With the need to recruit hundreds of qualified new teachers, the Calgary Board of Education turned to Strut to develop a comprehensive advertising campaign, recruiting microsite, job fair displays and an iPod promotional giveaway to attract potential recruits.

Calgary Board of Education Recruiting

Online and on-target

Whether you need a basic corporate overview, an engaging interactive marketing tool, or a web application that becomes an invaluable part of your business work-flow, we can design and build it for you.

Our approach to web design emphasizes usability, search-ability, and most importantly conveying your messages with impact.

  • Simple Marketing Sites
  • Database-driven Functionality
  • Custom Content Management Systems (CMS)
  • Full Web Applications
  • Intranets / Extranets / eLearning Systems
  • Rich AJAX Interfaces
  • PHP/MySQL, .net, Flash
 

Calgary Board of Education

Microsite for recruiting with employment application system and custom database

The Calgary Board of Education is one of North America’s leading school systems. With the unprecedented growth of the community, the CBE is also one of the world’s fastest growing school boards.

Faced with attracting approximately 500 new teachers a year over the next few years, the CBE turned to Strut creative to build a comprehensive recruiting campaign, featuring a microsite devoted to selling the benefits of teaching, and capturing the 5000 applications they receive each year.


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Ear Candy

Flash-based web site

Ear Candy is a recording studio and an audio ?post-production facility run by one of the top composers in Calgary. Their primary client-base ?is advertising agencies and film production companies. Ear Candy needed to find a way to stand out among other long-established studios.
Strut’s Solution
Strut designed, wrote and produced a website designed specifically to appeal to this market. Emphasis was placed on creating a dynamic, visually-rich environment. Audio was used to demonstrate how important an effective musical score and sound design are to any production. Demo videos and sound clips were integrated ?into the Flash files, allowing viewers to see and hear the samples without worrying about video playback compatibility.

Ear Candy is a recording studio and an audio post-production facility run by one of the top composers in Calgary. Their primary client-base is advertising agencies and film production companies. 

Strut developed a high-impact web site to help them stand out among other long-established studios. Emphasis was placed on creating a dynamic, visually-rich environment. Audio was used to demonstrate how important an effective musical score and sound design are to any production.


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Go2 - Active Living Initiative

Web site with full content management system

GO2 is an active living initiative launched in June 2006 by a consortium of government and not-for-profit groups in order to encourage Calgarians of all ages and abilities to engage in active lifestyles.

Strut created a family-friendly web site was developed to motivate and inform Calgarians about physical activity. The web site was designed to present physical activity options, information on a wide variety of activities for all seasons and levels of physical fitness, as well as tips for children and adults.


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Experiential Events

Web site with news content management system.

Experiential Events is a high-end event management company, having won many of the world's top honours in the event planning industry.

Strut crafted a brand around their ability to create memorable experiences. Strut developed the Experiential Events web site using rich, high-impact images for each sense: taste, sound, sight, touch, and smell.

Canadian Institute of Natural & Integrative Medicine

Web-based Learning System for Teen Depression

The Canadian Institute of Natural and Integrative Medicine (CINIM) is a registered charitable organization that conducts scientific research in complementary/alternative medicine. CINIM worked with a wide variety of psychologists, councilors and other health care providers to develop a program to treat teen depression.

Strut developed a comprehensive online learning system which presents 80 modules of video and text-based material over an 8 week period, and which facilitates interaction between young participants.

MuchMusic / Doritos

Flash-based microsite

For the launch of their new chip flavour, Doritos developed a promotion asking consumers to name the flavour and submit their own television ads promoting it.

To support their on-air cross-promotion with MuchMusic, Strut developed a Flash-based "DoritosPiece Theatre" microsite to solicit submissions from MuchMusic viewers, and to show off some of the many viewer created spots.

CAWST

Web site with full content management system and registration system

The Centre for Affordable Water and Sanitation Technology (CAWST) is a humanitarian NGO that provides technical training, consulting and acts as a centre of expertise in water and sanitation for developing countries and the poor.

Strut designed a simple web site based on an open-source content management system. The site is designed to be accessible to low-bandwidth users and to various levels of literacy. A custom course registration back-end was developed by Strut to handle the large number of training program registrations which were previously processed manually.


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Ear Candy

Ear Tunes project management and archives

As one of Western Canada’s top audio-post facilities, Ear Candy works for a wide variety of advertising agencies and film production companies, producing thousands of audio files for dozens of clients each year.

Strut developed a web application which allows Ear Candy staff to manage projects using a simple web interface, and which stores and organizes final mix tracks associated with every project. Clients can use the system to find, listen to, and download project files.

Strut designed a comprehensive database-driven web application which stores and organizes final mix tracks associated with every project.
Clients use a rich interface to find, listen to, and download project files, and a simple web interface allows Ear Candy staff to manage projects and upload files.


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