Caorda News
Sometimes it's a good thing to toot your own horn when you've got good stuff going on. If we don't toot it ... who else will? Read below to see what we've been up to.
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August 16, 2010 – Caorda launches two new websites
First Island Financial and Ocean Promotion were recently launched. Both websites were Caorda redesign and CMS implementation projects. Just having a web site online isn’t good enough anymore, you have to have one that looks great and catches your audiences.
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First Island Financial was established in 1973. First Island Financial Services Ltd. is Victoria's pre-eminent lender for projects involving land acquisition, development and residential and commercial construction. By providing interim financing to property developers and builders in British Columbia and Alberta, they achieve higher-than-average rates of interest for our investors. Check out their new website.
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Ocean promotion is a family owned promotional products company in Victoria, BC. They have on-premises art and digitizing departments as well as high-output screen-printing and embroidery equipment. These promotional product services are available in-house to guarantee thesuperior quality and timely service you deserve. Check out their new website.
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Learn more about web site redesign packages for your web site.
June 12, 2010 – Caorda and Islands Trust
Caorda is excited to be providing ColdFusion & SQL support and development for Islands Trust’s public web sites and private intranet. Both the Islands Trust and Islands Trust Fund web sites will also be getting a complete design makeover. Protecting and preserving the unique ecosystems of BC’s Gulf Islands is the mandate of Islands Trust and by maintaining their current website and Intranet, Caorda hopes to contribute to the cause. We are ecstatic to be working with Islands Trust!
May 14, 2010 - Caorda WINS 2010 VIATeC Online Strategy of the Year Award
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2010 VIATeC Award. Photo Copyright VIATeC.
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Paul Johnston (President) accepting the 2010 VIATeC Award
for Online Strategy of the Year. Photo Copyright VIATeC.
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Caorda won the Online Strategy of the Year at last night’s VIATeC awards. This is a great award and a great accomplishment that we all share. It is very exciting to get some recognition from our peers in the tech community in Victoria.
Caorda is a fantastic and extremely talented team and we have demonstrated our abilities on the many diverse projects we work on each day. This award shows that our existing clients made a solid decision when choosing Caorda as their vendor.
For the Olympic School Web Project Caorda helped to accomplish among other goals:
470% growth in membership to over 65,000 members
2700% growth in web site traffic
175,000 visitors to the web site in February 2010
Project Overview
The Canadian Olympic Committee hoped to leverage the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games to increase web traffic and program membership. COC selected Caorda in 2008 to design, develop and host the new web site.
The Challenge
In 2008, the existing web site was basic and on a restrictive platform. The site was hidden from search engines and required users to login to access any content. COC wanted a vendor to synthesize their vision and goals into a successful online education portal promoting Olympic values.
The Solution
Overall solution included: creative design, wire-framing, custom web development, secure Canadian hosting, streaming videos, multi-lingual content management system with interactive polling, and search engine optimization.
You can read the Olympic School Web Project Case Study here.
April 13, 2010 - Caorda Selected as Finalist for 2010 VIATeC Online Strategy of the Year Award
Caorda was selected today as a finalist for the 2010 VIATeC Online Strategy of the Year Award. Caorda is being recognized for its work on the Canadian Olympic School web site project. The award recognizes the best online strategy implemented by or for a Greater Victoria organisation. Caorda assisted the Canadian Olympic Committee execute its online strategy to grow it membership from 14,000 to over 65,000. The web site experienced a 2700% growth in web traffic with over 175,000 visitors to the web site in February 2010.
Stay tuned as the winner will be announced at the VIATeC Awards Gala on Thursday May 13th at the Victoria Conference Centre.
April 5, 2010 - Caorda Content Version 3.5 is Released
Caorda is excited to announce the release of its newly updated Content Management System: Caorda Content Version 3.5. We simplified, beautified and enhanced Caorda Content to ensure a more comfortable user experience. It is always on our minds to improve our services so we gladly took your comments and combined them with our developers creativity to develop an improved product.
