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Willow Creek
Dexters

Build a powerful and gorgeous website to grow an audience around Dexter cattle and sustainable farming

THE OVERVIEW

Project

15+ Page Website, Blog Intensive, Branding, Logo Design & Custom CMS

Skills Applied

Graphic Design, Website Design, Information Architecture, SEO Optimization, Hosting, Custom Backend

Time

1 Month
For the Finished Product

THE CHALLENGE

Make a customizable backend that our clients at Willow Creek Dexters can easily navigate and add custom content to, without compromising the overall art direction of the website. Taking special interest in the family's values as a whole was just as important, so their natural personalities could come through to the user.

SETTING THE MOOD

We started with many possible art directions for such a fun and unique website. Once we paid more homage to the land itself, while really focusing on the words Quality, Heritage and Sustainability, we found our true path. We believe we successfully encompassed what Willow Creek Dexters represents.

Five tablets showing the Willow Creek Dexters site: about, the Irish Dexter, the blog, and two cattle-for-sale pages

HIGHLIGHTING CURRENT
EVENTS

When it comes to selling cattle and other livestock, the Jacksons chose to keep things simpler than a full e-commerce site. They still wanted easy access as a client to update the availability of animals. With so many things moving on a farmstead all the time, we wanted to make sure the Jacksons had a good user experience to broadcast and show off all the fun things going on in REAL time.

The Willow Creek Dexters blog, a long column of recipe and farmstead articles
The A2A2 milk page, explaining the herd's genetics and available stock

CUSTOM LOGO & GRAPHICS

We had our in-house graphic designer go loose on creating unique and beautiful icons to compliment our “hand-drawn” feel throughout the site, creating a cohesive flow of the same inspired hand.

Hand-built brand marks for the farmstead: a grass-fed beef stamp, an Original seal, an A2 gene badge and a Dexter cow silhouette

FINAL PRODUCT

An extremely user and business friendly website that will continue to grow as the family does, with an established and unique brand in the world of farmsteads. We also have a very happy family that can't wait to keep a wide audience entertained and very knowledgeable about Dexter Cattle.

The finished site on a desktop display and an iPhone, showing the Happy Buyers of Our Herd gallery