Portfolio: Client Projects Showcase

Designer & Artist Doug Peters' Client Showcase

Hello! Welcome the the client showcase section of my portfolio. Please remember that I often work on temporary websites (such as convention/event registration websites), plus some clients are a little shy do not want to be showcased (personal websites). At the moment I am unemployed after Syd's Eastside downsized at the begining of the year, so I would be more than happy to schedule a project with you.

Mrs. South Dakota:

Mrs. South Dakota 2008
I helped April Kelling, our Mrs. South Dakota - America state pageant winner, get this site creation of mine online. The site was intended to be simple (and inexpensive) so that possibly Mrs. Kelling might take it over and maintain it herself, one day. Plus, I kind of kicked in some of the design expense. Man, that woman is a great negotiator! We are all certainly very proud of what how Mrs. South Dakota represented married women from the great state of South Dakota during her 2008 reign. April exhibits true leadership in her business, community and life. Stop by and check out her website and all the great photos in her online gallery. A reprint of her 2009 Sioux Falls Woman Magazine profile is online with their gracious permission. I am currently sponsoring April's personal profile web hosting at Site Host Pros.

Professional Lawn Care:

Green 4 Ever, Inc.
Your turf management professionals, Green 4 Ever has been expertly managing and servicing Sioux Falls lawns for a long time. They have won The Local Best Award for Lawn Maintenance the past 4 years running and are a recognized leader in the Sioux Falls area. Green 4 Ever, Inc. even donated a pickup truck to the Sioux Empire Baseball Association where my son plays ball. The site is small but uses Cascading Style Sheets to reduce code overhead for search engine content optimization. Even the menu, which is positioned more in the modern blog style, was created using a technique called CSS Sprites.

Metal Product Manufacturing & Welding:

Midwest Metal Work, Inc.
Midwest Metal Works is a premier metal products manufacturer. MMW offers contract welding, a laser cutting service and outsourced assembly services. I have been working with Midwest Metal Works to provide them with an easy-to-use professional web presence that reflects their business. The metalic header and footer is meant to reflect their capabilities as a laser cutting service, metal product manufacturer as well as a contract welding shop. We updated the logo a bit for the web presence, as well. MMW uses our Domain Hostmaster "Best of Breed" Linux web hosting solution in one of the largest and finest network operations centers in the country.

Aviation & Aircraft Support Services:

FirstAIR
Aircraft, boarding bridge and conveyor service, maintenance & repair. Arial Photography. Scenic helicopter flights. FirstAIR has been with me a very long time and I am proud to have designed their website and updated their logo for them. FirstAIR are very professional, freindly people and I am priveleged to be considered their webmaster when they need updates to the site, as well. I also host their website on our advanced Linux/Apache shared web servers at Symbiotic Design for the best SEO results.

Automotive & Motorsport:

Syd's Eastside Auto Parts, Used Cars, Trucks & Rebuilder Vehicles
I not only designed the website, I also maintained it as the webmaster and promoted it as the online marketing directoruntil February of 2009. When I didn't have any other work, Syd's Eastside Auto Salvage was my full time employer, and they allowed me the flexibility I needed to be able to address my client's design, development and promotion concerns on a moments notice. This website features the ability to search the current inventory of used auto parts, new aftermarket car/truck parts and remanufactured automotive engines/components for available parts which are cross-indexed using the Hollander Interchange for accurate interchangable parts between makes, models and years.

Diesel Rebuild Parts.com
An aftermarket rebuild parts and overhaul kits website supporting diesel and natural gas engine trucks and heavy equipment. Brand support includes Caterpillar, Cummins, Detroit Diesel, Navistar and others from quality aftermarket parts engineering and manufacturing giants such as IPD and Interstate-McBee. Diesel Rebuild Parts is a Syd's Eastside Auto property which makes good use of HD Web Hosting full featured Linux Apache web hosting.

