Z-Com Portfolio

Avnet, one of Arizona's largest employers and a Fortune 50 corporation, has been running the Avnet Tech Games for several years. Students compete in a variety of technically challenging "games" such as building robots, solar-powered devices, high-speed computers, even making marketing pitches and designing factory floors.

AAEE is the state branch of the National Association for Environmental Education. Rather than being satisfied with the national association’s turnkey website template, AAEE worked with Z-Com Creative to develop an entirely custom user experience.

University Animal Hospital is the largest and most successful veterinarian practice in Tempe and one of the longest-operating in Arizona. Owner Thomas Gus is a forward-thinking business owner who understood the value of engaging with the online community at a very early date.

Z-Com Creative has built three iterations of the UAH website over the years. This latest version is built on the Drupal platform and features extremely easy-to-use website management tools. The site’s vast content is now handled by a former technician.

Intraoperative Monitoring Services (IMS) sends technicians into neural surgery suites all over the Valley to monitor and report back on data generated during surgery. They needed a secure solution for gathering patient and case data in the field. We did that, and much more.

We started by learning all we could about IMS' business at every level: How cases are scheduled, how technicians use their technology, how their reading physicians review the materials from the case, how billing takes place.

The Animal Defense League of Arizona and Z-Com Creative are long-time friends. We love their mission and have had a close relationship with its leadership for many years. What better candidate for our proof-of-concept of our Association in a Box product?

We felt ADLA had a lot of needs common to nonprofits: a communication and organizational hub for an active membership, social media tools, a resource directory, and basically a need to work with a diverse population of users.

Nature Quest Arizona provides a database of “nature quests,” educational treasure-hunts featuring map-following games and learning opportunities. Nature Quest Arizona is a subsidiary of Be Outdoors Arizona (another Z-Com Creative nonprofit site), and is that organization’s first tangible deliverable.

Be Outdoors Arizona is a nonprofit organization dedicated to getting kids into the outdoors. It is closely affiliated with the Children and Nature Network.  The goal of this website was to create a quick and easy website presence from which we can build into the future.

Our predominant goal with Dessaules Law Group was to present a very classy, yet modern, update to the “standard law firm” website look. We started with a logo design and then turned over the template design to artist Cindy Salstone for refinement. The result is a law firm website that’s classy, clean and very modern.

Tri City East Veterinary Hospital is a full marketing package. We started with a new logo design, storefront signage and other identity materials. The conversion-driven website is the final and most important component of the package.

The SMPS website is a robust custom website solution for a trade association. Working within a very narrow budget, Z-Com Creative built a site featuring news, event registration, easy navigation and a job bank bulletin board for members. The landing page features a random slideshow of photos taken at SMPS events over the years.

SMPSArizona.org is built on a custom CMS solution and is entirely run by volunteers.

Swing Real Estate specializes in both high-end North Scottsdale homes, and commercial properties typically owned and operated by the folks who can afford those homes. Our goal with the Swing Real Estate website was to bridge that commonality and speak to the same audience on two parallel topics.

Z-Com Creative has built two websites for Brignall Construction. The first is their corporate front-end site, a relatively simple portfolio site featuring descriptions and photographs from their many hundreds of client projects. There’s also a simple news feed on the site. All content is managed by the client, via a custom-built content management system. We also set up Excel exports of the project database so the client can work with the data while pursuing bids.

Z-Com Creative can, schedule allowing, handle very small, very quick deployments like the one seen here. Sonoran Waste Disposal is a waste hauling company with a twist: They clean up construction sites and recycle what they can from the waste they pick up. Pretty cool.

Anyway, this site was built with budget in mind first and foremost. We used a nice template, did some lightweight customization, and got the site rolled out immediately. Because we built the site on the Drupal CMS, it’s easy for the client to maintain and will be easy to expand in the future.

EcoAdvantage sells a variety of home improvement items: high-grade security doors, shade screens, rolling shutters, window guards and other forms of ironwork. The founder has been in business since the mid-80s. This is the second website we have constructed for this owner; the previous was purchased in the early aughts.

Z-Com Creative started by developing the company’s logo and color palette.

Patrick Burt is an artisan jewelry sculptor in Tempe. Pat does great work but has to compete with big-name jewelers and chain operations. Z-Com Creative built a robust, searchable product catalog for Patrick Burt Studios, featuring various taggable criteria, Paypal integration, and a couple photos of each item. The catalog currently features several hundred items, all managed by the client.

Team Red Energy is a sponsored adventure race team based out of Phoenix, Arizona. Their website is part of their sponsorship strategy, as well as serving as their team's blog and photo gallery.

Pretty simple site but it's worked well for them for several years.

Gilbert Veterinary Hospital is a very successful practice based in the southeast Valley. We built their website with conversions in mind and easy maintenance by the staff. The site is built on a custom content management system (CMS).

Not a lot to say about this site, other than it’s been working well for the client for several years running.

Update, 8/23/10: After suffering a hacker attack last week, Gilbert Vet decided it was time to upgrade its site to the much, much more secure Drupal CMS.

PMIAZ.com is a very simple marketing website. Good example of simple design and a quick deployment. Not every company needs a complicated online strategy, but every company needs some kind of presence.

Tempe Preparatory Academy is a charter college prep school. Their goal was to have a forward-facing online strategy, with community (teacher and student) generated content driving most of the site. Z-Com Creative developed a robust social-media style site for TPA, which ran with limited success for about a year. We learned a lot about working with nonprofits and volunteers through this project.

Z-Com Creative did most of the marketing work for GEC up until they were purchased by Western Technologies in early 2010.