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Overview

Matarozzi/Pelsinger Builders was founded by Dan Matarozzi and Dan Pelsinger in 1986. They have since evolved from a small construction company to a larger, more disciplined organization. Throughout that evolution they have maintained a standard of teamwork, warranty service and proactive project management unmatched in the building industry. With expertise in residential and commercial construction, they specialize in all aspects of building from historical renovations, remodels, and retrofitting to unique ground-up projects. Their pledge to the highest standards of craftsmanship is matched by their longstanding commitment to sustainable building practices.

Solution

Matarozzi Pelsinger approached Gatelets to develop a new site with some important goals including: minimalist look and feel, greatly improved navigation, 100% managed by staff including adding media-rich photographs and project information, and the ability to add categorized news and interesting information.

The web site is built using Denali 5 - this gave us the ability to provide powerful in-place editing capabilities, user management and intelligent data caching features. Denali 5 provides the ability to create categorized news and blogs, load and resize images and more — it was therefore a process of creating systems to support the desired pages and workflows.

Overview

Gatelets has long been a Vertical software partner, building the company dealer/distributor portal
V-Connect, and various other Web solutions.

Gatelets teamed with our partner Wonderful to design, build and deploy this enterprise site for Vertical Communications.

Solution

The site is built using Denali5 with some specific (extensible) Vertical extensions. The site provides in-place editing capabilities, custom workflows and integration with the Vertical partner portal
V-Connect. The site is designed to work on all browsers, including iPad and iPhone - the system intelligently "changes" based on the OS.

This enterprise site is jam-packed with content and powerful tools such as the custom "ROI Calculator", categorized blogging & searching and a unique solution-to-case-study mapping system. Gatelets is 100% hosting the Vertical.com site and various other sites in their "ecosystem" - we provide 24/7 monitoring, support, reporting, security and backup services.

Overview

Gatelets developed the distributor-focused site Independent Distillers USA to support the impressive nation-wide growth of Independent Distillers. One product stands out - Twisted Shotz.

Independent Distillers asked us to deliver a funky, twisted user-centric site enabling users to find distributors by ZIP code proximity and the ability to have some fun creating their OWN shots.

Solution

Wow - what can we say? Gatelets has created a cool site enabling anyone to search (using ZIP code) for locations where to buy the amazing product AND the abilty for registered user to create new shot flavors. The functionality is pretty awesome. Users can visually create new shots on the fly. The site leverages CSS3 and HTML5 (that degrades nicely for various browsers) to provide a super-rich experience and does not have any dependencies on Adobe Flash ... meaning, this works on anything. Users can track their own shots, see what other people have addded and sometimes someone wins a shirt or even up to $1000... cool.

Overview

Several folks (mainly non-hikers) wanted to hike Mt. Kilimanjaro summer 2011. Certainly some of this was for their own personal fun and experience. They were also raising awareness of the Maasai people in Africa and organizing funds to buy an ambulance for their region.

The group S.H.A.R.E (Sustainable Healthcare Assistance in Rural Environments) approached us to create a charitable site to support their marketing efforts and communication during the hike.

Solution

Using Denali, Gatelets quickly developed a communication and information site for the group. The site provides administrators with the ability to add/edit/delete content and manage blogs. The group also knew they would have a faint cell signal in Kenya — Gatelets developed a specific Denali module to support the ability for mobile/tablet devices with very faint signals to communicate with the servers back in the US. We created a very stripped-down user interface and a focused Denali Mobile Java interface to handle very specific communication with the servers and databases. By doing this, users could login via their iPhone/Blackberry and post news and images/media to the site.

Overview

While managing coursework at UC Berkeley and working as a makeup artist, Mikaela rediscovered her undeniable and longtime love of art, beauty and cosmetics. Having a reputation for a precise eye and professional personality, she has established herself as a burgeoning talent in the area. Her nurturing positive energy, strong work ethic and creative spirit has made her a favorite of photographers and clients. Clients include: Ford Modeling, JE Modeling, Dior, Banana Republic, Juice Beauty and more.

Solution

Over time Gatelets has helped Mikaela with her business site. We recently released a Denali-based version of the site, enabling Mikaela to easily manage all the content on the site including the home page sliders, news, blogs, testimonials, social marketing, work portfolios and more. The site has a unique Mikaela look and feel and provides intuitive interfaces to enable her to make changes quickly.

Overview

Elsevier Science's Reaxys is a unique web-based chemistry workflow solution which supports research and fuels discovery by integrating searches for reaction and substance data with synthesis planning and chemical sourcing.

Elsevier hired us to develop developer and user forums. The user forums are accessible from within the SaaS product.

Solution

When Elsevier asked us to work on this project, they wanted a super-clean and minimalistic Web interface to support the product. One of the key requirements was for the forum to support their unique (custom) authentication system and rules. The forum has to support users and groups within the product, however the forum does not live on the same system (Gatelets hosts the forums) and has to be astracted from any changes to the actual product. Leveraging Denali 4, Gatelets has developed a powerful MVC Web application.

Overview

Jatco approached Gatelets looking for help with their Marketing startegy and Web direction.

Gatelets took the time to interview our employees and do an intensive SWOT analysis. They took the time and care to understand us - understand our business. They understood what we wanted to be. Gatelets has done a great job of capturing the spirit that is Jatco. They have nailed the messaging we are trying to communicate to our customers. Gatelets can be a really powerful asset to any company. I highly recommend them. - Eric Appleblom, VP Sales

Solution

Gatelets worked closely with Jatco to update their online brand and identity. The intention was to assemble a compact site delivering key corporate information easily and succinctly.

The site presents users with clean positioning, video (delivered via the Amazon S3 cloud) and all the information needed to understand how Jatco operates.

Overview

Henry Wine Group asked Gatelets to help them replace an older static site and provide unique new functionality for their dealers and distributors.

Solution

We worked with a core team within Henry Wine Group (IT, Marketing and Sales) to understand the business objectives and key workflows required in a new site. Working with this team, Gatelets designed and developed a Denali-based site enabling some unique functionality including: in-place content management, portfolio searching, ability for dealers/distributors to search their inventories or see invoices, and ability for sales to create and market their own events.

Overview

The Green Wine Book is the only comprehensive guide to California's greenest wineries and vineyards. Fresh off the press, this first edition lists more than 120 green wineries as well as information and tips on understanding organic and Biodynamic wine.

Wonderful asked us to help them create a Web site for Celine Guillou.

Solution

Gatelets worked with Wonderful to create and deploy the new site. The site is intended to be fresh and very clean. The site is also designed to work on any online device including iPhone and iPad — it therefore 100% uses JavaScript for animation and scrollbars. The site was created using the Gatelets pre-cursor to Denali called "Clocktower" - this provides a secure MVC Java framework enabling Gatelets to provide rich functionality including content management, security and database access.