New & Updated Features include:
- Insert YouTube Videos - easily insert YouTube videos into your web site content.
- Image Editing Tool – built-in image editor for making the simplest changes to your uploaded image, including cropping, resizing, flipping, rotating and changes to opacity.
- Custom Colours - include custom colours in the background and foreground colour palettes.
- Permissions Report - a new report display that shows user permissions for each page for authoring, editing and publishing.
- New Redirection Capabilities
- Per-Language SEO Options
- Enhanced Callout Previewing
- Miscellaneous SEO Enhancements & Bug Fixes
and more...
What's new in Caorda Content v3.5? Contact us for a demo of this new version.
March 27, 2010 - Flood Waters rise at Caorda Head Office
Caorda head office flooded over the weekend from a cracked toilet tank. The building security noticed the water streaming out the front door and leaking through the floor into the parking garage at 10:15pm Friday. Paul and Lorne were called and arrived to the office to find up to 3" of water in some areas and all but 2 offices flooded. 3 hours later the water was shut off, swept out the front & back doors and all standing water was shop vac'd up. The restoration company fired up the fans and de-humidifers on Saturday and the recovery effort was well under way. The good news is that Caorda hosted services were unaffected by the flood. The bad news is no one will ever feel safe leaving their house or office again without shutting off the water supply to their toilets, especially if you have a Crane!!
February 25, 2010 - Caorda Announces a New Job Posting
As our company expands, there is a great new opportunity to join our team. We're pleased to announce a new position for a Systems Engineer! See our Careers page for more information.
February 23, 2010 - Caorda guides Canadian Olympic School to record growth
The Canadian Olympic School Program with 355% growth in web site visitors and 244% growth in membership in the lead up to the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games.
Caorda Web Solutions worked closely with the Canadian Olympic Committee to design and develop a compelling web site to showcase the Olympic School Program with free lesson plans, polls, contests and other interactive components. With the excitement of the Olympic Games building over the past few months, students and teachers flocked to the web site in January. Membership increased from 18,000 individuals to over 62,000 in January alone. The Canadian Olympic School Program was also recognized with the Coca-Cola Live Positively Award, for impacting local Canadian communities. “Caorda is proud to have helped the COC communicate its values of fairness, excellence, leadership, respect, physical activity and sustainability to students across Canada”, says Caorda president, Paul Johnston.
Read the Full Media Release (PDF)
More about COSP Web Project
January 29, 2010 - Caorda extends services to meet growing demand for search engine marketing
We are pleased to announce the extension of services to meet increasing demand for search engine marketing with the addition of internet marketing specialist Kristjan Butler to in-house staff. Given the evolving small- and medium-sized business environment with more commerce and communication moving online, Caorda has recognized the need of clients for search engine marketing services in an increasingly competitive online market. Kristjan Butler brings over 10 years experience in onlines sales and marketing and has been added to the team to enable Caorda clients to reach their sales goals by promoting their businesses on the web more effectively.
Read the Full Media Release (PDF)
Read Kristjan Butler's Profile
More about Caorda SEO Services
January 25, 2010 - Caorda launches the new Pedal Sport website
We launched a new website today for Pedal Sport - a tandem bike specialist located over in Chilliwack, BC. PedalSport has been supplying high quality bikes and service since 1992. This website with it's crisp and clean design provides all the neccessary information you need to know about tandems, and inspires you to enjoy the great outdoors! Check it out at http://www.pedalsport.com .
January 13, 2010 - Caorda is working with the City of Colwood
Caorda is proud to be working with the City of Colwood and RBC to produce a website for the Pay it Forward program which recognizes good deeds by youths in Colwood. You can read the article here: http://www.bclocalnews.com/news/81380807.html .
January 1, 2010 - Caorda wishes you a Happy New Year!
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