Kingsbury Companies gets a new, productive website

Last fall, Kingsbury Companies owner TJ Kingsbury called us in to talk about the future of his company, and how the web works into that. We discussed the existing site, analytics, his recent projects, future dream projects, and who internally could be tasked with managing a living, breathing website. We were already supporting a custom-built mobile extranet web application their onsite supervisors … Read More

Cornerstone Burger Co.

Cornerstone Pub & Kitchen (CPK) owners Keith and Rich were expanding their restaurant group’s empire by purchasing the bankrupt Knotty Shamrock in Northfield, VT and completely rebuilding the space into Cornerstone Burger Co. (CBC) They’re focused on high-quality, unique burgers accompanied by some great local and far-flung craft beers. They wanted a website similar to their CPK  location, but needed some pretty … Read More

Cornerstone Pub & Kitchen

After a combined 30 years of running successful restaurants around the western hemisphere, Keith Paxman and Rich McSheffrey are now bringing their foodie-passion back to their hometown – Barre, Vermont – in the form of Cornerstone Pub & Kitchen. When these savvy restaurateurs told us they were opening this cool pub, we jumped at the opportunity to blueprint & develop the … Read More

Bolton Valley

Bolton Valley needed a new website. One that could be simply content managed, look sharp to their users and be extremely functional for all of their content. They wanted the visitor to be able to find what they needed and they wanted the usage tracked. We worked closely with the marketing department at Bolton and Sensible World to define the … Read More

Mad River Valley Chamber of Commerce

The Mad River Valley Chamber of Commerce has been a client since our 1st year of incorporation back in 2000. We started with a complete gutting of their existing flat site and laid it over an Atomz-XML-based content manager. The relationship quickly turned into one of technology & marketing consultant, helping the marketing efforts by developing member email campaigns and the Chamber’s … Read More

Yellow Farmhouse Inn

Comfort, cleanliness and a breakfast full of flavor and love How do you depict the relaxation, warmth and spacious beauty of a high-class Vermont Bed & Breakfast on a computer screen? The innkeepers at the Yellow Farmhouse Inn B&B in the Mad River Valley weren’t struggling for business, but their website had a few problems: Dated, ‘flat’ look-and-feel Analytics that … Read More

Baked Beads

Looking for a recipe for Jewelry sales success: Take a jewerly manufacturing company in Waitsfield, Vermont that prints thousands of high-gloss paper catalogs for their wholesale customers Throw in some retail sales Toss in a store locator database Add a healthy dash of clearance sale broadcast email as well as Facebook advertising Layer over a solid foundation of ‘Internet’ BakedBeads went from … Read More

Symbolicons

When it came time to create upgrade their set of IOS/retina-display vector icons, we took a look at the initial setup of Symbolicons website and saw that, while web visitors were being tracked by Google Analytics, there was no eCommerce data and the source data was being overwritten due to the Quixly.com digital delivery interface. We researched possible Quixly replacements and tested … Read More

Houseneeds

VickeryHill has been working with Branwell, Gary and the team at HouseNeeds behind the scenes for almost a decade. Our primary focus was on back-end integration between HouseNeeds custom ecommerce website and their internal order processing database. In the spring of 2013, we teamed up with Houseneeds and our designer Jory Raphael (of Sensible World) to revamp the public view of his site. … Read More

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A Canadian Mining Town   Content Development   Content Management   Online Lodging  

Mad River Glen

When the snow started flying early this fall in Vermont, local ski mountain/co-op mad River Glen was deep in winter preparations, including a new public website look-and-feel by Sensible World. Mad River Glen asked VickeryHill to take the Adobe Photoshop files and make working web pages that their webmaster could integrate to their existing content management system. We, of course, couldn’t wait … Read More

Verilux

When it comes to innovative products for healthy lighting, and now cleaning, Verilux is tops in our book. Original developers of the HappyLight to help treat energy lulls in people affected by lack of sunlight (Vermont from November to April!), Verilux contracts VickeryHill to be their web experts. We initially consulted back in 2005 on basic web design concepts and … Read More

Addison County Economic Development Corporation

We love working with local business groups and the Addison County Economic Development Corporation (ACEDC) is a Middlebury-based business that works hard for its members. We met ACEDC through VickeryHill design partner Sensible World and the director’s husband, Ted Scheu the  Poetry Guy. ACEDC’s website needed a retorfit to better serve the public and their members, including: A redesign (by Jory Raphael) that worked on … Read More

Poetry Guy

Children’s poet Ted Scheu wanted a web presence that spoke to his audience (elementary/jr-high children and teachers) and promoted his life’s work: writing, performing and teaching poetry to the masses. Working with Ted and SensibleWorld, we devised a unique usage of YouTube, Amazon, MailChimp and sharp illustrations to create a website that was fun to interact with on the student side, but also … Read More

Vermont Weddings

When Your Big Day LLC acquired the VermontWeddings.com product from the Mad River Valley Chamber of Commerce, their intent was to take a solid brand and take it state-wide. In January of 2012, we upgraded the back-end data to work with the new structure but still fit within the existing look-and-feel. Using a new Eva Us website design, we built a … Read More