Whether we are designing a website from scratch, integrating social media and ecommerce, or developing a mobile app for the iPhone, our team is eager to realize your digital dreams. Let’s build something together!
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Realizing the LIMITLESS WEB
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“The depth of the drop is the height of the moon.
Each reflection, however long or short its duration, manifests the vastness of the dewdrop,
and realizes the limitlessness of the moonlight in the sky.”“The Genjo Koan”
by Eihei Dogen
(1200 - 1253)Who We Are
Dewdrop Media provides interactive media services near and far to meet our customer’s unique needs in a cost-conscious manner. From comprehensive websites to micro sites to mobile apps and more, we work tirelessly to give our customers a personal experience and unparalleled results.
We have been working with digital media since 1992, successfully delivering results in a constantly evolving field. With time, we have developed a dynamic creative network, enabling us to scale our capabilities, as needed, by tapping into our experience and talents to get the job done.
Why we do what we do
We care about communication: the mode, the media, and the message...every aspect of it. We’re excited by the latest in communication technologies: a field that is changing at unprecedented speed. And at the root, we care about community: taking care of ourselves, our families, our neighborhoods, thereby bringing us closer together through these communication technologies. We make it easier to find what you are looking for, to do what you need to do, to connect with each other. In everything we do, big and small, our values shine through: quality, relevance, community, appropriate response; that is our commitment.
Timothy O'Connor Fraser
Owner / Senior Developer
Tim has been working with companies for over 15 years to solve their web development needs. Some of his most prominent work is for the US government, but he enjoys building from-scratch websites of all shapes and sizes. Tim has a broad range of skills in programming and media production. He continues to maintain many of the sites he builds and is available for service requests virtually anytime. Tim earned a BS in Information Systems from Santa Clara University and has been building complex, interactive, data-driven media experiences ever since. Connect with Tim on LinkedIn.
Jamie Holderman
Project Manager / Consultant / Web Developer
Jamie has been designing and building websites for over 10 years. She takes special care to recommend a platform that is best suited to the long term needs of her clients. She prefers to use Squarespace or Wordpress, and is capable of utilizing other CMS options. Her attention-to-detail, communication, and interpersonal skills ensure individualized consultation and reliable administration. Connect with Jamie on LinkedIn.
Regan Eymann
Project Manager / Content Management / Web Developer
Regan has been building and maintaining websites for over 5 years. She has experience building sites in Joomla, Wordpress, Concrete5 and Amend, as well as maintaining sites where no CMS exists. She often helps in moving content into a site, adding any necessary style, links and media, and is available for site updates when a project moves into the post-launch phase. She is very responsive, and has skills working with HTML and CSS, as well as Adobe Creative Suite Tools. Connect with Regan on LinkedIn.
Melinda Miller
Project Manager / Content Services / Office Manager
Melinda loves to keep things organized and on track, so that's what she does for projects and our office. She taps into her years of event planning and small team management to help succesfully deliver projects on-time and on-budget. She's also an awesome chef, so when she's not working on projects, she's testing new recipes or leading classes in healthy, internationally-inspired home cooking. A woman of many talents; and yet she's so very humble.
Our Partners
There is a wonderful exchange taking place between us and our partners. We are a collection of small businesses that work together to expand each other's capabilities as needed. In some cases, we've worked together for decades.
Design
Development
Capabilities
Because we offer many different services to match unique customer needs, we always start with your vision. Our team works from that singular intention, bringing concepts to fruition. We’re prepared to design a project organically, develop and implement content strategy, manage the project and the team through various phases, develop and program media, and, if necessary, we can call upon our partners for additional expertise.
Here are some of the technologies we work with the most:
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Here's a partial list of projects we've worked on recently.
Select a project to enlarge image and read more information.
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myRepHUB
Customizeable mobile app makes one-on-one sales more dynamic/reinforces brand identity.
