Featured Website Design and Development Work. We combine insightful business strategy, attractive design, user-centered interactivity and powerful functionality to create great websites for our clients and their users.
Miyamoto International
Miyamoto Engineering came to us with a problem: their new site had been in production for over a year, and yet was nowhere near ready to launch. We worked closely with their new marketing team, and in less than six weeks, designed, developed and launched an entirely new site showcasing their incredible work and expert services.
View ProjectMiyamoto International
Sutter Health - My Life Stages
Sutter Health's My Life Stages website provides women and their families with tools to maintain active and healthy lifestyles. Blue River's strategic consulting, information architecture, graphic design and template development services led to a highly attractive and successful project outcome.
View ProjectSutter Health - My Life Stages
Amtrak California
The AmtrakCalifornia.com website provides information about train and bus travel in California, showcasing popular destinations, station locations, schedules and more. Blue River created the user experience, and implemented the site using Mura CMS. Blue River provides ongoing support for the site, including an upcoming mobile version.
View ProjectAmtrak California
Alta Bates Medical Group
Blue River designed, developed and launched this site for Alta Bates Medical Group. Our Mura CMS provides an easy to use interface for website updates, and we developed several custom features for ABMG, including a "Find a Doctor" feature, secure login-based Physician's Extranet, and much more.
View ProjectAlta Bates Medical Group
Contra Costa Health Services
Blue River provided the Contra Costa Health Services web team with a full redesign of their intranet site. We performed a wide range of user research, and from these findings, created a user-centered web experience, with a focus on usability and clear navigation structures.
View ProjectContra Costa Health Services
Lifekind
Lifekind is a manufacturer of organic sleep and personal care products in California. Blue River provided information architecture and graphic design services to redesign the Lifekind web presence to accurately reflect their brand attributes and product quality on their new eCommerce web site.
View ProjectLifekind
California Restaurant Association
The California Restaurant Association is one of California's largest and oldest associations, with over 20,000 members. Blue River led a project to create a site tailored to the needs of their members, while implementing Mura CMS for site-wide content management capabilities. We integrated the website with several back-end systems, including a member database, eCommerce system and more.
View ProjectCalifornia Restaurant Association
Regional Council of Rural Counties
The Regional Council of Rural Counties is a 30 county strong member sevice organization that champions policies on behalf of California's rural communities. Blue River redesigned and developed RCRCnet.org (using Mura CMS, of course) to provide both informative content and interactive areas that allows site members to take action on issues that are important to their communities.
View ProjectRegional Council of Rural Counties
California Building Industry Association
View ProjectCalifornia Building Industry Association
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- May 31, 2011
- City of Cincinnati selects Blue River and Mura CMS
After a long and thorough evaluation process, the City of Cincinnati has selected Mura CMS to power the City's public-facing websites. Consisting of hundreds of thousands of pages, the City of Cincinnati's websites will be redesigned and re-launched with Mura CMS providing powerful and easy-to-use Content Management capabilities to the City's hundreds of content administrators.
Blue River will be providing a range of professional services and Mura CMS support to the City as they convert their sites to Mura CMS.
- Jan 18, 2012
- We're Hiring! - Project Manager
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Jan 18, 2012
We're Hiring! - Project Manager
Project Manager
We are currently looking for a talented, organized and experienced project manager to add to our professional services team. Please read the description below and if you have what it takes, send your resume and project experience to careers [at] blueriver.com.
Position Description
As a project manager, you are both an advocate for the client and our firm. In this role, you are responsible for ensuring delivery of each project that is on-time, on-budget and meets the client’s expectations. You will be expected to manage multiple projects at one time with varying timelines, budgets and scope. This is a challenging but gratifying position that requires a hard working, experienced individual that is willing to go the extra mile for our firm and our clients.Position Duties
- Meeting with clients and project stakeholders to define project requirements
- Collaborating with the internal team to define project approach and deliverables
- Creating and maintaining detailed project schedules using Merlin software
- Scheduling and facilitating ongoing status meetings with internal resources
- Scheduling and facilitating ongoing status meetings with project stakeholders
- Managing internal resources assigned to your projects
- Coordinating and managing external resources (sub-contractors)
- Communicating project status, budget and concerns to management on a regular basis
- Facilitating change management on each project
- Providing project documentation in the form of...
