We are proud to announce that we have just been awarded the web development project for the Southeastern Ohio Port Authority (SeoPA). This is a joint project with our Ring of Fire partners, Claire Mullen Design and the Frank-Collins Group.

CMD will be handling creation of the organization’s logo and visual identity, as well as collateral materials such as business cards, brochures, folders, maps, a billboard and more. Joy Frank-Collins will be lending assistance with copywriting.

We, of course will be handling all aspects of the web design and development, including integration of an email distribution system.

We can’t wait to get started on this exciting project and will be posting updates as available.

Marietta Times Article: 6/27/06

It’s been quite an exciting week for FireBox! On Saturday, June 24th, we were featured in the weekend edition of The Marietta Times. It was a pretty good article about Ryan and I, the history of the company and how we’ve become a successful technology company in a small town in Ohio.

The second article ran today announcing that we’d been awarded the Southeastern Ohio Port Authority project. More on that later.

Click below to read the articles:
Marietta Times Article: 6/27/06
Marietta Times Article: 6/24/06

We’ve just totally rewritten and restructured the online documentation to FireControl, our proprietary content management system. We’ve broken out each cms function and explained them in detailed, albeit understandable, terms commplete with screenshots.

If you’re currently a client, check out the new docs.

If you’re not a client (and you should be), check out the new docs.

If you’re curious about FireControl and how it could help you manage your website, check out our online demo.

FireBox has just been selected to redesign the official site for the Ohio Association of Convention & Visitors Bureaus! We are honored to have been chosen for this exciting new project and we’ll be posting updates as available.

FireBox has just launched the new official site for the 2006 River City Film Festival. While specifics on actual films will be coming soon, the site provides the basic Who, What, When, Where for the event, as well as a PayPal-enabled online submission system.

New additions to the site will be ongoing, so be sure to sign up for the mailing list to stay in the loop!

Grocor, LTD came to us to revamp their e-commerce web site, which was powered by Yahoo! Merchant Solutions. They wanted to add many new products and make the site more attractive and easier to maintain.

Unfortunately, Yahoo!’s store system leaves a lot to be desired, requiring that you create many static pages for products, which totally goes against our mantra of making web sites that are easy to maintain and as automated as possible.

When I first started digging into the Yahoo! catalog system, I could hardly believe it. The interface and functionality seems to have been frozen in time, circa 1999. You have to navigate an unnecessary sea of links to get where you want to go and there are lots of places where you have to enter data in multiple places when one would have sufficed.

And have I mentioned everything is sloooooooow? Read the rest of this entry »

According to the web site, “Microsoft® Expression® Web Designer” gives you all the tools you’ll need to produce high-quality, standards-based Web sites the way you want them.”

Standards-based, huh? Someone should tell them the web browser they make isn’t standards-compliant

We’ve just upgraded our blog system, which has required a change to our RSS feed. The new feed is now http://fireboxstudios.com/blog/feed/. Please change your reader subscriptions accordingly. Thanks!

FireBox Studios is handling the creative and web development for the River City Film Festival, a fund-raising event to benefit the renovation of the Colony Theatre in Marietta, Ohio.

So far, we have created the official film festival logo and the Call for Entries flyer.

We are also in the midst of working on the festival’s website at www.rivercityfilmfestival.com, to be launched by June 1st.

The new site will have all the information for submitting a film as well as discussion forums and more. Feel free to visit the site today to download the flyer and sign up for email updates.

Kudos to The Blennerhassett Hotel for the recent successful launch of their new website, designed by FireBox Studios.

FireBox was contracted to create a new look for the hotel, and provide easy-to-use templates to their in-house web team for use in building a new site.

The hotel’s web team took our designs and standards-compliant prototypes and created a full website that provides a wealth of great information for their guests (of particular interest to us is their Starbucks® bar

The Blennerhassett is an elegant hotel in Parkersburg, West Virginia, built in 1889. The hotel caters to both the leisure and business traveler and is a member of Historic Hotels of America.