Web Production Portfolio from Tipit

Featured Simple Web Production

G Systems

G Systems is an engineering services and systems integration company specializing in designing and building turnkey test and measurement, data acquisition, and control systems.

They came to Tipit seeking a website that could clearly articulate their offerings; was optimized with the latest in pure CSS / XHTML; had a clean and well structured design; and was easily updatable by the average marketing person.

The new site better reflects their growing sales and market position. The result has been a complete makeover designed to take G Systems to the next level of competition in a global marketplace.

Featured Client Services Member

SaveOnEnergy.com

SaveOnEnergy.com provides utility customers with the tools to easily find, compare, and order competitive energy services. Working with the firm's designated designer, Tipit has undertaken a complete information architecture overhaul, clarifying and simplifying this outstanding online tool.

Via the client services membership, over time, Tipit has continued to evolve the save one energy site from a simple information site into a sophisticated web-based tool for maintaining constantly up to date energy rates , an affiliate tool for tracking referrals and a multi-market / multi-state option for adding new markets for people to compare energy rates and sign up for lower cost providers.

The client services membership has worked because there is a dedicated operational budget to constantly growing and involve the website. With each added feature the site becomes more useful and more of a tool for running the business of saving people money on their energy bill.

In addition, the site was implemented using pure CSS / XHTML layout techniques and has been constantly evolving to make the site even more optimized for search engines. The success has been truly remarkable and a big score for the continuing development model.

Featured Complex Web Production

Time Warner Local News Group

What began as a publishing system for a 24 hours news station in Austin, TX has evolved into one of our largest and most aggressive projects.

Recruited by Time Warner Local News division to develop a news publishing tool for their 'next generation newsroom system', we rose to the challenge and re-developed the previous news publishing system into a modular tool to be rolled out with each station launch.

Now, five years later, Tipit and the Time Warner Local News Group continue to partner in an ongoing effort to utilize web-based interfaces / applications in new ways to facilitate the 24 news production process.

The latest tool is a system that aggregates data from across the Internet and allows individual stations to customize on-air tickers using a web-based interface.

This enables stations to display sports scores, stock prices, weather events, and virtually anything else of interest to a very localized market with the click of a mouse!

As the needs of these unique news stations grow, we look forward to expanding our innovative and successful partnership with Time Warner Local News Group.

Additional Clients & Projects

Below we have collected a sample of our current projects to highlight various aspects of our work. Note: this is just a small sampling of the breadth of our work over the past decade plus. We pride ourselves on the range and scope of our efforts and hope that our dedication to your needs is readily apparent.

Discover Magazine

In collaboration with Abstract Edge Tipit was brought in to do all the XHTML templates for the entire Discover Magazine publishing site. Utilizing the open source content management tool, plone, Tipit ensured the front end look / feel of the site matched precisely what the designer had drawn in the design comps.

Acting as the middle man integrator, Tipit had to be able to work on a technical level with the plone engineers and on a visual level with the designers. Bringing both sides together and weaving a middle ground that elegantly brought together form and function Tipit, as a production company, excelled in this role. There are dozens of pieces that have to come together to pull off a successful web production. This project came in on budget and on time.

Read the case study written on the extreme success of this site.

Urban Passport v2.0

Over the past year Urban Passport has reinvented itself. The goal is to become the singular destination for users wishing to find a breadth of information about various hotels around the world. This is accomplished through combining the content gathered from scraping websites across the Internet by taking snippets of various reviews (and linking back to them), user generated reviews and standard issue reviews being presented in one easy to use interface. In addition to ad revenue, users can also book the hotel stay directly on the Urban Passport site; both of these generate revenue for Urban Passport. It was recognized from the beginning that Urban Passport needed to be extremely search engine optimized. The idea being that most users would find the site by typing in the hotel name vs. going through the sites main page. As a result, through an alliance with Rank Smart, SEO was built into the very fabric of the site.

Tipit has handled every aspect of this production from design to programming to continued evolution of the site through our client services membership. Some of the technologies used to accomplish the automation that powers this production are: Web Services which connect into the GDS to dynamically pull hotel information, images, etc and handle the hotel booking process. Scraping Engine which goes out and polls various websites to update the review snippets on an ongoing basis. Pure XHTML / CSS and engineered content for the ultimate in search engine optimization. Robust search mechanism for picking up keywords in hotels as well as identifying geographic words in the search to return hotels in that location.

Clairol Premium Creme

Another collaboration with Abstract Edge, Clairol required a new site to feature their new premium crème permanent color system. Tipit handled all production aspects of this site from an astounding pure XHTML / CSS design (no tables in this site!) to a PHP / MySQL based store locator to a custom flash video player. Each page was hand coded and the site was done under a tight deadline.

Clairol has been so happy with this site, that they have just decided to redo the entire Clairol Pro site in its image. This site will serve as a template for a re-invention and recoding from the ground up of the Clairol Pro site, appropriately placing the premium crème site as a subsection of the overall clairol site.

American Express Network Messaging Toolkit

Through our alliance with Origin Digital, American Express needed a quick turn around on a site where they could distribute their messaging to card issuers. The site needed to have a membership system, a secure method for distributing files and a reporting system to see which issuer was using which messaging pieces. Tipit rescued this project and turned it into a resounding success. American Express was never happier and as a result, everybody involved shined.

