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New Website & Brochure Design for St. Louis Metro East Apartment Complex

Posted on December 3, 2019 by JUSTEN HONG

New Custom WordPress Website

Visual Lure recently launched a new custom WordPress website for Tamarack Woods Apartments, a luxury apartment complex located in Shiloh, Illinois bordering O’Fallon. The complex is extremely well maintained and managed, and is located right next to Target, Dierbergs, tons of restaurants, and both new Memorial and St. Elizabeth’s hospitals. Interstate 64 access is a mile away, and its proximity to Scott Air Force Base make this a highly desired location – plus they offer military and hospital employee discounts.

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New Accordion Brochure Design

In addition to the design and development of the website, Visual Lure also designed a new accordion brochure for the apartments. The new brochure complements the design of the website and features photography captured by Visual Lure. We also designed the original logo.

Tamarack accordion brochure design front

New Custom WordPress Website for Ideal Landscape Group

Posted on April 5, 2017 by JUSTEN HONG

ideal landscape group WordPress website design

Ideal Landscape Group recently contracted Visual Lure to help improve their online presence by redesigning their website. Ideal is a premier St. Louis commercial landscaping company that specializes in commercial groundskeeping, construction, irrigation, snow & ice removal and playground installation. In addition to design and development of the new site, Visual Lure coordinated the copywriting and photography through our strategic partnerships. Cindy Sorgea wrote the copy and Matt Marcinkowski captured the imagery.

The new custom WordPress website features:

Sticky navigation (main sidebar and secondary navbar on template pages) for convenient navigation
A custom Core Services section with navigation
Custom developed section/WordPress post types for the projects gallery that makes it easy to add, edit, organize and remove featured projects
Slider style photo galleries that use WordPress’ native gallery for easy maintenance with a stacked image transition on mobile
A seamlessly integrated blog with featured image and excerpt landing page
Added column structures to expand layout options
Search engine optimized for St. Louis commercial landscaping and all their core services

Old Homepage Design:

old Ideal Landscape homepage design

The old website (home page shown above) was extremely dated; at least 8 years old. It was not mobile friendly or responsive, therefor providing a bad user experience on mobile devices. It had a strange layout, all types of spacing issues and dated photography. Over the years, and especially since Google’s “Mobilegeddon”, the site had seen a steady decrease in traffic and drop in organic rankings.

New Homepage Design:

new Ideal Landscape homepage design

The new home page design is now better organized with a much improved flow. The side navigation bar is sticky, staying in place while the user scrolls. This makes it easy to navigate the site, no matter where you are on the page. There is a custom Core Services section (slideshow) showcasing a featured image, intro copy and learn more buttons to drive users to those landing pages. Below that is an Affiliations section that uses a simple WordPress image widget to add, edit, remove or reorganize the affiliate logos.

Website Photography

We had the pleasure of working with Matt Marcinkowski for the new site photography. We art directed a couple of shots, but it was mostly just Matt doing his thing. With some of the locations providing limited photo opportunities, Matt really turned nothing into something great. Below are some samples of the new photography.

ideal landscaping photography 1

The Results + Organic Search Rankings

Since the new site has been indexed by Google, the (now properly search engine optimized) website has skyrocketed into top positions on the first page of Google for almost all of their core targeted search terms. Currently the website is ranking #1 on the first page of Google for “st louis commercial landscaping”, “st louis commercial landcare”, st louis commercial groundkeeping”, “st louis commercial landscape construction” along with most variations of those search terms. This has led to a solid stream of high value leads for Ideal and they are currently bidding on a handful of projects (leads acquired through the new site) that would pay for the new website 10 times over.

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Balanced Care for Women WordPress Website Redesign

Posted on April 25, 2016 by JUSTEN HONG

WordPress website Balanced Care for Women

Balanced Care for Women is a team of three OBGYN specialist in St. Louis, MO made up of Laura A. Baalmann, M.D., Holly Hiroko Kodner, M.D. and Donna N. Senciboy, D.O., M.H.A. Their offices are located right off of I-270 on Olive Boulevard.

Balanced Care for Women came to Visual Lure when they wanted to redesign their existing website. Their old website was dated and non-mobile friendly which provided a bad user experience. Visual Lure’s new design was built using a fully custom, search engine optimized, responsive designed WordPress theme.

The new site now renders beautifully on all phones, tablets and desktop computers. New features include a form to schedule appointments, an e-commerce section that allows customer to pay their invoices securely online, a custom admin section to manage staff profiles and a sticky header. The sticky header keeps the logo and navigation at the top of the screen, no matter how far down you scroll, always making it easy to navigate the site. We also added elegant CSS animation effects to give the site a sense of sophistication.

