Business:
River Expeditions outfits whitewater rafting trips on the New River and the Gauley River in the heart of southern West Virginia's New River Gorge National Park. They offer the area’s finest adventures and amenities hosted by outstanding people. Endless attention to detail, diverse offerings and the value of our white water rafting trips distinguish River Expeditions from other outfitters.
River Expeditions is the new home of Rivers Resort, Extreme Expeditions, USA Raft and Appalachian Wildwaters. Combining the best elements of each company, they have served their guests well since 1972, with over 70 years of combined outfitting experience.
Our Involvement:
TCG designed and developed the website utilizing Kentico CMS to provide River Expeditions total control over their site. A key component of the site is the ability for River Expeditions to book reservations and sell merchandise on-line via an e-commerce feature. Pre-launch traffic on their old website was down almost 30% from the prior year. Post-launch traffic is up 4% overall from the prior year and reservations requests are up 48%!
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Girl Scouts of Black Diamond Council
www.bdgsc.org
Their Business:
Girl Scouts of Black Diamond Council serves nearly 20,000 girls each year in 61 counties in West Virginia, Ohio, Virginia and Maryland. The council has 13 regional offices for the convenience of volunteers and Girl Scout members. They wanted to provide a website that would not only be interactive with the youth, but be utilized by the adult leaders. The website is a primary source of information for the Council, as well as an active e-commerce site for items ranging from supplies to wearing apparel.
Our Involvement:
The Girl Scouts of Black Diamond Council original website was developed by TCG using our dated, proprietary CMS. The challenge was to re-design and re-develop the website into a new Kentico CMS platform. Once the new design was agreed upon, TCG developed a highly structured back-end to site which includes a custom event, custom announcements and custom e-commerce modules. The new Kentico CMS has made updates and changes to the website by the client easier and more efficient which has resulted in more utilization of the site than ever before.
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Midland Trail National Scenic Highway
Their Business:
Midland Trail National Scenic Byway is the road of choice for those who want to leave the interstate behind and see the Best of West Virginia as Route 60 winds the 180-miles across WV’s midsection offering a drive filled with fabulous vistas, world-class rafting, outdoor fun, art and artisan treasures & pioneer history.
Our Involvement:
TCG was challenged to re-design and re-develop Midland Trail’s website into a new Kentico CMS platform. The new designed was to maintain elements of the old site, such a featured Mile Makers, while incorporating the latest in website design features such as social media and mobile optimization. With use of Kentico CMS, the website easily provided functionality for the integration of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and flickr. In addition, TCG developed a mobile interface with optimizes the site when viewed on a mobile devise. The new site is cleaner, easier to manage, and has received high praise from all whom has visited.
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WV Commerce
West Virginia Dept. of Commerce
www.wvcommerce.org
TCG constructed one Multi-site Content Management System to maintain the West Virginia's Department of Commerce's nine separate division web sites; all wrapped up in one neat package. The site includes a main portal, separate home pages for each agency, audience-targeted landing pages, content pages, an approval dashboard, and more.
Since all nine divisions target unique and wide-ranging audiences, the project presented a challenge to provide a uniform but separate design scheme for each section. TCG has developed a design scheme with a consistent global navigation for the entire system, paired with individual navigation structures for each division. Additionally, colors and fonts are used to help define what part of the Web site a user is visiting.
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West Virginia Power: Chuck's World
www.wvpowerchuck.com
Their Business:
The West Virginia Power is a Minor League Baseball Class A Affiliate of the Pittsburgh Pirates. The WV Power decided to use their mascot, Chuck, to promote healthy lifestyles for the area's youth. Chuck's web site is a place where kids and parents alike can come for educational information, WV Power game info, book a party with Chuck or simply have fun.
Our Involvement:
TCG worked hand-in-hand with the WV Power in the design and development of Chuck's web site to ensure that it had the right look and feel to appeal to its target audience - kids! |
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