With the explosive growth of digital media and more powerful tablets like the iPad and Android devices, we have an opportunity to merge rich media experiences with the personal touch of one-on-one conversations. Enter myRepHUB, an iPad/iPhone app tailored to your specific business's presentation needs. myRepHUB puts your entire company's media assets – video, PDFs, images, etc – at your representatives fingertips, giving them a critical, efficient tool to present branded media to meet your sales objectives.
myRepHUB is developed by Dewdrop Media and Zephyr Creative and can be customized for your business.
For a demonstration of myRepHUB or for a link to download it from the Apple App Store, contact us.
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Drucker Institute
Striking, colorful Wordpress redesign
Our design partner DISTINC loves to push the envelope on design, and that's the kind of thing that makes front-end development fun...and challenging. Their new design for the venerable Drucker Institute was full of bold colors, with each section presenting a different combination, while needing to work with an existing Wordpress site. We pulled everything together and made sure it looked great on mobile devices as well.
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Applied Sensor
Sharp, clean website redesign boosts lead generation
This project was very straight forward. Long-time customer Applied Sensor, based in Germany, worked with a local designer to redesign their website and they sent it to us to turn into a Wordpress site. Working across 9 time zones, was the biggest challenge, but our late-night shift merged with the start of their day to make it possible to communicate in real-time during crucial decision points. (It helps that we do this kind of thing all the time) And so we extended the design to various page types, making sure that it worked for mobile devices and was easy to edit themselves. One surprising outcome: lead generation increased significantly with the redesign and reorganization of content.
Approximately six months after this website went live, Applied Sensor was acquired by AMS Sensor Solutions.
20140331
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Novus Modern European Design
A full-featured, ecommerce site for a new, small business
Dewdrop Media was tapped to work with designer Sandra Silva to plan, design and build a new website for a Novus Modern European Design, providing the company with a web presence that would create new opportunities for growth and expansion. The big design challenge: this is a virtual furniture store. How do we get people to buy furniture without seeing it? Our solution was to provide a photo-rich site that begins the selling process, with all roads leading to either the creation of a wishlist (which the sales represenative can see) or directly contacting a representative. This site was built on Wordpress using the WooCommerce plugin.
Visit Novus Modern European Design, featuring Rolf Benz furniture »
20140331
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Codenomicon Webinar Email Blast
Quick-turnaround email template
Some projects come with plenty of time, some need to be done ASAP. Such was the case with Codenomicon's webinar email blast following the work they did to discover and then patch a fundamental flaw in the security of the Intenet and then share their expertise with the world. Reddot Media was the client of record and Dewdrop Media supported by realizing RDM's design into HTML email invitations, easily forwardable and editable by Codenomicon's global sales team.
20140424
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The Seiki Store
A simple, clean ecommerce site for a leader in lowcost TVs
Developed in collaboration with Reddot Media, this site was compliments Seiki's corporate website by providing a clean, easy-to-use web store built on the Shopify platform.
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San Antonio River Foundation
A fluid, calming, non-profit site to support the San Antonio River Area
This site supports the ongoing development and enrichment of the San Antonio River Area, as manifested by the San Antonion River Foundation. It features the eccletic art and natural beauty of the river, while sharing a vision for what is to come. Built on Concrete5 with the Commerce Add-on, this site supports donations, tickets to special events, volunteer signups and more. See See Eye designed the pages and gave us (via Ewert Communications) the opportunity to build it out as the visually stunning, mobile-responsive website you see. Choosing Concrete5 was natural given the freedom in design and ecommerce customization, and powerful, editor-friendly interface. With one hour of training, the Foundation's staff was able to take over editing the site! Check it out and enjoy some views of the San Antonion River!
20130908
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Everyday Zen
CMS modernization, and migration to Concrete5
Everyday Zen Foundation had a problem: their website was built on an old version of Joomla that was no longer being supported and that was being held together by the will of one very talented, yet very volunteer member of the community. They needed to fix this problem and migrate over 1200 teaching records and related media to a new website... and they needed a solution that would make it easy to update going forward. Fortunately, since building their website, CMS's have evolved and Concrete5 offered a much-improved way of managing a site of this type. Workeing together, we moved the site to Concrete5, keeping the familiar structure the same, but positioning the site on a technology with room to grow and evolve.