Automotive SEARCH
Automotive SEARCH features a Google powered custom search engine dedicated to automotive and motorsports listings, and results are taken only from administration approved links. This allows for better search results because terms such as "auto", "automatic", "transmission", "engine", "motor", as well as others, are so widely used for non automotive industry related features on just about everything else. To allow the public to submit automotive related URLs and listings, a search enabled reciprocal link directory of automotive and motorsport related websites and online resources allows the public the ability to suggest listings for the static directory section, which are in turn considered for resource URLs to be used in the search engine. Automotive SEARCH is another Syd's Eastside Auto property which makes good use of HD Web Hosting full featured Linux Apache web hosting.

Autos & Automotive Blog
As the webmaster for Syd's Eastside Auto, I maintained quite a few online presences for them in their interest across the worldwide web network. This allowed us to keep an active profile available to a wider audience than we would normally get by simply maintaining a website. One of these projects include a blog at Google's Blogster. Blogging (also known as web logging) has become an extremely effective way to get the word about about your website, your business, your causes, even your thoughts and opinions. The blog had positioned itself as a center to get out the word on our individual forums and community discussions, and to create as well as sustain interest in items we featured.

Music:

Violin/Viola Teacher & Performing Musician in Sioux Falls, SD
My wife, Maria Peters is a master classic musician and teacher. She is extremely talented and I am quite proud of her teaching skills as well as her talent as a musician. I designed this website for her some time ago. I also function as the web host through my Site Host Pros brand (invitation only web hosting), secure her domain names at Domain Hostmaster, and act as the webmaster when she requires it.

Psychological:

Dr. Ann McClenahan, ED.D. Psychologist
From a woman's perspective - counseling psychology services for adults and children. Dr. Ann McClenahan is an experienced psychologist with a woman's insight into counseling and therapy. She focuses on women's issues, parenting concerns and relationship problems in the Sioux Falls, SD, area. Although Dr. McClenahan is using one of my free website templates, I incorporated her logo into the design, act as her webmaster and host her website at HD Web Hosting.

Regional Directories

Yankton Regional Shopping, Tourism & Business Listings
Because it is a good idea to have and promote a local online presence, and because Yankton doesn't have any such locally owned regional directory that didn't require a fistful of dollars to be a part of, we also established a regional directory for the city of Yankton, South Dakota. This is a great method for Greater Yankton and the surrounding communities to promote their businesses online. The Yankton Regional Shopping, Tourism and Business Listings directory is also a Syd's Eastside Auto property hosted at HD Web Hosting.

My Own Best Customer

You could say that I am my own best customer, as I am actually building several brands to continually develop for my own online business ventures...

Of course, I run Symbiotic Design as my main company, and I offer brand rich, search engine optimized, website design and development services from my home office studio in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. I operate it as a freelance web design studio as well, which allows me to pass the savings onto the customer by being and hiring freelancers as required per job.

I also run Domain Hostmaster, where domain registration and web hosting solutions are on one of the largest and busiest network operations centers in the world. Domain Hostmaster offers a total control of your DNS (Domain Name Service) and offers a great deal of many extras along with a truly reliable hosting package and all the site tools and e-commerce software you could possibly want in one place.

W3DN.com or W3 Domain Names.com, which is short for Worldwide Web Domain Names, is where anyone can sign-up to be a domain name and web hosting reseller. WWD handles all the customer, billing and tech support, 24/7.

If you are looking for a premium domain name, you can look at my complete portfolio at Domainers.Name. Some brand name domains that come with finished logos are showcased at PremiumBrand.Name, as well.

HD Web Hosting is another popular Linux Apache solution that offers bargain prices for full featured business web hosting. This site offers full featured shared web hosting accounts so that you can get the features you need without paying to much. We call it "High Definition Web Hosting for Heavy Duty Business."

I actually have lots of other websites I could add here, including a wide variety of directories, but the above websites represent the bread and butter of my business. Besides, this is supposed to be the client page, and even though I am my own best client, I don't think I should brag about my online properties too much here, as the portfolio of my own websites is easily and readily available on this site as well as the complete portfolio being available at my Domainer's Name Portfolio.