the facts:
At Richmond Media, we specialize in branded business websites, with an emphasis on content management, social media and search engine optimization. We blend web presence with other digital media for brand cohesion. We are also experts at rebuilding older sites.
We have been creating websites for all kinds of businesses for over 15 years All websites are not the same and we’ve learned a lot about sites for different kinds of business. We’ll help in every aspect of your project. We’re affordable, we build custom content management sites, various e-commerce systems and more. Our sites are all responsive and include a fully functional mobile version.
We were honored to have the opportunity to design a new website for the Carl Brashear Foundation. Carl Brashear was the subject of “Man Of Honor”, a major motion picture starring Cuba Gooding playing Brashear as a U.S. Navy Master Diver, rising to the position in 1970 having an amputated left leg. The film Men of Honor was based on his life.
The site includes upcoming events, videos, resources and a donation portal.
Lindley Hiring Solutions is a boutique recruiting firm located in North Carolina. We set up the website so the client, Renee Lindley, could maintain everything herself. Job descriptions and an application form are right on the Home page.
The site also features pages for employers, tips for job applicants, a page about Renee’s history anda list of [positions filled on every page.
The Alamance County Human Resources Association (ACHRA) is a North Carolina HR organization that had a small place in the website of a state spo0nsored group.. We built a new site and moved it to its own domain. We also set up dual purpose event payment e-commerce, with members getting different prices than guests.
Legacy Clinical & Consulting Services is a new counseling/advocacy group in Hopewell, Virginia. We worked with them to develop a website that provides information about the practice and the other things they do. We designed their logo and set up the branding for their business.
Included are referral and Contact forms, in addition to a large location map on every page.
Norfolk Southern Railroad gave us the opportunity to rebuild their popular Company Store, where people buy branded items, memorabilia and other railroad themed products. We built the website to look similar to their company website, configured a new e-commerce system and uploaded all of their products.
E-commerce features include sale pricing, product search, user friendly checkout and pricing by apparel size.
The Compass Real Estate website uses a full version of iHomefinder, a system that parses the MLS database to allow for extensive search functions, advanced search capabilities, property slideshows, valuations requests and more.
The site also offers home buying seminars, resources for buyers and sellers and other features.
Ironbridge Sports Park is one of the largest sports parks in the Richmond, VA area. We built them a website big enough to show off their property. A large Home page slider with Ken Burns effect, pages for each attraction with large tiled Galleries, forms for special events, a park map, and an embedded location map are just a few of this website’s many features.
Our talented partners at Duke Communications asked us to redesign the Virginia School of Hair Design’s website. We gave them a thoroughly modern look with a Ken Burns effect slider and page wide Home page content. We also updated their site content and added a large embedded location map, a contact form and a mobile friendly site.
Pure HD is an Atlanta based company that provides high-definition television and streaming experience to the travel industry. This website was designed to the client’s specifications, and includes their services and products the way the client wanted them shown. The site is also maintained by the client.
Dolan Properties is a central Virginia company with many rental apartment properties. Not only did we set up pages for those properties, we also set up an e-commerce system to allow renters to pay their rent online. Even cooler was their online rental application, which not only has a digital signature field, upon clicking Submit, it sends the user to PayPal to pay the application fee.
Ocean Psychiatric is a Virginia Beach, VA based psychiatric practice. This small website has an embedded TC ad on the Home page, a list of providers and their bios, an embedded Google Map with door to door driving directions to the practice and a Contact page. We also took a very old, corrupted version of their logo and cleaned it up.
We built a budget website for H.O.P.E. Counseling and Consultation Services. The site itself is simple, in order to make site visitors focus upon the site content.
In addition to a large embedded location map with door to door driving instructions, the site has four separate forms for potential clients, prospective employees and referral candidates to submit.
Roomers is a delightfully quirky interior design shop in Henrico, Virginia. We created a very colorful theme to highlight the look of their store. The Home and Products pages are image based instead of text based, so clients can easily navigate their selection of product categories.
Eight product category pages are a blend of text, images and image galleries.
