We designed this website for a vacation rental property located in Helena – Montana’s capitol city. The site contains an extensive photo gallery, a virtual tour, guest comments and links to a 3rd party booking calendar.

While developing the website, we also scheduled an evening photo shoot. We spent approximately 5 hours photographing the interior and exterior of the mansion to ensure that guests who were considering booking the vacation home would be able to see all aspects of the property.

We were also able to work with the Montana Historical Society to obtain turn of the century photographs of the home before it was renovated.

Visit www.HelenasLittleMansion.com

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Services Provided

• Copywriting
• Photography
• Historical research
• Keyword research
• Website design and layout
• Newsletter template design
• PHP, HTML, CSS and JavaScript programming
• Extensive search engine optimization
• Search engine submission
• Local search submission (for inclusion on maps, yellow pages, etc.)
• Google Analytics integration
• MailChimp.com newsletter integration
• HomeAway.com booking calendar

Other services we’ve provided to Helena’s Little Mansion include:

• Consultation on marketing a vacation home in a competitive market
• Consultation in developing off-line sales channels
• Development of in-home resources for guests
• Assistance and training on accepting online payments
• Design of printed and digital forms
• Design of promotional, open house postcards
• Design of flyers targeted to Montana legislators

Rivers To Peaks sells land, residential and commercial properties throughout Gallatin County in Montana. They required a web platform that would have an attractive, easy to use layout, be search engine friendly and would allow them to update properties on a regular basis. We also helped them to develop several tools that would encourage visitors to request additional information, thereby generating sales leads.

The real estate market in the ski resort town of Big Sky, MT is very competitive. Understanding this, we developed several site features that encourage user loyalty and increase the site’s ease-of-use. One of our favorites is the ability for users to add chosen properties to a list of “favorites”. Each individual agent can see which of their properties have been added to a list and reach out to the potential client to begin establishing a relationship.

Since the launch of the website, we’ve performed several upgrades including a revised home page design.

Visit www.RiversToPeaks.com

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Partial Site Features

• Ability to feature properties on the home page and other site sections.
• List of upcoming open houses with several management tools.
• Ability to add, remove and edit all properties.
• Users can sort properties by price, number of bedrooms, location and many other metrics.
• Photo slideshows of each property.
• Support for printer friendly views, PDF file downloads, virtual tours, send to a friend, mortgage calculator and many other user-centric features.
• Drag-and-drop Google Maps features.
• Properties from the Montana MLS are automatically updated every 24 hrs.
• Ability to write articles targeted to buyers and sellers of Montana real estate.
• Basic and advanced site search modes.
• Informational section for community information, maps, activities, etc.
• News, weather and ski reports updated automatically.
• Ability to send customer satisfaction surveys from within the website.
• Staff profiles of each team member with links to personal websites.
• Support for multiple office locations.
• Complete administrative control panel allows client to administer all aspects of the website.

Services Provided

• In-depth consultation and planning phases.
• Information architecture, wireframing and flowcharting.
• Web design and layout.
• Custom content management system (CMS).
• Custom Google Maps application.
• Extensive PHP and MySQL (database) scripting.
• HTML, CSS and JavaScript programming.
• Advanced search engine optimization (SEO).
• Copywriting.
• Stock photography research and purchasing.
• Marketing consulting.

Other services we’ve provided Rivers To Peaks Big Sky Real Estate include:

• Marketing research assistance.
• Pay-Per-Click marketing campaign management.
• Internet marketing assistance with a strong focus on ROI.

When Dillon, Montana fly fishing outfitter, Justin Hartman needed a cost-effective website, we immediately thought of the benefits a WordPress powered website could offer him. Our involvement with this project stemmed from logo, business cards and other identity work we had completed for him.

We already knew Justin has style and is fun to work with, so when he gave us the go-ahead on his web project, the creative wheels just started spinning! Throughout his years of fishing some of the most spectacular trout waters in Montana, Justin has collected many great photographs. We knew that these images had to be the star of his website.

To accomplish this, we ensured that each section of the website would have a different header image displayed behind his logo and the site’s primary navigation bar. Not only would this offer a great, high-impact visual element, it also serves to help the visitor know which section they’re currently reading.

Justin has the ability to update nearly every aspect of his website without having to write a single line of code! He can add special promotions, photographs and seasonal updates as they happen. As web developers, it’s been really neat to watch Justin add information to his website as soon as he returns from the river.

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Website Features

• Ability for client to update nearly every aspect of the website.
• Special promotion is displayed near website navigation for greatest visibility and impact.
• Automatic thumbnailing of post photographs.
• Ability to search entire website.
• RSS and email signup features create leads and encourage return visits.
• Ability for readers to leave comments as Client allows.
• Links to share blog posts using social networking websites such as Facebook and Twitter.
• Full Gravatar support.
• Strong search engine optimization provided automatically.

Services Provided

• Website consultation to determine needs, goals and strategy.
• WordPress theme creation.
• PHP, HTML, CSS and JavaScript programming.
• Research and identify plugins to extend capability while reducing cost.
• Research keywords and provide optimization.
• Google Analytics installation.
• Website hosting and email setup.
• Basic training and instruction on using the WordPress platform.