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New WordPress Website for St. Louis Area Car Audio Company

Posted on March 31, 2015 by JUSTEN HONG

Xclusive Autosound originally came to Visual Lure to search engine optimize their existing website, but after a review of the site, we found that the WordPress theme they were using was part of the problem. Even though it was responsive, it was slow, scoring in the low 60’s in sections of Google Webmaster Tool’s PageSpeed Insights. Xclusive was also having problems with plugin conflicts and missing image files. Simply put, the website was not ranking well, they were tired of all the headaches it was causing them, and they just wanted it done right. To remedy all these issues we helped Xclusive Autosound design, develop and launch a new custom, fast-loading, search engine optimized, responsive WordPress website. Below you can see the new home page design and the car audio & electronics landing page. Please visit xclusiveautosound.com to view the new site.

Xclusive Autosound is a Belleville, IL custom car audio shop that specializes in the installation of car electronics, automobile, commercial & residential window tinting and automotive paint protection film. Their car electronic products include remote starters, backup camera & sensors, mobile video & DVD players, Sirius XM radios, bluetooth and all types of custom car audio equipment.

Even though St. Louis is an entire river away from Belleville, a large portion of their clients make “that arduous trip” due to Xclusive’s reputation (it is actually only 17 miles from downtown St. Louis, MO to Belleville, IL). Their reputation was built by the consistent quality of their work, never taking shortcuts with any of their installs and their eye for detail. This is important because how some of these product are installed and integrated into your automobile are sometimes more important than the products themselves.

Are you having problems with your existing website?

If you’re having problems with your existing website, don’t try to fix them with another sub-par site. Contact Visual Lure today at 618.407.9231 or info@visuallure.com and we can discuss how we can help you build a solid online presence.

Sneak Peek at New Website for St. Louis Metro Construction Company

Posted on February 5, 2015 by JUSTEN HONG

Visual Lure, in collaboration with Cohesion, is currently working on Holland Construction Services’ new website. Cohesion is a St. Louis, MO based strategic consulting firm and a full-service marketing agency, and Holland Construction Services is a top St. Louis metro east commercial contractor. Holland specializes in providing full-service construction services to commercial, educational, government, industrial, multi-family, recreational and religious organizations and businesses.

The new website is being built in WordPress utilizing a fully custom theme with a plethora of custom features. These include a leadership page where member’s photos are black and white, when selected, they turn to color and move to the foreground. A custom admin section is also being created so that the Holland team can easily add, edit and remove featured projects. The new site will be responsive so that users have a pleasant viewing experience no matter what type of device they are using to view the website.

Cohesion was responsible for the messaging, copywriting and the design of most of the main pages. We then took what they delivered, modified the design so that it could be converted to a responsive layout and we designed the rest of the site staying true to the provided aesthetic.

View the sample pages below, along with our initial proposed home page design (at the very bottom), and check back soon for the official launch.

Home page design

Leadership page

Featured projects landing page

Project’s sub category landing page

Sample feature projects page

Responsive page layout samples

Our initial proposed home page design

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Custom WordPress Website for St. Louis & Illinois Window & Door Company

Posted on November 14, 2014 by JUSTEN HONG

Visual Lure just helped Wilke Window & Door launch a new custom WordPress website. Wilke is a window and door company with showrooms in Shiloh, IL, Fenton, MO and St. Charles, MO. They serve the entire St. Louis Metropolitan area and all of Southern Illinois. In addition to windows and doors, they also carry columns, copper roofs, cupolas, fire place mantels, locksets, shutters & siding, skylights, staircase railing and trim & mouldings. They’ve been in business for over 50 years with a simple business model based on offering high quality products and treating customers right (our favorite types of business to work with).

The new website was built in WordPress using a fully custom designed theme. WordPress will allow Wilke to edit and maintain the entire website in-house (with less than a couple hours of training). The site is responsive, rendering beautifully on all types of devices, which provides for a great user experience. It also features a sliding Request a Quote form, a custom testimonials widget, an accordian showroom contact section and more. In addition to web design and development, we also provided search engine optimization (SEO) services.

Below is the new home page design. Please visit www.wilkewindow.com to view the new website.

Wilke WordPress Website Design

Branding Package for an Edwardsville, IL / St. Louis, MO Wealth Management Firm

Posted on June 26, 2014 by JUSTEN HONG

Visual Lure is currently wrapping up a complete branding package for Visionary Wealth Advisors. VWA is a full service wealth management firm headquartered in Edwardsville, IL with another office in St. Louis, MO. The package included a logo, identity design, print collateral, signage, posters and a fully custom WordPress website.

The new site is fully responsive, meaning it transforms to fit all devices such as tablets and smart phones. It is also search engine optimized and features a custom admin section making it easy for VWA to manage their employees, referred to as “Visionaries”.

Below you can view both the vertical and horizontal logo design formats, the identity package (business card, envelope and letterhead design), building signage, corporate folder and their new website. Visit VisionaryWealthAdvisors.com to learn more about the company.

Website copywriting by Renee Kennison of Concept Shop, and Visionary team photography by Darin Hartlieb.

The only thing we enjoy more than designing logos in building a complete brand from the ground up. If you are launching a new company or looking to completely re-brand an existing one, contact us today! We would love to learn more about you and your company.

Learn more about our logo design, graphic design, web design, Word Press design, and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) services and don’t forget to check out our logo, graphic design or web design portfolio.