New Venture Games

New Venture Games

NewVenture Games are casual board and card games suitable for family game night, easy to learn, and fun to play. Some are very light, perfect for younger game players, but others involve challenges for the more experienced gamer. These are not your mainstream big store games. Many are created and crafted by a small group of people with big creativity!

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New Venture Games came to us with their exciting game development business and needed a digital presence. The main objectives were:

place to showcase products
news about new products in the works
Ecommerce for online ordering
ability to maintain their own content/make changes

Engine created a website tailored to the requirements of New Venture Games. Our primary focus was on establishing a user-friendly e-commerce platform for online ordering. Through a clear and intuitive menu, we’ve made it effortless for visitors to access comprehensive information about the games. Furthermore, our client enjoys the autonomy to independently incorporate blogs, videos, and update content, ensuring that their online presence remains dynamic and captivating.

The implementation of our new website was critical to our plans and our online presence. The Engine staff helped to define our needs in terms of web functionality and the user experience, and was great at responding to tweaks and updates very quickly. There are still a few features we’d like to add to the site, and Jesper assured us that the structure of the site makes all that very possible when we are ready. I appreciate the expertise in that regard.

Guidance on the role of social media was very helpful to me to understand how they all work together in an overall marketing strategy. While I can supply plenty of content, plugging that content into the right social media platforms and coordinating all that is beyond my skill set. It was very helpful to have someone who could coordinate the Web content, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and others to keep all of those audiences up to date.

David McCord

Owner, New Venture Games

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Camp Henry

Camp Henry is located in Newaygo, Michigan and has been open since 1937. A camping experience at Camp Henry has the capacity to transform lives in many ways. With such a concentrated amount of time, a beautiful natural environment, intentional camp programs and activities, opportunities to try something new, and being surrounded by positive Christian role models – the combination is perfect for enhancing and positively changing the lives of campers and guests who come to Camp Henry.

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Camp Henry has is a great showcase of a user-friendly site where the client can make changes easily to reflect events, offerings, photos, videos and more. The primary objectives of the client were:

user-friendliness
showcase their services
provide information about events
ability to add and change elements of the site on their own

At Engine, we crafted a website with an array of pages and a multitude of customizable elements, providing the client with the flexibility to implement updates as required. The website exudes user-friendliness, boasts an aesthetically pleasing design, and is skillfully and consistently upheld by the dedicated Camp Henry staff, aligning seamlessly with our initial vision.

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Mission Handy

Mission Handy is a small business serving Old Mission Peninsula, near Traverse City, Michigan. They are the neighborhood handyman service focusing on OMP, offering free estimates based on an evaluation or review of your need. Locally owned, veteran owned, fully insured.

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Mission Handy has a website we built in 2023. They are a small business who needed a digital web presence with information so they can be found online. The primary objectives of the client were:

clean, easy to use
informative of what services they provide
a place to add a gallery that the customer can update
easy for the user to contact them

At Engine, we created a website tailored to cater to the specific requirements of Mission Handy. The website is characterized by its lively aesthetics, mirroring the color palette of the company’s logo. It boasts a user-friendly menu and well designed list of services offered. We take immense pleasure in collaborating with small businesses seeking to establish a vibrant online presence through websites like this one for Mission Handy.

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Native News Online

Native News Online

Native News Online is an Indigenous-focused news publication owned by Indian Country Media LLC. Established in 2011, Native News Online is committed to delivering essential daily news that has a significant impact on the lives of Native Americans across the United States. With an annual readership that spans millions, their audience includes not only Native Americans but also non-Native individuals with a keen interest in Native American issues. Publisher and editor, Levi Rickert, is a distinguished American Indian journalist and a member of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation.

