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La Prima Catering launches new online ordering system
(September, 2007) We are pleased and proud to announce that yesterday we launched the new website for La Prima Catering, a well-established catering business in the metropolitan D.C., Baltimore, and Philadelphia areas. What a beautiful site, and what a fantastic collaborative effort! Check it out at http://www.laprimacatering.com. This site reinvents the La Prima online identity, and for the first time allows La Prima guests to select items and order online. It also creates a brand new identity for the parent company La Prima Food Group. Kudos to the entire Ollie development team including Tanya (PM), Sam (design/Flash), Heidi (design/IA), Alex (code), and our new best friends at Groove Commerce who deftly navigated through the weeds of our shopping cart solution ASP.NET Storefront (dreadful product name, powerful product). Once again we have a very happy client—another Ollie success story!
Ollie Interactive wIns TWO! at ADCMW Annual Show
(May, 2007) The Art Director’s Club of Metropolitan Washington presented Ollie Interactive with awards in two categories at the 58th Annual Design Show Gala in Washington, DC. Annette Gildea and Doug Fuller won for their collaborative work on the Ollie Interactive logo, as well as for the Ollie Interactive Stationery Suite. Judging the event were Hayes Henderson (HendersonBromsteadArt), Petrula Vrontikis (Vrontikis Design Office), and Ann Willoughby (Willoughby Design Group). The gala was held at the HRC headquarters in Washington, DC.
DC law firm chooses Ollie Interactive for new website
(May, 2007) Washington, DC law firm Roylance Abrams Berdo & Goodman LLC has launched a new web presence created by Ollie Interactive. (more more more)
Annette Gildea is named to Board, Habitat for Humanity of Northern Virginia
(January, 2007) Annette Gildea, Principal and CEO of Ollie Interactive LLC, has been named to the Board of Directors for Habitat for Humanity of Northern Virginia. Annette has been active with Habitat since 2005, and in 2006 her company provided pro bono design and development services to the non-profit in order to reinvent the image of the Northern Virginia affiliate. The new site at http://www.habitatnova.org takes online donations, and allows businesses and individuals to prepare to volunteer with online registration forms.
“I am pleased and honored to be asked to serve Habitat in this capacity,” said Annette. “It’s a great thing when your talents and desire to make a difference merge so beautifully with a real need in a worthy organization. I’m also happy we will continue to provide the services of Ollie Interactive to their great mission.”
Ollie Interactive has Arrived!
(December, 2006) If you’ve known us previously as Gildea Media Group, you’re no doubt a bit surprised to find us with a new look and a new name. Ollie Interactive has been months in the making, but now that the metamorphosis is complete we think you’ll find it’s a change in the right direction. Why the name change? We wanted a name that reflected our engaging and accessible culture, and our fixation with highest-quality online design and promotion. (Get it? On Line = O.L. = Ollie!) We are also very pleased that Ollie will never be as hard to spell as Gildea, or as difficult to pronounce; a real value-add there.
Amphora Catering Website launches in time for Holiday Party Planning
(November, 2006) Amphora Catering, a division of Amphora Restaurant Group in Vienna, Virginia, launched its first website this month, just in time for the upcoming holiday season. Ollie Interactive created the site for Amphora which includes event planning solutions and menus for weddings, office parties, and social events of every size. This is the second project Ollie has created for Amphora Restaurant Group. Ollie Interactive is a fast-growing greater Washington, DC area creative web design company, providing interactive marketing, corporate branding, and full-service communications programs.
Ollie Interactive completes Amphora Bakery Gallery and Website
(October, 2006) Ollie Interactive, Reston, Virginia has created an online destination for Amphora Bakery, part of the Amphora Restaurant Group in Northern Virginia. The sophisticated interactive gallery of more than 450 special-order bakery items includes tiered pricing, complete customer options for cake varieties and customization, and order confirmation. Through this effort the staff at Amphora Bakery has realized a dramatic improvement in processing orders, reducing confusion and potential for errors. Ollie Interactive is a fast-growing greater Washington, DC area creative web design company, providing interactive marketing, corporate branding, and full-service communications programs.