Google recently released a web-based tool to write your own stories as expressed in Google searches. We used it to develop a short story chronicling the birth of Chris Strom, LLC. As is oftentimes the case, our company was born from the ashes of previous companies. The ending is extrapolated into the future slightly — currently most of the people who work on our company’s contracts are independent contractors rather than salaried employees — but we’ll get to that point eventually…
Dakota Farms is a cooperative of family-owned bison and beef ranchers in several midwestern states in the US, along with several provinces in Canada. They hired us to build a consumer-facing website with information about the families on the ranches that produce their meat products, along with recipe and cooking information for bison and beef. We built the new website in the Drupal content management system. With this new site, Dakota Farms can create a page with a biography and photo collage for each of their participating ranch families, accessible to end users through a menu page listing all the participating ranch families.
A page for one of the participating ranch families
In addition, we also created a section of the website for listing various bison and beef recipes, along with cooking tips and instructions. The recipe pages are entirely jQuery-powered, with an accordion menu in the left-side dynamically updating the recipe displayed on the page, all without needing a page refresh. Since these pages are also powered by the Drupal platform, Dakota Farms can add, edit and manage recipes, images and cooking tips as easily as they can manage the pages for their participating ranch families.
The Bison Info & Recipes page
We launched the website in April. You can find the newly-launched website here: www.YourRancher.com. Come check it out!
If you’re interested in our help in building a website for your own company or organization, contact us and we will be happy to talk with you.
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