Functionality

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.