Cowan Site Services : Portfolio

In partnership with Austin's premiere social marketing agency, Enviromedia, Cowan Site Services has developed several new and exciting projects. As part of the popular Don't Mess with Texas advertising campaign, CSS developed a scholarship application that allowed high school seniors to apply online for college scholarships. The program used PHP and MySQL for the application and judging module. Once submitted, judges were able to review the applications and make updates as needed. When the application process was complete, judges downloaded all of the applications into Microsoft Excel for final processing.

Using Joomla, Cowan Site Services and Enviromedia developed the GetFitKit site for the Texas Department of State Health Services. Joomla allows client to manage content using in-house resources.

Using WordPress as a Content Management System, CSS and Enviromedia developed the Love your Kidneys and Save their Kidneys websites for the Texas Department of State Health Services. Once again, in-house resources are able to update pages in the sites without HTML or CSS expertise.

Using Blogger's custom template capabilities, CSS built a series of interlinked blogs for Climate Savers Computing. The project required 6 templates. Five are independent blogs and the sixth pulls the latest feed from all of the blogs to one central page.

As a contest, CSS wrote wrote another PHP/MySQL database program allowing teachers to enter their schools for a $500 stipend at TobaccoCosts.org.

As a subcontractor to Majec Systems, Inc., CSS worked on several corporate sites for the DeltaV Marketing Team including the latest interactive calculator at I/O on Demand Savings Calculator We regularly made graphic and HTML updates to sites in addition regular to search engine consultation. We also developed stand-alone solutions for in-house clients including dashboard pages and HTML email templates. But even more exciting, we assisted in the development and launch of Emerson's first corporate blogs and RSS webfeeds.

Our Blog development efforts included design concepts, template layout and HTML maintenance using the Movable Type blog engine.

With painstaking attention to detail, we brought four Emerson websites (EasyDeltaV.com, RS3.com, PROVOX-secure.com, and SureService.com) into compliance with W3C standards to ensure optimimum usability and compatibility with emerging browser technologies.

In partnership with Jeff Koke Design, CSS built many sites over the past years. We use all style-sheet, XHTML-compatible layouts that are compliant with W3C and accessibility standards. Recent sites include Athens Group, DHSoft/Customer Chemistry, Phurnace, JI Companies and Bantam Electronics, and many more. Several of these clients were so pleased with our initial work that they are now maintenance clients as well!