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Gray Line of
San FranciscoA stunning, easy-to-use, ecommerce site
This site features beautiful images of San Francisco and surrounding sights that draw visitors into the full range of tours Gray Line of San Francisco has to offer. Choose where you want to go, and the customized ecommerce solution offers you additional tour options. Select your dates, see the cost, and you're on your way! Santa Cruz-based Yellow Bus designed the pages and customer experience and gave us the opportunity to flesh it out as the visually stunning, mobile-responsive website you see. We chose to build the site on Concrete5 because of the freedom in design and ecommerce customization, not to mention its powerful, editor-friendly interface. Check out the site and take a tour of San Francisco!
20130610
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LA Stage Times
A cutting edge news site that celebrates the LA Stage scene
SoCal design agency DISTINC threw us a challenge: could we bring their bold, cutting-edge design to life on Wordpress? LA Stage Times already had a signficant Wordpress-based site, and so it made sense to leverage that system and reskin it with something that was really quite different. We took on the challenge! Take a look at the results.
20130422
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Transera Business Intelligence Console micro site
A microsite to focus and feature a specific solution
We developed this micro site for Transera in collaboration with Katie Otis of Design in Mind, a reprise of the team that developed the main Transera web site. The goal was to offer customers an opportunity to demo Transera's cloud-based solution, while also driving leads toward their Marketo-driven marketing system.
Visit the Transera Business Intelligance Console micro site »
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Spotlight Consulting
Clean, minamalist site, responsive-design, powered by Wordpress
We were tapped by designer Dana Elliott of San Francisco to realize this website as a simple, clean, easy-to-navigate site for Spotlight Consulting. With a quick turnaround, we threw in some light responsive design elements so that Craig Garshelis would get the most bang for his web development buck.
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Ewert Communications
Web services in Silicon Valley, built on Concrete5
Ewert Communications has been a long-time business partner (as seen in many of the projects here) and decided that one way to walk the walk and talk the talk was to build a new website on a CMS. Sure, we have the talent and means to maintain a site without the WYSIWYG, and in-line editing features of Concrete5, but it's one thing to recommend a CMS to a customer and it is another thing to build your own site on it. So we did that for the Ewert site, making it mobile responsive and updatable by the Ewert's executive team.
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Book Club of California
A club for beautifully printed books, powered by Wordpress
The Book Club of California sought to upgrade the look, feel and functionality, both front-end and back-end, of their web site. With design by Ingalls Design of San Francisco, we created a beautiful new website, improved the ecommerce functionality and moved their content management to Wordpress.
20120901
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Xtime
A new home page for a cloud-based automotive service CRM company
We’ve been maintaining the Xtime web site for some time, so it was exciting when they tapped us, through our partner Ewert Communications, to redesign their homepage in time for an important trade show. Mike Baxter of Makai Design created a design that leaped from the screen, and we implemented it seamlessly into their existing web site.
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Bad Wolf Press
Small, independent children’s musical company adds a full-featured blog
Years ago, Bad Wolf Press asked us to program a custom catalog for their short musical plays. As time went by, they realized that they needed a blog to offer news and tips for teachers staging performances. To help them save money, we selected a pre-built premium template and customized that template to look like their site. The end result is dynamic Wordpress blog that they are using to promote new plays, share tips and resources and make their site more relevant on social media.
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Yellow Bus
A driven, yet relaxed agency website, responsive to mobile, built on Concrete5
Yellow Bus is one of our newest business partners, and it was a lot of fun to work together on their new web site. The old site just wasn’t effective any more. They wanted a bold new presence; something that would highlight their creative, and something they could easily maintain themselves. We chose Concrete5 because of its designer-friendly architecture and the ease with which users can maintain media-rich content. Their internal team designed the site and provided the content, and with that, we built it.