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Native News Online has a monthly contract with Engine Web Development to maintain the functionality and all updates to the site. With an ever changing, up to date, constantly moving content, web presence, there is a large need for functionality changes and we work closely with staff at NNO to provide updates. Examples of updates for this client would be:

layout changes as needed
updates to any functionality
SEO targeting and analytics
adding new features

With sites like Native News Online, our commitment extends to providing support and assistance around the clock with clients who utilize maintenance contracts across a wide spectrum of areas. We take care of essential aspects such as hosting and maintenance, ensuring the website’s optimal performance. Moreover, our team is always at the ready to implement any necessary changes and updates, guaranteeing that our clients’ online presence remains dynamic and responsive to their evolving needs.

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Ajacs

Founded in 1964 as a distributor of metal forming supplies and components, Ajacs has continuously focused on providing customers with the highest quality parts and services, exceeding their expectations. Their commitment to customer service, customer satisfaction, continuous improvement and exceeding expectations remains at the core of their Quality Management System.

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Ajacs came to us with the following goals for their site:

User-Friendly
Several pages that can be added onto in the future
Easy to use Content Management System
SEO friendly
Written Content
Staff training on how to use the site so they can change it themselves

Engine designed a website that prioritizes user-friendliness, allowing for the seamless addition of future pages. We’ve integrated features to simplify content updates by Ajacs staff as they need to. The website is optimized for SEO, enhancing its visibility online. We’ve also crafted compelling written content for all the pages. Furthermore, we provide training, empowering their team to independently manage and modify the site.

The entire team at Engine is outstanding. They consistently provide outstanding customer service, creative design suggestions, and implementations on schedule and in budget. They actively listened to our ideas and created a website that exceeded our expectations. We have been thoroughly impressed.

Steve Wierenga

President, Ajacs

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Carried Away Gourmet

Carried Away Gourmet

Carried Away Gourmet offers a delectable array of chef-crafted meals, available for convenient ordering and pickup. What sets them apart is their ever-evolving menu, featuring fresh, gourmet options that change on a monthly basis, giving the local community a delightful variety to choose from.

Distinguished by their commitment to handcrafting every dish to perfection, Carried Away Gourmet is a proud member of a collection of catering businesses located in the vibrant culinary landscape of West Michigan. These businesses are owned by a highly esteemed client who is not only exceptional at what they do but also a pleasure to collaborate with.

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Carried Away Gourmet

This business is part of a collection of catering businesses in West Michigan owned by a client that is great to work with. Carried Away Gourmet provides chef-cooked meals that can be ordered and picked up. The goals of this client were to create a site that was:

easy to use
fresh, changing content to highlight offerings
mobile friendly

At Engine, we took on the task of designing the new website, diligently incorporating the specified requirements. This is a great example of a small business website. The need to be clean and precise, easy to use and does not need a great amount of pages is seen here. In addition, the client sends Engine the menu information each month to update and we also produce a newsletter to her subscribers. This newsletter has all of the meals listed as well as any specials, news or promotions. We also assist with creating and adding any updates to the website as needed.

Interview with Kim Smith, Owner of several Michigan Catering Companies including Carried Away Gourment.

In what ways has working with Engine exceeded your expectations?

Engine brings creativity, ingenuity and fresh ideas to every opportunity. I can always count on them for great collaboration and a streamlined finished product!

Would you recommend Engine to others looking for similar services or collaborations? If so, why?

I would absolutely recommend Engine to others looking for any sort of web design services. Engine brings current ideas and a creative team to make each of my business present differently. I can count on them for great ideas to elevate and position each business differently.

How was the communication and collaboration process with Engine?

The communication and collaboration process with engine is seamless and streamlined. They are always professional ready to tackle any challenge I bring them.

What specific qualities or strengths did Engine bring to the table?

I feel the best attributes engine brings to the table are communication, creativity & implementation. I LOVE working together!

What words or phrases would you use to describe Engine’s work and character?

Engine displays new energy for every project. They come to the table ready to be creative and share new ways of presenting information. Engines brings years of service and satisfied customers to the table and I am proud to be one of those satisfied customers!

Kim Smith

Owner, Carried Away Gourmet