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Feb 06 2020

Massive Ant Community Support – 813preps.com

Massive Ant is proud to support local youth sports. We did a ground up redesign of 813peps.com, the authority on High School baseball and other sports here in Tampa Bay. Jarrett Guthrie came to us looking to get out of the Blogger platform and into WordPress without losing the more than 500 articles the 813preps team had put together over the last few years. Our developers structured a new database coupled with a clean newspaper style redesign to give the website user an up to date, easy to navigate experience. Jarrett and his team do a ton of work, largely uncompensated because they just love baseball. To keep their cost to run the site at zero, in addition to supporting the website we also provide hosting on our dedicated server and manage the email.  Here’s wishing all student athletes a great season!

categories: news, web design & development

Aug 12 2019

New Client: Mike Evans Family Foundation

MassiveAnt is proud to announce our latest project, Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ Mike Evans Family Foundation website MikeEvansOfficial.com. Mike and Ashli Evans are quickly becoming leaders in the local Tampa Bay community with their tireless and generous efforts supporting numerous youth support groups as well as fun camps and events.

categories: news, web design & development

Feb 14 2019

Marvel’s Time Travel Is Retro Awesomeness

On a Power Mac 7200 ,circa 1995, we began this web development journey. Because the movie is set in the 90’s they developed a period piece to match the times. Our site was lot like this gif/comic sans awesomeness. What was your first website like?

Captain Marvel Official Website

categories: web design & development, web design blog

Nov 03 2017

New Website: Day 1 Sports & Entertainment

We’ve done a few sites for some of their clients, so we were eager to get to work on their own website. Day 1 Sports & Entertainment is a full service sports agency based in Atlanta. Day1 represents some very high profile NFL players, and is branching out into other professional sports as well. Like any good agency they get the best contracts for their clients but  it doesn’t stop there, they provide community outreach opportunities for their players to give back, as well as wealth management services to make sure their clients futures are secure.

The Day1 requested a website be developed that had the look and feel of the unique business environment of professional sports athletes. A bit of our WordPress movement skills were needed to showcase what these people do while highlighting a few of their players. Another fun site to work on and it’s pretty cool to see these guys at work on Sundays.

Tampa fans stay tuned… we are hard at work on Buccaneer Mike Evans’ charitable foundation website.

Day1Sports.com

categories: news, web design & development

Oct 18 2017

New Website – Baricchi Institute of Movement

About 10 years ago we did a website for a nationally known dance studio that opened a branch here in Tampa. We gave the client the option of a Flash website, one that would allow us to use some animation and music to convey the movement and mood of a ballroom dance studio. The other option was a fairly new method of building a site, a fairly new platform (CMS) that we were playing with at the time, WordPress. You see, Flash was incredibly capable for building beautiful dynamic websites, but it was very difficult for our clients to update things such as events and schedules (something a dance studio would need often). The client chose to go with the Flash site. On the up side we did a beautiful site. On the down side it wasn’t long before they needed weekly and sometimes daily updates to the site. Now there were ways to get Flash sites updated by having Flash pull from a text file (xml) but it still had to be handled by us.

This was a turning point for us,  we were smart enough (and lucky!) to see what the future held. With SEO turning away from keywords and metadata to an algorithm that relied on frequent and relevant content, and the constant problems with the monster that Flash had become, we decided to jump headfirst into developing WordPress websites.

So why are we telling you this? Well, one of the principals of this dance studio was a world champion dancer named Luca Baricchi. He remembered the site and everything we went through to get it just right. Jumping ahead to the present Luca was developing a unique approach to the techniques, training and educational methods of classical dance, and was establishing a new institute. Luca hadn’t been to the USA in some time but we were honored when he flew in from Italy, just to meet with us. He wanted the fluid and graceful feel of the Flash website but needed the infrastructure of WordPress to allow him to grow as his institute did. We always missed the freedom of design and animation that Flash served. So we’ve been sharpening our skills to marry that freedom and functionality into one site platform. We also designed a logo to match the feel of what Luca’s techniques and spatial 3 -dimensional movement..  Be sure to have a look at the results.

Baricchi Institute of Movement

categories: web design & development

Apr 24 2013

WordPress 3.6.1 Beta

WordPress development sees it’s next iteration with 3.6, beta it if you want to play, or just preview the next set of features, including improved audio/video support and a new cahced auto-save feature, never lost that in-progress post content again.