Moore Sign Corporation is a large commercial sign company in Chester, VA. The site includes many high resolution galleries of their work, custom head tag graphics to give the products an individualized look, and a gallery of their Potomac Mills sign, at the time, the largest flexible face sign in the world.
El Patron Cantina returned as a Richmond Media client, and we created something different for them. Their Home page is a series of animated sliders that scale into place with a “Ken Burns” effect, linking to the most important pages on the site. Features include a tabbed menu page, an embedded Google Map with door to door driving directions, a tiled Gallery page and a Newsletter signup link. The website uses custom fonts throughout, and links to their social media.
Total Image Solutions had an important industry convention coming up, and they needed a professional website ASAP. We used their existing media and worked with them to develop website content on a tight deadline, going through several logo changes and lots of last minute edits. We brought the site live with three days to spare, and they client was able to showcase their business in a professional manner.
A budget WordPress rebuild of an auditing company website we originally created a few years ago. They wanted a mobile friendly site and we delivered.
We had to resurrect it from its original version, requiring a complete code makeover. With so much text on the site, we kept the design as utilitarian as possible.
Heather Moorefield’s Williamsburg Real Estate Sales website is a budget effort compared to the toehr real estate sites shown here. It doesn’t include iHomefinder, instead relying upon local MLS data. Still, the site includes community listings, buyers and Sellers pages, along with everything else you would expect from a local real estate agent’s website.
WC Builders is a Class A licensed residential and commercial general contracting company with over 16 years of experience in new construction, remodeling and cost effective home improvement. This budget website features a Services page, a Gallery of their work and a Contact page.
Madel Enterprises is a Richmond area technology company. We stepped out of the box with a unique look for their design.
We were able to do this because their site content was miles and miles of text, rather than a lot of images to design around. We used the “fading away” background design to add a strong visual element to the volume of text.
Pinery Water Management is a Colorado based water company serving a large port of the state. We took the content from their old site, updated it, and put a website together that can be easily accessed by their customers.
We streamlined their navigation and split the pages into more relevant groups for ease of use.
Branch Fields is a renowned opera singer, who also appears in plays, musicals and television. We set up a budget site that includes a tiled gallery, videos, audio files, his schedule and a page for reviews of his work.
Since we didn’t need to worry about search engines we were able to take some artistic liberties with the Home page.
Another collaboration in our partnership with IIr Associates Inc, The Dinwiddie County Water Authority (DCWA) is a water management company in central Virginia. We updated their very old website to a modern WordPress build, with lots of PDF content, FAQs, location map, links to water bill payments and much more.
First United Methodist Church of Hampton, VA has a large congregation with many needs, and a large website. We created a new WordPress content management system and upgraded all images and other media. we also updated all of the text content to fit the modern design and the mobile version of the site.
A budget website for a psychiatric practice. This WordPress site includes About Us, Providers, Location and Contact pages. We found that Google Maps had an error in the location of one of the practices, and we found a way around it by using longitude and latitude values instead of the actual address.
Neptuna Fishing Charters is a Key West charter service that lost control of their own old WordPress website. We were able to create a completely rebuilt site without the benefit of hosting or FTP logins.
The site features a page about local fish, an online booking form, and ages about the charter and the boat.
The Casselton Program is dedicated to treatment of alcohol and substance abuse by providing outpatient services to adults and older adolescents.
We gave them a budget website that works for both of their office locations, describes the various programs, and encourages potential clients to contact them with questions..
Explore Hilton Village Is both a historical resource and a business directory for the Hilton Village area in Newport News, VA. Features include full screen galleries of rare photographs of the construction of Hilton Village, articles about the area and an extensive, searchable database of local businesses.
Endless Resorts is a companion site to GoodBuy Vacations as they transition to a travel agency with multiple services. The older timeshare content remains, but isn’t featured as much as the newer services they offer.
We use the same strategy of request forms that we used on the GoodBuy Vacations website.
Terry Dentistry is a budget site for a South Chesterfield County dentistry practice. Featuring embedded video, information about dental care, practice info and a short Appointment form, the website also has a header slideshow.
Like all of our websites, automatic backups and extra security is included.