Sears Unsung Heroes Contest
In celebration of Father’s Day, the Sears Blue Tool Crew is rewarding dads who are making a difference in their community through DIY projects. Sparkfactor developed this site where a child or person could enter a deserving dad (through an essay upload) into the “Dads Making a Difference” contest and telling about [...]
Sears Chef Challenge
Sears Home Appliance asked us to build a large-scale experience to activate the cooking community. This site involves the user submitted video entries, recipe databases, chef blogs, live streaming video, dynamic contest voting, as well as interactive games and prizes. The challenge puts 24 professional chefs in competition with a chance to win money for [...]
More Green Across America
We produced a interactive experience for Sears Lawn & Garden that acted as a park restoration contest. Users submitted a description of the park in need of repair, uploaded photographs, and then were allowed to publicly vote on the winner. See more at http://moregreenacrossamerica.com/
Kansas Pay Center
We developed a new look for Kansas Pay Center to house their online payment system. The site includes dynamic PHP scripting, minimal Flash animation, and e-mail marketing to promote the new system to registered and non-registered users.
http://www.kspaycenter.com/
Gonesh
What is your favorite scent, is it Number 8? Gonesh’s best selling incense needed to be distributed online so they turned to sparkfactor to implement an online store to market their incense and accessories. The website features a powerful shoping cart and a home page which allows for featured products and promotions.
http://www.gonesh.com/
Panne Provincio
Delicious Artisan breads are a foodies delight, Panne Provincio makes crusty, chewy loaves baked from all natural ingredients in stone-hearth ovens, using authentic old-world recipes. It’s bread with substance, texture and flavor. To showcase their breadlines, Sparkfactor put together this website that is not only educational, but also has unique features like a parings calculator [...]
Merlo Law
Merlo Kanofsky & Gregg Ltd. have been long time clients of Sparkfactor. They were one of the early adapters of using flash in a creative way for their navigation. We recently updated their site to incorporate better webstandards and keep them current. We also manage updates for them. Through the creation of this new site [...]
Lofthouse Cookies
Lofthouse Cookies needed a wibe site as deliscious looking as they are. We photographed cookies and designed a variety of home page images to fit every season. The site also features a database driven system for their products as well as flash games and elements throughout the site and the kids corner. We are particularly [...]
Board of Contract Appeals Bar Association
No not that kind of bar association, what did you think that you were going to get cocktails? BCABA turned to Sparkfactor to develop a website that could be easily updated with a CMS. This CMS was programmed with Drupal for easy customer updates.
www.bcaba.org
Gene Siskel Film Center
I’ll give it two thumbs up! The Gene Siskel Film Center runs a huge list of special screenings, movie premieres, and gala events, so they asked Sparkfactor to strengthen their management system behind the scenes. We installed a Drupal core, and style the structure to match their current one, moved over their catalog databases and [...]
200|230 W. Monore – What a Great Pair!
What a great pair! Of Buildings. The folks over at 230|200 W. Monroe had Sparkfactor update, and merge their existing site for 230 W. Monroe with the facility located at 200 W. Monroe. This process involved a re-branding of their color scheme, with a slight structural modification of the Flash contents. http://www.230westmonroe.com/
Professional Eye Care Center
The EYES have it! Professional Eye Care Center turned to Sparkfactor for the 2nd generation of their website, the first version, also done by Sparkfactor was ahead of its time and this website uses flash and video to creat a unique user experience.
http://www.proeyecarecenter.com/
Lor-Jon Montessori
Instilling the “Joy of Learning” is the philosophy of Lor-Jon Montessori. For this project Sparkfactor created the identity and logo for this Montessori school, and also provided a photoshoot for the website and brochures, a video shoot and edit telling a story about Lor-Jon, flash website and all printed collateral.
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Pebble Creek Partners
“The team at Sparkfactor created a great website for us, and so we asked them to help us with a blog using the same look and feel as our website, thus maintaining our professional branding. The results have been spectacular! The blog has been accessed almost 1,000 times in the first 45 days it has [...]
Devon Bank
Devon Bank recently built a new branch office in Wheeling, Illinois that is totally green like their money.To promote this eco-friendly building, Sparkfactor built an interactive map highlightint the “Green” activities.
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Kelly’s Pub
How about a beer? How about a beer at Kelly’s Pub, a Chicago Tradition since 1933. To help celebrate its 75th Anniversay, Kelly’s looked to Sparkfactor to “draft” their first website.
www.kellyspub.com
McGuire Engineers
McGuire Engineers is a team of dedicated individuals whose primary goal is to develop effective, efficient, economic and unique solutions to their client’s engineering needs. They chose Sparkfactor to develop an effective, efficient, economic and unique solution to their website.
visit the site at: www.mcguireng.com
Sausages By Amy
Is that a sausage in your pants or are you happy to see me? Customers of Sausages by Amy were happy to see that her famous chicken sausages were now available on the internet as Sparkfactor brought the brand online. As the daughter of a long time sausage make, showing the hand-crafted tradition was important [...]
Designer’s Showcase Kitchens & Baths
How do you show your customers the scope and quality of your work? Designer’s Showcase turned to Sparkfactor to create a virtual showroom for their prospects to see the types of ideas and the quality of work that this Kitchen and Bath designer had created!
http://www.designersshowcase.com/
Hollinger Services, Inc.
Trying to separate yourself in a sea of competitors is not an easy task. Hollinger Services pegged Sparkfactor to help craft their brand and program a quote form to assist customers in getting the best rates!
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Creative Directory
Need to find a creative service? The Creative Directory has been THE resource in the midwest for the creative community. Sparkfactor has been a partner to the Creative directory helping them not only with programming and design, but also their database and content management system.
visit the site at: www.creativedir.com
Network Mortgage, LLC
One of our favorite things is to empower clients to take their web content into their own hands. When Network Mortgage approached us about their site we were excited and ready to redesign their presence with some high end design that spoke to the incredible standards and professionalism they bring to their industry. [...]
Woodsmyth’s
When is the last time you cut a log? Woodsmyth’s Chicago has been one of this city’s finest makers of custom wood furniture. But they do so much more. Featured on the telvision show 190 North, Woodsmyth’s also offers Custom Woodworking classes and now he’s become a blogger. Who says that craftsmen don’t know technology.
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Lakeview Metals
How do you make steel cores exciting? How about a photshoot at the plant using some cool lighting effects and a flash website. Plus you can manage content with a flash based content management system.
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