- Project Schedule
- Project Requirements
- Functional Specifications
- Training/User Documentation
- Ensuring client satisfaction throughout the entire project.
Candidate Requirements
The ideal candidate will meet the following requirements.- 3 year minimum managing large-scale web development projects
- Understanding of the web development lifecycle
- Outstanding organizational skills
- Outstanding communication skills
- Ability to manage multiple projects at one time
- Experience managing local and remote teams
- Experience working with Content Management Systems a plus
- Strategic planning and Information Architecture experience a plus
- Jan 18, 2012
- We're Hiring! - Front End Developer
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Jan 18, 2012
We're Hiring! - Front End Developer
Front End Developer
We are currently looking for a talented front end developer to add to our professional services team. Please read the description below and if you have what it takes, send your resume and project experience to careers [at] blueriver.com.
Candidate Requirements
Ideal candidates will possess the following requirements.
- Minimum 3 years developing web sites and front end templates
- Deep understanding of HTML, CSS, HTML5, CSS3 and jQuery
- Experience with content management systems
- Understanding of mobile template development practices
- Adobe Creative Suite mastery
- Javascript mastery is a plus
- Mura CMS and CFML knowledge or experience is a plus
- Oct 18, 2011
- California Professional Firefighters site by Blue River wins national award (again)
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Oct 18, 2011
California Professional Firefighters site by Blue River wins national award (again)
CPF.org recently was awarded “best affiliate web site” in the annual International Association of Fire Fighters Media Awards. These awards are independently judged by media experts and outside members of the news media and include sites from all 50 states and Canada. It’s the 2nd time in four years that the site has won the top award.
- May 31, 2011
- City of Cincinnati selects Blue River and Mura CMS
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May 31, 2011
City of Cincinnati selects Blue River and Mura CMS
After a long and thorough evaluation process, the City of Cincinnati has selected Mura CMS to power the City's public-facing websites. Consisting of hundreds of thousands of pages, the City of Cincinnati's websites will be redesigned and re-launched with Mura CMS providing powerful and easy-to-use Content Management capabilities to the City's hundreds of content administrators.
Blue River will be providing a range of professional services and Mura CMS support to the City as they convert their sites to Mura CMS.
- May 18, 2011
- Site Launch: Miyamoto International
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May 18, 2011
Site Launch: Miyamoto International
Blue River is proud to announce the launch of the redesigned MiyamotoInternational.com website today. Completed in an incredibly quick 7-week design-to-launch process, the new site showcases Miyamoto International's engineering expertise and vital earthquake relief efforts.
Powered by our Mura CMS (of course), the new site contains a overview of projects completed by Miyamoto International, a newsroom with archives and video features, information about their world-wide locations (with Google Maps integration), and many more features.
We're delighted to be working with a firm that performs such top-quality work, and also assists with disaster relief (and prevention of future problems through improvements in engineering).
- May 18, 2011
- More Intel Projects for Blue River
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May 18, 2011
More Intel Projects for Blue River
Intel Corporation has engaged Blue River to provide enhancements and support for multiple internally-facing Mura CMS sites. Per Intel's request, we cannot share details about these projects, but we can say that these sites provide information and functionality for Intel employees world-wide, and Blue River provided Information Architecture, Graphic Design and and Website Development services in the creation of these sites.
Intel Corporation has used Mura CMS since 2007, and Blue River is proud to count them among our list of satisfied clients.
