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Cloud City Digital plans and builds rich, beautiful, and functional projects on the internet.
Our Process
Research Your Needs
Explore Solutions
Build a Plan
Work!
Refine Prototypes
Deliver Project
Train & Support
Maintain & Improve
We Tweet on Twitter
@keithinstone I'm up in AA meeting with potential clients today, won't be able to make it. Thanks for the workshop heads up, lunch soon?
Posted: 07.29.10
Anyone else going to Maker Faire in #Detroit this weekend? @BPflum? http://makerfaire.com/detroit/2010/ #arduino #DIY
Posted: 07.26.10
Is there a word more completely and utterly misused than "literally"? I'm blown away (metaphorically!) by how often it's used improperly.
Posted: 07.26.10
Which lobbyist missed a payment to their inside guy at the the #Copyright Office? Maybe a PayPal error? #DMCA #government #jailbreaking
Posted: 07.26.10
@lessig Interesting question. Some have cited "Downfall" as a case where fair use did not apply due to sensitive nature of the content.
Posted: 07.26.10
It's live – historic milestone in making government more open: the new Federal Register beta at http://www.federalregister.gov/ #opengov
Posted: 07.26.10
Wondering if it's possible to learn Spanish on Twitter by following a few Spanish speaking folks & slowly learning the language contextually
Posted: 07.25.10
Case Studies
Client
DiGeronimo CompaniesProject
Coding of Photoshop file into xHTML/CSSComments
We teamed up with Minch Design to implement this project, building out Craig Minch’s design into xHTML/CSS for this very ‘earthy’ site.
Client
Bowling Green Christian AcademyProject
Brainstorming / Project planning / PrototypingComments
Our challenge was to build a dynamic, teacher driven site that could be easily updated and would grow with the needs of the school.
Bowling Green Christian Academy
Brainstorming / Project planning / Prototyping
We are lifelong learners at Cloud City Digital, and relish the opportunity to work with clients involved in education. Bowling Green Christian Academy asked us to built a content management system that would allow their teachers and staff to directly interact with the site, posting news announcements, events, homework assignments, and other important information.
After several research sessions with project liaisons from the school to determine the goals and structure of the site, we developed a project timeline and moved into the creative stage of the process.
Teachers at BGCA have a wide variety of technical experience, ranging from internet pros, to teachers who still prefer pen and paper. Keeping that in mind, we developed an interface for the back-end of the system that scales in interface complexity based on a users role in the system. More experienced users see a more detailed interface with more options and features with which to interact.
After internal testing and refinement, we met with the teachers and staff of the school to conduct training for the teachers and administrators that would be using the system on a daily basis. Once the training and initial content seeding was completed, we launched the site and teachers began using their class page for posting homework, photos, and event reminders.
Client
ToolingUProject
Coding of Photoshop file into xHTML/CSSComments
Another collaboration between Minch Design and Cloud City Digital, this project consisted of a redesign of ToolingU’s online testing system and bookstore.
ToolingU
Coding of Photoshop file into xHTML/CSS
We are lifelong learners at Cloud City Digital, and relish the opportunity to work with clients involved in education. Bowling Green Christian Academy asked us to built a content management system that would allow their teachers and staff to directly interact with the site, posting news announcements, events, homework assignments, and other important information.
After several research sessions with project liaisons from the school to determine the goals and structure of the site, we developed a project timeline and moved into the creative stage of the process.
Teachers at BGCA have a wide variety of technical experience, ranging from internet pros, to teachers who still prefer pen and paper. Keeping that in mind, we developed an interface for the back-end of the system that scales in interface complexity based on a users role in the system. More experienced users see a more detailed interface with more options and features with which to interact.
After internal testing and refinement, we met with the teachers and staff of the school to conduct training for the teachers and administrators that would be using the system on a daily basis. Once the training and initial content seeding was completed, we launched the site and teachers began using their class page for posting homework, photos, and event reminders.
Client
The University of MichiganProject
Custom Content Management System / TrainingComments
We were invited to share a prototype of a hall portal system that we have been developing, in addition we participated in a discussion about community building and the role of emerging technology on campus.
The University of Michigan
Custom Content Management System / Training
Innovation is something we are passionate about. We love finding our clients new ways of doing old things, and doing them cheaper, faster, and more efficiently.
The Office of Residence Life at the University of Michigan asked us to share a prototype of a university residence hall portal system that we have been developing based on our custom content management system. We demonstrated how hall directors, resident advisors, and residents themselves could access the system and contribute content, with a robust editorial system that allows free speech, while ensuring review of content.
We are seeing people getting online from a wide range of devices. Keeping that in mind we demonstrated some of the many ways that content could be accessed, including RSS feeds, mobile phones, and televisions displayed in lobby areas.
In addition, we participated in a discussion about community building and the role of emerging technology on campus. We shared on the importance of integrating open platforms and services like YouTube, Fickr, Facebook, and RSS feeds into an organizations web presence. We’re looking forward to partnering with the University of Michigan to explore innovative ways to communicate and collaborate with a student population that is increasingly using the web as a resource in every part of their lives.
Client
C.I.S.PProject
Creative Services / Video production / Web DesignComments
A hybrid of print, video, and web marketing, this project allowed us to really flex our creative muscle!
C.I.S.P
Creative Services / Video production / Web Design
What would you do if you received a small box containing fortune cookie in the mail? This was the question that sparked our hybrid mass-mail/video/web marketing project with C.I.S.P. The overwhelming consensus was that you would not be able to resist cracking the cookie open and reading the message!
Working with C.I.S.P, we built a multi-stage marketing campaign which started with mailing a small cardboard box to a list of small ISP’s that would be interested in purchasing one of C.I.S.P turnkey systems to simplify tech. support, billing, and accounting. This box contained a single fortune cookie with the cryptic message ‘www.whatsmyfortune.com’
This URL leads the potential customer to a website where they are greeted by a video of an ISP manager who has also just received the same mysterious fortune cookie – we don’t want to spoil the plot, be sure to visit the site! After the video finishes, the users is guided through a short, persuasive sales presentation, and given to opportunity to complete a form that will put them in touch with a sales representative.
Response to this marketing campaign was excellent and C.I.S.P re-cooped all expenses incurred in this promotion very shortly after the first boxes were sent out. Sometimes it pays to think ‘inside the box!’
What we do
Web Planning and Development
No medium in recent history has done more to change the way we communicate, conduct business, and share information than the Internet. Cloud City Digital has been building the kind of sites that make the Internet so powerful for over ten years.
From basic sites that serve as a digital brochure for your organization – to full fledged content management systems that allow you to update your own content through a web browser (no web design skills needed); we can help you meet your goals on the Internet. Learn more about our process by clicking the tabs in the top left of this page.
Online Training and Testing
Training online is extremely efficient and can reduce travel and work-loss costs drastically, while providing a flexible method for keeping your entire workforce up-to-date on your organizations polices and procedures.
We develop eLearning content that can be created based on your current training materials or built from scratch with your resident content expert. Our eLearning offerings allow employees to be trained in an online environment, and, depending on your goals, be tested and scored on their comprehension of the content. We’re interested in hearing about your unique training challenge!
eCommerce – Online Storefronts
Widgets – gizmos – whatchamacallits. If your business is selling it, chances are you could be selling more of it on the Internet. Cloud City Digital builds and hosts online storefronts using the powerful Magento eCommerce platform, which has quickly emerged as the industry’s leading solution for building robust sales tools and catalogs online.