Check it out at WordPress

categories: web design & development

Jun 17 2011

Gulf Coast Jewish Family & Community Services

Preview: Gulf Coast Jewish Family & Community Services or GCJFCS presented us with a “massive” rebranding problem: take six existing, well established branches of their services, all with different branding, and house them under one umbrella.  We created a multi-site environment which allows each branch a separate control panel for content development and presentation while allowing an overall administration to the main organization.  Although the subsites are still in the process of building out their content, the main construction is complete.  We are currently developing a cohesive set of logo’s that will further tie the branches together visually.  Stay tuned…

visit: Gulf Coast Jewish Family & Community Services

categories: web design & development · tags: cms, jquery, logo, logo design, multi-site, St Petersburg, Tampa, wordpress

Jun 16 2011

Cobra Technologies

Tampa based Cobra Technologies established in 1995, is a US based consulting and software product company with expertise in content management and document capture(scan). Massive Ant completed a full website redesign as well as branding and logo update. We provided a custom content management solutions to fit their needs as well as secure client areas.

visit CobraTech.com

categories: web design & development · tags: cms, jquery, Tampa, web design, wordpress

Nov 15 2010

Archiva Images

Archiva Images images offers custom stock image portfolios for businesses looking to avoid having to customize imagery to fit their needs and avoid a generic look and feel to their marketing materials. We’ve created a customized private back end that enables graphics departments or any employee to access imagery specific to their company and have it easily available in multiple formats and sizes to suit specific needs, whether it be for corporate websites, emails, presentation, or print. Clients can batch images and save sets or email images to others directly from the website for distribution.

visit Archiva Images Custom Corporate Image Library / Photo Library of Branding Images.

categories: web design & development · tags: ecommerce, Tampa, web design, wordpress

Oct 04 2010

Classics Unzipped


Pinellas Opportunity Council, Inc., Youth Arts Corps, and Jim’s Harley Davidson, team up to foster entrepreneurial understanding in St. Petersburg, Florida’s low income students by creating a hands-on environment for students to transform their ideas into a revenue stream. Keeping a motorcycle theme, leather goods are “up-cycled” by the students who add their own styles and fashion to donated products which are then offered for sale with proceeds going back into the program.

visit Classics Unzipped

categories: web design & development · tags: cms, e-commerce, ecommerce, jquery, St Petersburg, Tampa, web design, wordpress

Sep 27 2010

Heather McAdam Professional Acting Studio

Heather McAdam, who has starred on NBC’s Sisters and Beverly Hills 90210, having coached privately for years has opened her long awaited acting studio.

Visit Heather McAdam Professional Acting Studio

categories: web design & development · tags: cms, e-commerce, web design, wordpress

Jul 10 2010

The Tortorella Family Foundation

New York Rangers Coach John Tortorella and His Wife Christine Tortorella along with their children provide needed services for children in the New York City and Tampa Bay / St.Petersburg  metropolitan areas.

visit The John & Christine Tortorella Family Foundation

categories: web design & development · tags: cms, New York, St Petersburg, Tampa, wordpress

Mar 10 2010

Independent Reporting Services

Court reporting services in Tampa, Florida.  Fully editable content management WordPress based site.  On-line appointment scheduling.

Visit IndependentReporting.net

categories: web design & development · tags: cms, Tampa, web design, wordpress

Mar 09 2010

Oasis Massage & Wellness

Oasis Massage & Wellness of Tampa, Florida

visit OasisMassageTampa.com

categories: web design & development · tags: cms, St Petersburg, Tampa, web design, wordpress

Mar 09 2010

Luca & Loraine Baricchi

Renowned two time Professional World Ballroom Dance Champions Luca & Loraine Baricchi.

visit baricchi.com

categories: web design & development · tags: cms, Tampa, web design, wordpress

Mar 08 2010

This Must Be The Band

Talking Heads Tribute Band from Chicago.  Custom calendar integration. Streampad MP3 player.

visit ThisMustBeTheBand.com

categories: web design & development · tags: chicago, cms, web design, wordpress

Sep 21 2009

Do Bugs Have Belly Buttons

Do Bugs Have Belly Buttons

Children’s book author Christine Tortorella came to us with her latest project and realized that a website can be much more than just a simple portfolio.