Other services we’ve performed for Tight Line Adventures include:

• Logo, business card, letterhead and envelope business identity package.
• Printed brochure.
• Truck graphics.
• Apparel graphics.
• Other miscellaneous printed materials.

Sweet Pea Landscaping is a landscape contractor in Bozeman, Montana. The retail side of the business is Sweet Pea’s Nursery and Garden Center. The companies required a web solution that could portray both sides of the business equally, without a feeling of disconnect between the two.

The client wanted to ensure that visitors understood that there were two sides to the business. It was equally important that visitors understand that because of their experience in landscaping in high-altitude climates, they were very well equipped to offer local gardening advice and purchasing knowledge.

We chose to create a design that would clearly indicate what area of the website you were in through visual means. Whenever a visitor is in the landscape side of the website, they are shown different navigational options that they receive in the nursery side of the website. The web visitor can switch to the other side of the business by clicking tabs that are always highly-visible on every page.

Since the nursery’s content is primarily retail and marketing in nature, the content encapsulated within the landscape sections are primarily informational. We developed several methods to generate leads for the landscape business, and focused most of our attention in the nursery toward encouraging users to sign up for their e-mail DealFlyer.

Landscape contractors (and especially nurseries) are a very competitive market in Bozeman, Montana, so it was imperative that the website rank well in search engines. Much of our search optimization was focused on local keywords such as “garden center in Bozeman, MT” or “irrigation installer in Bozeman, MT“. By doing our homework and identifying desireable, high-value keywords, we were able to ensure that the Sweet Pea Landscaping website would never be without visitors interested in their products and services.

Visit www.SweetPeaLandscaping.com

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Website Features

• Strong focus on search engine optimization.
• Sliding navigation keeps pages from becoming “busy” or “cluttered” while allowing the user to focus his/her attention on the information at hand.
• Promotional text on each page shows current sale in nursery.
• Photography throughout the site supports the sales message.
• Contact information and telephone number on every page.
• Ability to update key sections of the website without programming knowledge.
• “Modules” of high-value information encourage the user to click deep into the website.
• Several lead-generation tools convert anonymous web users into actionable leads.
• Complete overviews of all products and services offered by the businesses.
• Areas for photo galleries, testimonials, staff bios, driving directions and much more.

Services Provided

• In-depth consultation of client’s needs and goals.
• Consultation to determine materials available from client.
• Stock photography research and purchasing.
• Copywriting assistance.
• Website design.
• HTML Newsletter design.
• One-on-one instruction on using Constant Contact email marketing software.
• Integration of 3rd party CMS for updates to special offers, hours and class schedule.
• PHP, HTML, CSS and JavaScript programming.
• Advanced search engine optimization.
• Extended monitoring of search results, with certain modifications made for improvements.

Comic book colorist and digital illustrator, Stephen Downer, needed a portfolio website that could be quickly updated. We chose the WordPress blogging platform because of it’s ability to be customized to any design, as well as the many publicly available (read free) plugins that would enhance it’s performance.

Visit www.DownerIllustration.com

Services Provided

• Take client’s original artwork (the city skyline) and convert to a web format.
• Make the billboard, RSS, Twitter and Facebook icons part of the image, but available as web links.
• Create a WordPress theme that would adapt to a variety of different content styles.
• Encourage the viral spread of his work through social networking websites.
• Research available plugins that would improve the site’s features.
• Embed a module that would display the @downersteve Twitter feed.
• Ensure that the WordPress theme would provided adequate search engine optimization.
• PHP, HTML, CSS and JavaScript programming.
• WordPress training and support.

This logo was designed for a web-based company specializing in multi-carrier shipping solutions.

When Mark Sanborn needed a logo for his web-based multi-carrier shipping business RocketShip.it, he looked up Manifest Creative. The logo features a unique typeface and a custom designed illustration of a rocket.

This logo says it all… it is for a mechanic named JR who performs quality truck and automotive repair in Bozeman, MT. JR is an independent mechanic who needed a professional logo to help establish his repair business. He wanted a logo that quickly portrayed his specialized trade.

Other services performed for JR’s Truck Repair:

• Business card design
• Truck decal design
• Sticker design

Professionally designed custom logo for a company that sells performance BMK bike parts. This company is a mobile operation that actually travels to BMX racing facilities for at the track accessibility! This logo features a custom BMX illustration designed to capture the excitement of BMX racing.

When Equis Feed wanted a full color brochure to showcase their new line of feeds, they trusted the job to Manifest Creative.Equis Feed contacted us to create a full color brochure to help get consumers and dealers interested in their new line of quality horse feeds. We designed a roll-fold, four panel 8.5″ x 11″ full color brochure that was perfect for the occasion.

Other services we have provided for Equis Feed:

• Consulting
• Banner design

Full Circle Indoor Kart Racing contacted Manifest Creative to design a full color brochure that would get people racing to their business.

Since we had already designed several of his logos, Craig Beuning of Full Circle Racing contacted us to create his full color brochure. As anyone who has ever spun a few laps at the FCR track will tell you, go kart racing is a total blast. Knowing that, we created a brochure that is fun and exciting… just like the company it portrays!

Other services we have provided Full Circle Racing:

• Logo design
• Gift certificate design
• Post card design
• Poster design
• Advertising design
• Sticker design
• Consultation