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San Francisco Zen Center
A long-time client, we help wherever we’re needed
We’ve been a part of developing the San Francisco Zen Center web presence since 2003. We were part of the team that launched the major redesign in 2007, and we’re honored to continue working for this wonderful and important organization.
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Transera
A web site redesign to support a refocused, cloud-based, contact center company
Transera is a high tech, cutting-edge company that needed a website to match. For design, they tapped Katie Otis of Design in Mind, and to develop, they requested the Dewdrop Media team, via our partnership with Ewert Communications. We brought Katie’s dynamic, detail-oriented design to life using HTML5, CSS3 and JQuery.
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Sangha News
News the community can use, and comment on, with Wordpress
Many years ago, we built a community news site for the San Francisco Zen Center on Joomla. As time went by, the web changed, blogging and social media became the norm, and yet the old Joomla site remained. SFZC decided that it was time to upgrade, shift to a blogging platform, and update their Constant Contact template to match. We brought in Mike Baxter of Makai Design to handle the look and feel, and we implemented the design into templates for Wordpress, and managed the Constant Contact template creation.
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Ocean Gate Zen Center
A small town Zen Center in need of a Wordpress-driven website
The client wanted something inexpensive that they could edit themselves and use for teachings. Their previous website was having technical issues and was difficult to maintain. We selected and customized an off-the-shelf template.
20120901
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Alternative Medicine Review
A web-based, subscription and ad-supported medical journal
For most of its life, the venerable Alternative Medical Review was supported by a benevolent corporate sponsor and print subscriptions, which permitted it to give away the online edition for free. As online news reading became more popular than print, that time came to an end. AltMed Review asked us to build a new site with a sophisticated, tiered subscription system. We recommended Joomla as the CMS, given Joomla's inherent strengths in this area, and worked with their in-house designer to build the new look and feel of the web journal. Ultimately, the journal wasn’t able to find enough people willing to transition to a paid subscription model, so we converted the system from paid-access to register-for-access.
20120414
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DSLPro
Diagnostic web app and helpful information for DSL customers
Through our long-running relationship with ASSIA Inc., as part of our partnership with Ewert Communications, we were asked to help develop a consumer-oriented web service that brings information and diagnostic tools to DSL customers. The first version included an interactive homepage highlighting the benefits of DSL, and resource pages for everything from how DSL works, to tips for getting the best performance at home. Six months later, we upgraded the site to feature a DSL diagnostic tool built by ASSIA right on the homepage, while retaining the resources from the first phase.
20120801
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Zephyr Creative
Portland, OR-based interactive agency has a new, responsive website
Zephyr Creative is one of our interactive media partners and as part of that partnership, we built a new, responsive web site for the agency. The objectives were to have a site that exemplified the design philosophy, displayed the multitude of projects the group has worked on, and provided a springboard for the next phase of the company. For the portfolio, we created two modes: web and mobile, to highlight the work the team has done for these form factors.
Check out Zephyr Creative, in particular the portfolio we developed »
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Sciton
An iPad game solution for a laser company
Sciton wanted to create a memorable, innovative trade show experience using iPads to capture doctors' attention, educate them about Sciton's resurfacing laser, and hopefully entice them to buy one. The solution, designed by our partners Tam Communications and Makai Design, and programmed by Dewdrop Media, was a custom iPad game, in the vein of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire." Doctors venturing into the trade show booth picked up one of the available iPads, played the game, and then posted their scores to large HD screens in the trade show booth, creating a bit of friendly competition among the doctors. Dewdrop Media handled the iOS game-play, the high score database, and the animated, Flash-based scoreboard that automatically updated with new scores.
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We're a virtual team, coming together based on the needs of a project. This is where we live and work:
Granville, Ohio (HQ)
San Francisco Bay Area
Santa Cruz, California
phone: 707-702-1070
[email protected]