- May 13, 2011
- Cloud-Based Mura CMS Hosting Now Available
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May 13, 2011
Cloud-Based Mura CMS Hosting Now Available
One of the top requests over the years has been a recommendation for Mura CMS hosting. And we couldn't be more happy we now have a resounding answer for that question:
We are now offering Mura CMS Hosting at www.murahosting.com.
We've partnered with GoWest Hosting to provide high performance, cloud-based hosting from the people that know Mura CMS best — us! GoWest has been providing hosting services for the ColdFusion/CFML community for the last decade and have a track record of providing service that is second to none. We've worked closely with them to create a shared hosting solution that simplifies deploying and maintaining sites in Mura CMS. MuraHosting.com is a great solution for small business, blogs, non-profits, freelance projects, personal sites, and much, much more. Learn More about Mura Shared Hosting
- May 12, 2011
- Grant Shepert of Meld Solutions Joins the Blue River Team
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May 12, 2011
Grant Shepert of Meld Solutions Joins the Blue River Team
We are delighted to announce that Grant Shepert of Meld Solutions is joining the Blue River team. If you've been active in the Mura CMS community at all over the last few years, Grant's name will be a familiar one. Grant was one of the earliest community adopters of Mura CMS and has spent the last few years developing plugins and consulting for Mura CMS as the founder of Meld Solutions. His contributions include Meld Forums, Meld Gallery, Meld miniCommerce, a Google SiteMaps plugin and several others.
Grant will be performing a key role at Blue River as an application developer, trainer and contributor to Mura CMS. However, beginning July 1st, Grant will become the head of our new European office based in London, England. We have provided support and training to European clients from our US offices, but now will have a physical presence in Europe, making it much easier for us to provide convenient, prompt responses for our European clients!
In addition to being a great guy to work with, Grant knows Mura CMS like few others. We're very, very excited to say the least. Welcome to the team, Grant!
- May 3, 2011
- Blue River begins engagement with Procter & Gamble
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May 3, 2011
Blue River begins engagement with Procter & Gamble
Blue River is pleased to begin working with Procter & Gamble on a new, internally-focused website project. The project details can't be shared due to privacy concerns, but we can say that Blue River will be providing information architecture, graphic design and website development services. The new site will be launched on Blue River's Mura CMS platform, providing Procter & Gamble with a powerful, easy-to-use toolkit for website publishing and maintenance.
This is Blue River's first engagement with Procter & Gamble; we're looking forward to a long and fruitful partnership.
- Apr 20, 2011
- Announcing MuraCon 2011 - August 25th and 26th in Sacramento, CA
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Apr 20, 2011
Announcing MuraCon 2011 - August 25th and 26th in Sacramento, CA
Blue River is proud to announce MuraCon 2011, the first ever Mura CMS user's conference. MuraCon will feature presentations and talks by top developers from the Mura CMS world, showing off the latest developments and the newest features in Mura CMS.
MuraCon 2011 will be held in Sacramento, California at the Drexel University campus in downtown Sacramento. Special deals are available for attendees at the Embassy Suites hotel located just across the street from Drexel University.
At MuraCon you can connect with the Mura CMS community, and learn how you can harness the power of the world's top CFML content management system. Learn more about Mura Con on the GetMura.com website.
- Feb 2, 2011
- Mura CMS 5.4 Available!
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Feb 2, 2011
Mura CMS 5.4 Available!
We're proud to announce the availability of Mura CMS 5.4. This release is faster, easier to use, and has dozens of new features and functionalities, including Site Bundles, Change Sets, new Themes, Mobile-optimized templates, performance improvements and much, much more.
Mura CMS is used by leading organizations like Apple, Inc., Intel Corporation, the US Senate, the European Environmental Bureau, CSX, Schneider Electric, and the US Environmental Protection Agency for its powerful, easy-to-use content management capabilities.
Open-source and free, Mura CMS provides enterprise-class features and performance at a price point any organization can afford. Learn more at www.getmura.com.
