April 29, 2008
We're Hiring!
Atomic Crayon is currently seeking outstanding individuals eager to join our team of talented web professionals.
Entry Level Coder
Atomic Crayon has an immediate opening for an Entry Level Coder for a Part-time position Mondays and Tuesdays. Read the full job description.
April 28, 2008
Helping Build Your Future, Atomic-Style
Atomic Crayon has gone back to school with their release of the new CMS-integrated Fanshawe College website.
Fanshawe College is a post-secondary institution offering well over 100 programs leading to certificates, diplomas and degrees. Fanshawe is one of the largest colleges in Ontario with a community focus and campuses located in London, Simcoe, St. Thomas and Woodstock and smaller centres in Tillsonburg and Strathroy. It has over 14,000 full-time students and 300 international students from more than 30 countries.
Fanshawe contacted us in May 2007, looking for help on how to integrate their new web design into a content management system. With courses and faculty changing frequently, staff wanted the ability to easily update their website themselves. Targeting the 18-25 market, Fanshawe had created a slick new website, featuring a flowing design and a wealth of Flash and video. This design required complex CMS templates and a thorough strategy for ensuring the design was perfectly implemented.
Working together, we selected and implemented ElementCMS as the best and most robust content management solution for the college. Once the system was selected, it involved creation of unique templates for over 2,000 webpages, many of which had to take the site's advanced and customized functionality into consideration.
Having a long-distance client located in Ontario added to the list of considerations for the site. With Atomic staff located in Ontario and our Victoria staff available for Eastern time zone hours, we worked with the college's staff to ensure everything was exactly the way the wanted it, and that the site went up as smooth as silk. Fanshawe staff have been updating the website regularly, the site looks great, and we didn't even have to do any extra homework!
www.fanshawec.on.ca
December 17, 2007
Go Quest, Young Man!
The City of Spruce Grove is a community of over 19,500, located 11km west of Edmonton, Alberta. Joining our ever-expanding list of municipal clients, Spruce Grove recently awarded us their MetroQuest project after a thorough bidding process. We accepted our win with our typical good graces - "They like us! They really like us!" Sally Field, eat your heart out.
The purpose of the City of Spruce Grove's MetroQuest project (SpruceGroveQuest) is to provide long-range direction on the policy required for sustainable community development. This project requires a website which will provide education to the public and receive input in return to aid the public engagement process. This will help facilitate public participation in the direction of future policies. In essence, the site will act as a communication anchor to engage and promote the project.
Input by residents who participate in the sessions will determine the outcome of the model in 2041, giving a snapshot of what Spruce Grove might look like based on policy decisions made now. With this large-scale public participation session happening in late Spring, expect a snazzy new website coming in early 2008!
December 17, 2007
Atomic makes a Splash with new website!
Andrew Sheret Limited has specialized in and distributed a variety of products in several fields since 1892, some of which include: Plumbing, Heating, Air Conditioning, Fireplaces, Irrigation, Pumps, Water filtration, Industrial and Water Works. There are currently twenty one locations throughout British Columbia.
Andrew Sheret Ltd approached Atomic Crayon in the summer of 2007 looking for a new website for their kitchen and bathroom division, a child company known as Splashes. Splashes features a dazzling product showroom and personalized consultations to ensure customers get their dream kitchen or bathroom.
When Andrew Sheret decided they wanted to place additional focus on Splashes, they knew that meant an increase in marketing and with that, a hot new website. Over the next 3 months we created a sleek new site for Splashes which showed off their amazing product line in a manner befitting the products themselves. Customized Google Maps, a slick internal menu system and a polished new look all harmonized to create a sophisticated new site. The site and the products look so good, it made us here at Atomic want to get a new kitchen! Now, if we only knew how to cook...
http://www.splashesonline.com/
November 26, 2007
Atomic adds some local flavor
And yet another municipality has been added into the Atomic fold. Now being entered into our municipal docket is the District of Sooke. Located on Vancouver Island, the District of Sooke is a short 35-minute drive from downtown Victoria. With a population of approximately 12,000, residents of the District enjoy a casual, rural lifestyle that still affords them many of the amenities of city life. Sooke selected us to work with them as they were impressed by our municipal website experience and, in keeping with their community spirit, they liked the fact that our company was locally grown.
Though the District of Sooke may not be large, they have expectations to transform their online presence and services into a website befitting a much larger city. We at Atomic have been enlisted to provide a complete overhaul of the District's site architecture, create a brand new website design, and to integrate our content management system, ElementCMS. This combination of services should give the District a prominent web presence.
Ace new website coming soon!
Brilliant new website and full CMS integration.
This charity event gets a brand new design.
A smashing online strategy and CMS integration.
