- We keep domain name renewal and hosting amazingly affordable. Our yearly fees covering hosting and domain registration are lower than any other company offering comparable services.
- We give our clients the tools to keep their website updated. We're available if a client needs something new or different or doesn't want to update their own site, but we set everything up so the client can easily do the site updating.
- We specialize in smart organization. If the organization of the site is right, the upkeep's a breeze and well within the owners abilities!
- We don't use templates. We strive to make each site unique to the client, not a copy of someone else's site.
- We practice "slim coding". No extraneous bulk or fat, no unnecessarily repeated coding. We aim for fast loading sites in the smallest footprint possible.
- We never bill for our learning curve. While we've done a lot of interesting things, new stuff is always around the corner. If you want something we haven't done, we'll figure it out on our time, not yours.
We've found the best course for us, and those who use our service, is an OfficeElf built owner maintained site. Owner maintainance save the client money. An OfficeElf coded site has the best of everything, truly reflects the needs of the owner and is easy to maintain. We take on the technical challenges, leaving our clients to do the part they do best, the content! That's the OfficeElf goal, an attractive, functional and affordable site. Just ask our clients!
Here are a few of our current clients. Please notice no two sites look alike. Each site is unique and reflects the needs, desires and personality of the owner(s).
Each title and screen shot is linked to the site it references. Please feel free to visit our clients!
Gilcrest Farm is a combined driving training facility in South Carolina.
The Gilcrest Farm website has an updated look and improved navigation and loading, helping the owner realize savings on maintenance and hosting.
- Popup windows
- SSI footer files
I've been extremely happy with "Office Elf" from the day I moved my site over to them about 5 years ago. Nori & Mindy have always been very easy to work with even though I am computer challenged! They make it easy for me to make changes to my site. Updates are done quickly and are very reasonably priced. All my questions and e-mails are always answered promptly. Thanks, Elves you're the greatest! Renie Gillis
Glycerin Gardens is a novelty soap manufacturer. The website features the full line of product, viewable by all. For access to the shopping cart and pricing information, vendor login is required. Vendors are approved by the site owner after completing an online registration form.
The product and pricing information is supplied from an online database.
- MySQL database generated content
- PHP and PHP menu
- Vendor registration and login
- Product presentation based on security level
- Shopping cart (restricted to authorized retail clients)
Glycerin Gardens/Soapie Ponies web sites had its beginnings in January, 2004. Nori asked me what I wanted and was so patient with me as I struggled to figure that out.
Grass Mountain Farm is a small privately owned farm in Washington state. The owners use the site as a showcase for the site owner's driving, a place to list items or animals for sale and a location for the event calendar for other Northwest drivers.
- HTML
- PHP/MySQL menus and content
- Photo Gallery
- Calendar info is pulled from another site
I have had the pleasure of having OfficeElf establish and monitor my website for many years. They have always done a very thorough job, and are quite conscientious about the 'little' things I look for when I visit other sites; ie. misspelling, punctuation and alignment. They have always followed through quickly when I have come up with any concerns. Thank you, OfficeElf, you make my job and my business run so much easier!
Mickey Lofgren, Grass Mountain Farm
Michel-Christen Marine Surveyors are accredited marine surveyors who do damage loss assessments for the insurers of marine vessels.
The MCMS site is a tool for insurance adjustors, featuring simple divs layout with popup windows and multi-sort data.
Retaining the OfficeElf crew to setup and manage our website has been one of the best business decisions we have made. Our business is very dependent upon maintaining a professional and active website. OfficeElf has provided extremely prompt service, accurate advice, terrific suggestions and a secure site for our business over many years. The OfficeElf “white-glove” level of service is most difficult to find in the current business environment. Because OfficeElf has a very low turn-over in staff, there is no time wasted getting up to speed when a change needs to be made or a problem needs correction. The frosting for the cake are the OfficeElf extremely competitive rates. Highly recommended.
