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Visual Lure Completes New WordPress Website for EWR Architects

Posted on June 15, 2016 by JUSTEN HONG

Responsive designs for St. Louis Metro East Architect WordPress website

EWR Architects is an award-winning architectural firm located in Fairview Heights, Illinois. They specialize in architecture, interiors and planning, and serve the greater St. Louis Metro East area – along with most of Southern Illinois. Their services cover all commercial architecture with extensive experience in office, educational, healthcare, recreational, housing, civil/municipal and industrial.

The new website was built in WordPress utilizing a fully custom, responsive designed theme. The theme includes a high-performance home page slideshow, an easy to use column system, a fully integrated news blog, a sticky navigation sidebar, a sliding testimonials widget, and a custom admin section where EWR’s staff can easily maintain their markets and projects. We customized this section so all EWR has to do is: log into the admin section, go to the custom projects tab, then add, edit or remove their projects. This system is setup so easy all they need to do is: 1. press the add a new project button 2. select the market it goes under 3. add a title and description 4. select a featured image 5. press an “add gallery button”, then drag and drop their images in (The images automatically create a custom slideshow) 6. and press update. The project is then automatically added to their portfolio.

EWR website design custom projects page

Visual Lure completed this website in collaboration with of Cindy Sorgea, a very talented PR specialist and copywriter. She was in charge of project management and content creation. We handled everything on the design and development side.

 

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Branding Package for a Tampa, Florida Photography Studio

Posted on June 4, 2016 by JUSTEN HONG

Donnie Jones Photography is a Tampa, Florida photography studio that specializes in weddings, engagements, high school senior portraits and maternity photography. Donnie is a very talented photographer and someone who understands the importance of building a brand and doing everything right the first time around. He is pretty much our ideal client and we can’t wait to see his success.

Donnie Jones Photography came to Visual Lure wanting a luxury, high-end looking branding package, and we’re confident that we delivered. It started with the logo which features an integrated DJ monogram along with a logo for his premier Gold Collection. We then designed an identity package which included business cards, letterhead and envelopes. We finished everything off with a fully-custom, responsive, fast-loading, easy to maintain WordPress website. The website features a large random loading image on the home page, a fully integrated blog, a sticky header, masonry light box photo galleries and subtle CSS animation effect that give the site a sense of elegance and sophistication.

 

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Tampa, Florida wedding photographer Donnie Jones

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New Website for St. Louis’ Leading Hormone Therapy Center

Posted on May 20, 2016 by JUSTEN HONG

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Dr. Kathy Maupin, the medical director and founder of BioBalance Health, is the most experienced hormone doctor in the greater St. Louis metropolitan area. She has locations in St. Louis, Kansas City, and an affiliate in Pasadena, CA. Kathy and her team specialize in bioidentical hormone replacement pellet therapy for both women and men.

A couple months ago, BioBalance contracted Visual Lure to help improve their online presence. Even though their old website was built responsively, and in WordPress, it wasn’t well organized or logically structured. The procedure to sign up as a new patient was daunting and there was a large drop off of web traffic on their sign up pages. We believed this was caused by potential patients giving up due to the arduous path of filling out forms to become a new patient.

BioBalance website re-design resultsAfter a full analysis of their old website, we restructured the navigation and sitemap, reorganized a ton of information, and streamlined their new patient sign up flow. Our suspicions were confirmed the month after the new site went live as we saw double the amount of new patient forms being submitted. What’s even more impressive is that BioBalance Health has seen an approximate 25% increase in new patients since the site has gone live. Considering that some people are not even candidates for this type of therapy, these are outstanding results. It just goes to show how powerful of an impact a well-designed, user-friendly website can have.

The new responsive website was built in WordPress and features a sticky header, a fully integrated blog, multi-column shortcodes and smooth animation effects. In addition to the re-design, Visual Lure is also providing BioBalance with ongoing search engine optimization/SEO services. The site is now ranking in the top 1-3 positions on the first page of Google for all their primary targeted keyword terms. It was a pleasure working with BioBalance, and if you are looking for any type of hormone replacement therapy in the St. Louis or Kansas City area, look no further that BioBalance Health.

Increase in Web Traffic and Google Analytics

In addition to ranking better, receiving more submission forms and the increase in new patients, we also saw a huge improvement in web traffic. The new website launched in the middle of February and below you can see the Google Analytics from January and March (along with the Feb to Mar). The site went from 3,886 session, 3,288 users and 9,137 pageviews in January to 5,253 session, 4,179 users and 12,507 pageviews in March. The Bounce rate has also went from 63.9% to 58.8%, a 5% decrease which doesn’t seem like much, but is huge in the world of bounce rates. A bounce is when a user visits the site and then leaves after viewing only one page. Taking into account that a user may simply be looking for a phone number, or finding the information they were looking for on that one page, and a portion was from ghost spam referrals, this shows that users are visiting more pages per visit. Yet more proof that users are finding the site more user-friendly and better organized.

