Chandler Reach Winery gets Website Makeover

Chandler Reach Winery near Benton City, Washington has just gone live with their newly re-designed website with the assistance of Cellar Door Consultants and proved that it is possible to save money and gain functionality at the same time.

Like many companies that were early adopters of technology, Chandler Reach found themselves in a dilemma.  They had gotten a website up and running in the early days of their business and over time it had gotten a bit cumbersome to manage. The site had been managed by several editors and had a variety of styles and files. The General Manager, Shelbey turned to Cellar Door Consultants to help her disentangle years of accumulated website information and come up with a plan to simplify the management of their website.

Within a very short time and with a bit of detective work, we were able to locate the their domain registration along with the actual website hosting locations (yes there was more than one). We disentangled all the crossed wires and redeployed the website in a modernized, web based content management system.

Shelbey is now able to edit the website content with her browser, from anywhere in the world. She can now edit her online event calendar, upload images, add pages, time content publishing for future dates and save nearly 70% of her monthly hosting fees.

At Cellar Door Consultants, our goal is to increase your abilities without increasing your costs. We can help you simplify your system without increasing your dependence on technology providers. Give us a call, maybe you will be our next website makeover!

Cellar Door Consultants Welcomes AlmaTerraWines.com

AlmaTerra Wines moves website to new platform and the transition took only two business days!

The team at AlmaTerra Wines had a desire to modernize the content management ability on their website. There was a strong desire to relocate the hosting service to one that could easily accommodate a web based content management system.  Their sister site Smasne Cellars was designed by Cellar Door Consultants earlier this year with this idea in mind.

Cellar Door Consultants met with AlmaTerra’s Marketing Director, Echo Smasne, on the morning of Friday August 7 to discuss transitioning the existing website using a set of web based tools to ease the pain of making updates to their content and keep the site current. Their old system required them to return to design software each time they needed a change.

Cellar Door Consultants created a new branded Theme and customized  functionality for  the AlmaTerra website over the weekend, while Echo poured the content of the old website into an online test version of the new site. On Monday morning, the new template was installed and the content was instantly transformed into the new website.

After a brief review, she was ready for Cellar Door Consultants to “move that bus” and transfer the domain to the new site. Branded email was also a part of the transition and within ten minutes the new website was up live and the new branded email was fully functioning and tested.

From Echo:

I for one want to thank you for such a wonderful job.  You guys are truly lifesavers! Thank you, thank you, 100 times!  I would be honored to have your name ‘cellardoors’ on any site.  You two are a fabulous team.

Thanks,
Echo

Bottom line, you don’t have to be held hostage by your web designers and content mangers. We can help you get out of web jail and easily control your own website content. Give a call we are Professional, Affordable and Understandable, We are Cellar Door Consultants.

Patty Davis Designs Prepares to Launch Website

With the assistance of Cellar Door Consultants, Patty Davis Designs is launching a new website over the next few days. On her new site visitors will have access to the most elegant designs and patterns from the creative talent at Patty Davis Designs.