Jane Christen, AMS, CMI
Michel & Christen Marine Surveyors, Inc.
Shelton, WA
Twin Cities Sertoma supports the community through supporting underprivileged children and providing hearing aids to those who cannot afford them. Their site uses our club template, which incorporates online membership, photo gallery and electronic newsletter scripts.
Best price, best work, best organizational concept.
Gabe Toma
Online shop, workshop and class calendar, online registration and payment for classes and workshops as well as the artist's portfolio. The site uses php/mysql.
This site is fully managed by the site owner through an integrated Admin panel and has a number of unique features.
- Menu items can be added or subtracted by site owner.
- Database generated content and site text are managed by the site owner.
- Thumbnail presentation leads to individual items with navigation between individual items, all generated from the database.
- Linked month-at-a-glance calendar shows workshops and class starts.
"The scripting for this site ROCKS! Go to Jewelry and click on Box Series. Click on a thumbnail. Navigation is produced automatically. The same script works everywhere. Very cool. Gen can add categories and they're automatically added to the menu. She can add items and they're automatically included in the thumbnails and navigation. Very cool."
Caber Farm is a commercial equine facility which offers training, schooling and two and three day combined training events.
The website provides information about the facility as well as competitor information and event results.
Ride times and event results are php/mysql database driven from data uploaded by the event secretary.
- SSI menu and footer files
- PHP and PHP menu
- Online volunteer registration and confirmation
The Dr. Henry Boyd Memorial CDE site is for a Combined Driving Event established in 2003.
The Henry Boyd CDE site is a wordpress site which provides information to anyone interested in this event.
Lincoln Creek Events is a riding and driving facility which puts on combined training and combined driving events. The site contains online forms and schedules, and post-event results.
The event menu is php driven based on date and database record content.
- The calendar of events is created from the Events database table. This same table is used to produce the individual events information on the menu as appropriate.
- Before the event, the Entry Form appears on the menu IF the entry form has been uploaded AND the current date is before the closing date.
- After the closing date, Ride Times appears on the menu IF ride times have been uploaded AND the event isn't over.
- After the event, Event Results appears on the menu IF event results have been uploaded.
- After 30 days, the event is no longer displayed on the menu.
The site has an OfficeElf admin allowing full control of the events listing, upload of pdf files for ride times, etc. and full control of the site content.
Rainy Daze Quilt Guild is a 501(3)(c) organization supporting Lewis County, Washington.
The RDQG site tracks members, community commitments, fund raising efforts and Guild activities using php and a MySQL database.
- MySQL generated content
- Online Calendar with data entry utility
- Online membership roster (access restricted to active members)
- Online members photo gallery with image upload utility (upload utility restricted to active members)
- Online newsletter and newsletter index (archive) (access restricted to active members)
- CSS menu and layout
- Full admin utility so membership, photo gallery, calendar and newsletter can be managed by club members
Surveyor’s Lexicon is a php/mysql database driven searchable dictionary/encyclopedia of more than 2000 marine terms. This utility is intended for use by marine surveyors.
- MySQL generated content
- PHP and PHP menu
- Search utility
- Input and image upload utility
Oblate and Prolate Elliptical Gore Development paper.
- PHP menu
Camptown Harness is a harness manufacturer with an online store. The site features mysql generated content, a shopping cart and full admin to allow the site owner to manage the site content.
The Lamphere's documentary on the original plans for a passive solar monolithic barrel vault home.
Wordpress blog site for the Lamphere’s newest house plans.
Bolender Horse Park in Silvercreek Washington is a training and events facility. The website is a rewrite of another designer's work and is redesigned to provide the site owner with complete control of the website content which includes event calendar and photo galleries.
This site uses our new photo gallery scheme and a custom calendar display.
Wordpress site for Nori's quilting, gardening and pets.
Wordpress site using the new beta version of WP which includes a menu facility for pages. The format is a custom flexible width template.
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