BioBalance Health’s Google Analytics from January:
BioBalance Website January's Google Analytics

BioBalance Health’s Google Analytics from March:
BioBalance Website March's Google Analytics

BioBalance Health’s Google Analytics from February to March:
BioBalance Health's Google Analytics from February to March

“I highly recommend Visual Lure for web design and search engine optimization.  Justen and the Visual Lure team truly listened to our needs and completely redesigned our website.  Our website is our primary vehicle for new patients, and we have seen a new patient increase of 25% since the site went live.  We now have a unique, professional, well organized, and efficient website, and we couldn’t be happier.”

— Joe Baalmann
COO, BioBalance Health

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Visual Lure’s New Website Receives Special Kudos Award

Posted on May 18, 2016 by JUSTEN HONG

award winning website design

Visual Lure is proud to announce that our new website has received a Special Kudos Award from CSS Design Awards. CSS Design Awards is an organization that recognizes and honors the best in website design and web development through an international panel of judges. Below is the awards message we received:

“We are happy to inform you that your website has received Special Kudos from CSS Design Awards. Nice work! Special Kudos is CSSDA’s way of recognizing outstanding site designs that demonstrate high levels of creativity, code and usability. It is a professional ‘pat on the back’ for exemplary work that deserves recognition… We’re proud and honored to evaluate the work of the most talented web designers in the world and congratulate you on receiving Special Kudos.”

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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 Custom WordPress Website for Rivas Photography

Posted on April 2, 2016 by JUSTEN HONG

Kansas City event & wedding photographers

Visual Lure recently completed a new website for Rivas Photography. Rivas is a soon-to-be husband and wife photography team based out of Kansas City, MO. They specialize in wedding, engagement, corporate event, professional sports and newborn baby photography. They are known for their clean, bright, vibrant and dramatic imagery. They also happen to be good people which is a pretty important characteristic you want your photographer to have.

I had the pleasure of meeting Kyle and Melissa (the owners) this year at Shutterfest 2016 – where I spoke to professional photographers about branding and search engine optimization (SEO). They took my SEO class which will help their already well ranking website climb even higher.

This brings us to Rivas’ search engine rankings. Before Visual Lure designed and developed Rivas Photography’s new website, they were using Square Space. While Square Space is super easy to setup, use and maintain, their websites tend to load very slowly. What’s the big deal with having a slow loading website? Having a slow site provides users with a bad user experience. This can effect bounce rates and cause users to “pogo-stick” back to their original search – both of which are proven to negatively effect a website’s search engine rankings. Before their new site, they were ranking somewhere beyond the first 15 pages of Google for most of their targeted search terms.

As of today, April 2nd 2016, on Google searches: they are on page 1 for “kansas city event photographer”, page 1 for “kansas city sports photographers”, page 2 for “kansas city engagement photographers”, page 4 for “kansas city newborn photographers” and page 4 for “kansas city wedding photographers” (climbing more than 10 pages in Google in one month). The website also ranks well for many variations of those keywords.

The Results

Within the first month of the new website going live, Rivas Photography acquired five new clients, all directly tied to Google search leads. This has lead to Rivas’ initial investment being paid back three times over. This, ladies and gentlemen, is why we do what we do. We love nothing more than helping other entrepreneurs find success. We couldn’t be happier with these results. We wish Kyle and Melissa future success in both their business and their upcoming nuptials.

 

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Custom Art Deco WordPress Website Design for Maryland Photography Studio

Posted on April 24, 2015 by JUSTEN HONG

Visual Lure recently launched a new custom WordPress website for Wertman Photography, a Hagerstown, MD photography studio owned and operated by Monika Wertman. Monika specializes in engagement and wedding photography along with portraits, including: families, children, babies, boudoir/glamour and high school seniors to name a few.

Monika’s logo was a type-based logo that used an Art Deco typeface and she wanted her new website to match it. So, we designed a custom Art Deco WordPress website for her inspired by a Great Gatsby movie poster. In addition to the new design, we also provided search engine optimization (SEO) services.

The new responsive website features a high performance slideshow, masonry style photo galleries and a fully integrated blog, all of which were setup to be very easily edited and maintained. Below are a couple screen shots of the new site. Please visit www.wertmanphotography.net to view the new website in its entirety.

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wertman web design

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