We’ve moved.  Packed up our desks and left Upland for the verdant office parks of Rancho Cucamonga.  The truth is, we ran out of space.  So to get some more, we moved in to a new office park that more than doubles our office space and lets us bump up the size of our photography studio.

Our New Address:
9360 Santa Anita Ave.
Suite 100
Rancho Cucamonga,
CA 91730-6151

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You’d think with an in-house photography studio, we’d be masters of Flickr.  Sadly, this has been far from the case.  But today, Mike remedied our lack of Flickr participation with a batch of behind-the-scenes photos from some of our recent projects.  You can get a brief taste from our Mike’s Hard Lemonade session below, and plenty more in our flickr gallery.

Not that long ago, we took a little detour from our usual type of work to explore our spiritual sides—by which I mean we designed the new Calvary the Brook website. We here at Echo seem to have an affinity for helping young businesses grow (maybe because we can relate so well), and we made no exception for the young Grand Terrace based church when they asked us if we’d be up for designing their website almost a year ago. We were happy to donate our time for this worthy cause and we are glad to finally see it up and running.

Kali Protectives came to us looking to build a rider component to their website.  They wanted two things - a site that would let them showcase the latest exploits of their pro riders, and a site that would let aspiring amateurs create profiles and try to convince the company that they were worthy of sponsorship.  In short, they wanted us to build a small-scale social networking site for athletes.

Today, you can see the results at kaliriders.com.  Riders can log on to the company’s website, create a profile, upload photos, bring in videos from YouTube, Myspace or Vimeo, link to their profiles on other social networking sites and post their latest race results and contest wins.  It’s a pretty full-featured site.  What you won’t see when you’re cruising through is the administrative backend that lets Kali update, administer and modify the site without much help from us.

The neat thing about this project is that we were able to create something this robust for an up-and-coming company. Take a look at any of the big action-sports brands’ websites.  You likely won’t find anything like Kali’s rider site, and you certainly won’t find anything like this that was done on such a tight budget.  Kali spent a good chunk of change to have the site built, but we were able to work with them to keep it far outside the six-figure budgets many agencies would charge for this type of custom development.

Somehow, we managed to launch a new site without mentioning it here. Gensun Casual Living is a Southern California designer and manufacturer of high-end outdoor furniture. We’ve been doing their photography and print advertising for several years, but we finally got to redo their website. You can check it out live, or take a look through the screen shots below.