visit DoBugsHaveBellyButtons.com

categories: web design & development · tags: cms, web design, wordpress

Sep 21 2009

Reggie Murphy Voice Talent

reggiemurphyReggie decided it was time to update from his Flash site to WordPress to take advantage of WordPress’ search engine friendliness and ease of adding to his portfolio of demos. Whether audio only or video, Reggie now simply uploads his demos to his Youtube account then embeds them directly to his website.

visit Reggie Murphy Voiceovers

categories: web design & development · tags: cms, video, web design, wordpress

Sep 21 2009

Eric Higgs – Sculptor

higgsClean and out of the way is how we design for our fine art clients, it’s the artisits work we’re showing off, not ours.  Eric required a functional intuitive interface design that could handle the variety of projects in his portfolio.

visit EricHiggs.com

categories: web design & development · tags: actionscript, cms, flash, Tampa, web design

Sep 21 2009

YouthArtsCorp.org

youth arts corpsThe Youth Arts Corps is a free youth development, arts education and job training program .  The Corps offers three after-school and summer arts education programs, provides arts activities at a number of residential, recreational and juvenile justice facilities in Pinellas, Hillsborough and Manatee counties, and offers training and technical assistance in youth arts program development and implementation.

We provided a WordPress CMS that provides custom user roles for administration and students to allow the students to essentially control their own content with the oversight of the administration.

visit YouthArtsCorps.org

categories: web design & development · tags: cms, St Petersburg, Tampa, web design, wordpress

Sep 21 2009

Geoform.net

geoform.netA unique site for Geometric artists.  Geoform.net is a highly interactive database driven Flash™ website that displays a random array of artists images and interviews while allowing for infinite search options and listings.  A Flashâ„¢ based custom CMS was created for Geoform driven by XML files generated from a custom FileMakerâ„¢ application.  Handling infinite images and an immense amount of data while presenting a clean user friendly website was the goal set by Geoform, we’ve been told we beat that goal.

visit Geoform.net

categories: web design & development · tags: actionscript, cms, flash, web design

Aug 27 2009

Alex McKnight – Photography

alex

Alex requested a database driven Flash® site that he could manage.  We created a custom FileMaker interface that allows him to edit and export a single xml file.

visit AMcKnight.com

categories: web design & development · tags: web design

Aug 27 2009

Papy Saygbay Voice Talent

papy

voiceover talent, DJ, and sound engineer ,Papy Saygbay.

visit PapyOnAir.com

categories: web design & development · tags: actionscript, flash, web design

Aug 22 2009

Grain Pictures

grain

Grain Pictures needed a simple way to display their work that would allow for them to easily self incorporate their work. The sites administration panel enables them to quickly embed video from their HD Vimeo account.

visit Grain-Pictures.com

categories: web design & development · tags: cms, video, web design, wordpress

Aug 22 2009

Diggin’ In The Crates (ditc radio)

ditc

Syndicated Radio show Diggin’ In The Crates (ditc radio) has a new home. Live chat while they’re on the air, video galleries, podcasts, survey’s and more, they’re “diggin'” it.

visit ditcRadio.com

categories: web design & development · tags: cms, web design, wordpress

Aug 22 2009

Outings & Adventures

Tampa’s premiere on-line alternative lifestyle community.
Looking for an alternative, that did not exist, to the same old bar scene and technology’s proliferation of stunted communication through way too many on-line hook up sites, founder Robert Geller, with the support of his dear friends (Lisa, Rani, Brian & Travis) set out to create a new social norm…Outings & Adventures, the new place for fun. Facebook integration, event planning softwatre, e-commerce for events as well as products, this site has all the bells and whistles. UPDATE: O&A is now smartphone enabled for Iphone, Android, and more!

visit OutingsAndAdventures.com

categories: web design & development · tags: cms, e-commerce, ecommerce, iphone, smartphone, St Petersburg, Tampa, web design, wordpress

Aug 21 2009

KimUchiyama.com

kim

another database driven Flash® site for New York artist, Kim Uchiyama

visit KimUchiyama.com

categories: web design & development · tags: actionscript, flash, web design