When a company grows from 0 to 100 in less than a year, how do you build an online presence quickly?

One of the challenges for Marathon is that the corporation is still very young (and yet very large). The company has been wildly successful, and concentrating on the business has been the overriding priority. As a freshman company, Marathon’s image was undefined and finding it has proved to be a difficult process.

Marathon hired a 3rd party design firm to build marketing materials, but asked ForeSite to design the web site (but requested that the site be based on the look of the marketing materials). I suggested that we start simple and proactively build (or rebuild) the site as the requirements arose.

The Intranet

Possibly more important than an external marketing web site, was the need for a company intranet to share information across eight locations and hundreds of employees. Although we could have picked an off-the-shelf solution, it seemed as though none fit the requirements, particularly the idea of simplicity.

Expanding on original ideas I had built for Skinovative, the team at ForeSite built a custom intranet solution.

Responsibilities

I was responsible for all the front-end graphic design, XHTML construction, Flash development, and JavaScript programming. Additionally I wrote a significant amount of the PHP code.

Visit the Marathon Healthcare web site

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