Recent Launches

KayakShed.com

Launch Date: 3.16.2008

Nearly two years after its' initial launch, KayakShed.com has been relaunched with a new look and upgraded functionality. While the core structure of the site remains the same, new designs were applied to spruce things up on the front end, the cart was redesigned, on the fly shipping calculations (both USPS and UPS) were added, the site was rearchitected. Additionally several other updates were made to the functionality to enhance search engine optimization and the HTML newsletter sending tool was migrated to Locus' partner, Vertical Response.

Need Gear? Checkout KayakShed.com - free shipping on orders over $50! Want the latest beta on the Kayak world? Check out John's Blog.

Race4AReason.org

Launch Date: 3.06.2008

Locus Interactive in conjunction with Starbucks Cycling and Seattle Cancer Care Alliance is proud to announce the launch of Race4AReason.org - a website designed to help people in all stages of cancer survivorship by raising money for the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center's Survivorship Program, part of the LIVESTRONG™ Survivorship Center of Excellence Network.

Tasked with creating a tool for SCCA and The Starbucks Cycling Team, Locus Interactive designed and developed a website with extensive functionality that enables riders to plan, coordinate and communicate. Automated reminder emails ensure that riders, volunteers and coordinators don't miss out on any training opportunities and a multimedia module, message board and blog provide plenty of material for post ride cooldowns.

Ride on over to www.Race4AReason.org to find out how you can help.

RipCaswell.com

Launch Date: 2.21.2008

Designed to showcase Rip Caswell's range of sculptures and provide insight into the artist himself www.RipCaswell.com features a complete online gallery in addition to streaming high defnintion videos that provide unique perspective on the artist, his process and work.

Look for Rip to appear in producer Neil Rogers' PBS series "Discover the Wild" which is scheduled to air in 2008 and features Rip and Neil on location researching Bighorn Sheep in Wallowa, Oregon. Or just swing by the gallery in historic Troutdale, Oregon to experience his work in person.

Visit  ripcaswell.com >

RiverHealth.org

Launch Date: 2.14.2008

When Clackamas County's Water Environment Services and Locus' strategic partner Conkling, Fiskum & McCormick needed to tell the complex story of resolving the county's shortage of treatment capacity, they turned to Locus Interactive to design and develop a website to use as a tool for getting this message out.

RiverHealth.org utilizes streaming video to tell it's story and supporting video case studies to support the need for additional capacity to protect public health and water quality.

Residents and interested parties can now visit the website to keep up to date on the latest news and events, monitor construction updates, submit feedback, and register for email updates and information from WES and the Wastewater Capacity Management Program.

NACHC.com

Launch Date: 2.06.2008

Built on top of Locus' proven content management system www.NACHC.com now houses a centralized document library, a custom (and scalable) blog, on the fly include file generation for 3rd party applications, various RSS feeds throughout the site, automatic post and remove functionality for content, along with press releases, an online magazine, and much much more.

Additionally, NACHC.com houses an HTML newsletter generation administration area that utilizes the API of Locus' Partner Vertical Response to centralize the multiple NACHC newsletters and send 2,000,000 HTML newsletters a year.

Portland Regional Parnters for Business

Launch Date: 1.29.2008

Portland Regional Partners for Business offers a broad spectrum of services for it's members including a new web presence that launched in early 2008.

With a new look and redesigned architecture, PortlandRegionalPartners.com provides accessible information on business and the Portland Metro area.

In addition to providing information and tools to prospective members and businesses looking to move to the Portland Metro area, PortlandRegionalPartners.com features a members only area, news and press release modules, and site selection assistance for new businesses.

Manufacturing21.org

Launch Date: 10.11.2007

Manufacturing 21 advocates for the manufacturing industry in Oregon and Southwest Washington. Their goal is to tackle two big 21st Century challenges – sustaining a highly skilled workforce and expanding our region’s capacity to support innovation through applied research and development.

Locus and Conkling Fiskum & McCormick teamed up to bring the website online. Locus provided design, development and hosting. CFM Partner Norm Eder provided the photography and CFM Senior Associate Doug Babb wordsmithed the content.

Visit  manufacturing21.org >

ColumbiaGrid.org

Launch Date: 10.01.2007

ColumbiaGrid is a non-profit membership corporation formed in 2006 to improve the operational efficiency, reliability, and planned expansion of the Pacific Northwest transmission grid.

Locus Interactive worked with Columbia Grid staff to design, develop, and implement a website that is not only good looking and informational (in our opinion of course!) but provides the Columbia Grid members and staff with robust tools that help them achieve their mission.

The site includes a permissions based document management and dissemination module, global as well as activity specific calendars, news and articles modules, integrated html email newsletter sending tool, and much more.

Visit  columbiagrid.org >

Healthcare Communicators of Oregon

Launch Date: 9.20.2007

Designed and developed by Locus Interactive, the new Healthcare Communicators of Oregon website focuses on bringing the features and benefits of membership online, by spotlighting member profiles, advertising upcoming events, and allowing members to log and in view and update their profile, and search for other members’ contact information. Also housed in the members only area are documents available for download from past meetings, speakers and conferences.

Behind the scenes, the site is enabled with a full administration area that includes an editable member database and content management system to allow site administrators to easily update text, images, links and documents

To top it off, the website also has a new, shorter, easy-to-type address: www.HCOregon.org.

Visit  HCOregon.org >

Gardenburger Gourmet

Launch Date: 8.29.2007

Lets face it- everyone likes to eat. The crew at Locus Interactive is particularly fond of dishes from the far corners of the world, which is why its been extremely difficult to focus at work for the past few weeks while we have been wrapping up a micro-site for Gardenburger's newest taste treat: Gardenburger Gourmet Garden Steaks. Nielsen Creative's principal, Heidi Neilsen took the design helm so that the site looks as good as the product tastes. This site features general product info, nutrition information specific to each product, integration with a 3rd party coupon provider, and offers viewers the ability to contact the client directly and subscribe to their e-newsletter. All housed in a content management system that makes it extremely easy to make updates.

Visit  gardenburgergourmet.com >