Client: Dead River Coffee
Date: November 2010 – November 2019
Task: Web Design, Front-end Development, CMS, E-Commerce, Web Hosting
Discover my work with Dead River Coffee
At Middle Ear Media, I had the pleasure of working with Dead River Coffee, a big city coffee shop located in downtown Marquette, on the quiet shores of Lake Superior. The company custom roasts a wide selection of fine Arabica coffees sourced from exotic locales around the world.
Web Design and Front-end Development
The goal of the project was to create an online presence for Dead River Coffee, making their fresh roasted coffee beans available to the world at the click of a button. To achieve this, I designed and developed a website that is not only visually appealing but also easy to navigate, with a stark minimalist intention and a purposeful simplicity that invokes a simpler time. The color scheme consists of only black, gray, and cream, the background is a textured cream color, and the logo at the top is the same logo they use to stamp on a plain brown bag before filling it with the coffee beans of your choice.
E-Commerce
The website features a fully functioning and fully integrated e-commerce platform, allowing customers to easily browse and purchase Dead River’s Coffee selection.
CMS
The website was built on a CMS (Content Management System) which allows the staff at Dead River Coffee to easily update and manage the website’s content, including updating product offerings and managing orders.
Web Hosting
I also provided web hosting services to Dead River Coffee, ensuring that the website is always accessible and running smoothly.
I am proud to have had the opportunity to work with Dead River Coffee, and help them to establish an online presence, expand their customer base, and make their delicious coffee available to the world.
Client Testimonial
We at Dead River Coffee called on Obadiah at Middle Ear Media for a web design consult after looking over a number of locally owned web sites and asking for the opinions of people we trust. The experience of working together has been good to say the least.
Our requests of Middle Ear Media were both very specific and very vague. All were handled with aplomb and grace. When a request could not be fulfilled within the confines of the budget or the state of the art, the reasons were explained and alternatives suggested to accomplish the desired goal or effect.
We asked for a fully functional web site we could “grow into” and alter to fit as we polished our skills. Middle Ear Media provided us with what we wanted, well within our budget, and has followed up with help and suggestions as we move along.
Marquette, Michigan
Theo McCracken
Dead River Coffee