American Express Open Forum Online III

Another production through our alliance with Origin Digital, American Express needed an event web space to support their open forum broadcast. The space was essentially a mini portal where users could register and participate in a post broadcast Panelist Q&A. The broadcast aired on several major networks in major markets. In addition, once a user was registered they could choose from several chat rooms so users could discuss amongst themselves as the panelist Q&A occurred. The Q&A itself was driven by a AJAX interface that "pushed" the questions / answers to the users browser as they were answered in real time by the celebrity panelists. In addition, Tipit custom developed an admin tool so that the panelists could select questions to answer and submit their answers all in real time. A moderator controlled the publishing of the answers.

As a result of Tipit's expertise, this project was an overwhelming success. Many different elements were pulled together and the sophisticated delivery wowed everyone involved.

TripStalker

A Tipit incubation product, TripStalker is a new, easy-to-use application that grabs the best online travel deals. What does it mean to stalk a trip? You simply enter your search criteria for an upcoming airplane, hotel or car reservation and our application continuously scours the Internet looking for the best price possible.

The Association of Progressive Rental Organizations (APRO)

The Association of Progressive Rental Organizations is the international voice for the rent-to-own industry. The association offers a wide range of services and resources for both RTO dealers and vendors, including education programs, annual meetings, seminars and more.

Given their role as the national voice for the rent-to-own industry, APRO views their online presence as a critical element of their continued success. As a long-time Tipit client, we have consistently assisted APRO to make the best use of technology to reach and engage their constituents, and other audiences. From data management and e-newsletters, to search engine optimization and pod casting, Tipit's technology partnership with APRO has kept both organizations progressing.

Liskow & Lewis

Liskow & Lewis is a highly respected New Orleans based law firm with unique expertise in energy law. The firm provides comprehensive client representation in litigation and transactional matters across a wide range of business needs and has established itself as a go-to resource for the Gulf Coast region.

In 2005, as part of a larger branding effort, Tipit was selected to manage the redevelopment of the Liskow and Lewis website. That relationship continues today, with Tipit currently handling new projects such as email newsletters, online PDF generation and redundant data hosting.

National Instruments

For over 30 years, National Instruments has been a technology pioneer and leader in virtual instrumentation — a revolutionary concept that has changed the way engineers and scientists approach measurement and automation.

When National Instruments needed a technology partner to manage their affiliated website's, they turned to Tipit and the Simple Content Management package.

Now, National Instruments has the online tools to reach key customer segments in a timely and efficient manner - all at a low cost.

NTS Press

"Construct inventive, interactive, and affordable solutions to enhance learning, increase technical literacy, and inspire careers in engineering, science, and mathematics.

We integrate and exploit industry leading software and hardware with newly created material to motivate and educate engineering and science students."

NTS Press needed a clean web design, pure XHTML / CSS layout techniques, search engine optimization and an easy to use content management system to quickly update their site.

They found all this and more engaging Tipit to put together a simple, yet sophisticated solution. Now NTS press is able to reach their audience quickly and easily. The web site is serving a crucial role in their marketing efforts and the easy to use nature of the system leaves them free to focus on other things knowing their website is constantly delivering and easily updatable.

Castle Hill Investments

As Austin's premiere 1-4 unit investment firm, Castle Hill Investments has seen tremendous growth since its inception three years ago.

Working one on one with Robert (founder) Tipit helped Castle Hill Investments get off the ground. As a startup, money was tight so we deployed one of our Simple Content Management website' giving him a quick, affordable and great looking web presence to build the business.

As the business has matured, the needs of the firm have changed. Email, contact management, mobile technology and data backup have becoming critical elements in the ongoing success of Castle Hill Investments.

Through Tipit's Clients Services Membership program, we been able to alleviate these concerns so Robert and his team can focus on selling. In addition to providing email hosting and management for his employees, Tipit also provides Blackberry and Treo support for those using these devices. And with world class hosting at Rackspace and continuous statistical updates from LiveStats, Robert know his site is up and his sales targets are on track.

Best of all, as Castle Hill Investments continues to grow, so will the client services offered by Tipit. Ensuring that this is one investment Robert can always count on.

Texas State Optical (TSO)

Texas State Optical is a respected organization of doctor-owned and operated eye care practices in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and Oklahoma. TSO approached Tipit Communications to not only reinvent their existing corporate web presence, but also to design and develop a web-based application where individual offices could point and click their way to their own website.

Scott Nehring

As a self-taught woodworker, Nehring has studied the art of woodworking for over twenty years. Using a Zen-like approach to his art, he applies the key elements of patience and meticulous attention to his one-of-a-kind creations while making this part of his daily life. Naturally, when Scott was looking for a company to create the ideal blend of art, technology & usability Tipit was the perfect choice.

demandFITNESS

demandFITNESS was created to address the needs of those whose obligations making going to a gym impossible. Delivering professionally-developed health and fitness classes, and using trained instructors, demandFITNESS develops targeted classes which can then be accessed by you on demand — anytime, anywhere. Tipit has been instrumental in managing the video conversions, fitness database and personalization of this hot new start-up.

Main Street Wines

After visiting this great wine store in Nyack, NY Tipit created a partnership to develop a compelling online e-commerce site enabling Main Street Wines to extend its sales well beyond its local town square and deliver directly to the homes of people across the nation.

DentPro

DentPro required a web site that reflects their company in a professional, industry-leading voice. We redesigned the site from scratch and added additional features such as an automated quote request and an online appointment scheduler. The result is a web site that is as flawless as a car that has just been to DentPro. No dents here!

Highlights of our clients and our work