Hudsonville Ice Cream Website

Hudsonville Ice Cream Polar Bear It’s one of the projects that finally goes live and you can barely believe everyone in the world can now see everything you’ve been working on for the past 320 hours.

Tonight at 7:20pm I turned HudsonvilleIceCream.com site live for friends and families every where.

The project was done along-side the guys at The Image Group and is hosted on the Elevator Up web servers.

As for the site itself - there are a few cool things you should pay attention too. The first is the Ice Cream Locator that was developed for people trying to find good ice cream in their area.

The second thing is the Quick Survey - not very cool you say? If you fill it out you’ll get a free half gallon of your favorite Hudsonville Ice Cream. Make sure to fill it out honestly though. False entries will be removed.

The last really cool thing (really there are many more) is not even on the site yet now live. The How to Make Ice Cream section which is pretty close to the Ben & Jerry’s video if you’re looking to compare.

Oh - one last thing (there are just so many). RSS feeds are available for both the News section and the Hudsonville Ice Cream Recipes section. I developed this mostly for myself but if you’re into this - you’ll love it. Can you see the similarities?

So take a bit to look around and let me know what you think!

posted on December 9, 2004 | 8:06 PM EST

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alan Says:

Congrats on the launch! The locator is cool ;-)

[You never know who might be reading your blog, eh.]

Posted at: December 10, 2004 2:11 AM

Bill Creswell Says:

Unbelievable - how does the front page image load so fast?!

Nice job!

Posted at: December 10, 2004 7:16 AM

Bill Creswell Says:

Makes me want ice cream!

Posted at: December 10, 2004 7:22 AM

Aaron Schaap Says:

Alan - Cool, I didn’t know you visited my site. Haha - you really do never know.

Bill - The homepage was done with a lot of CSS and and saving the photo at a really low res. I have to really give it to the CSS though.

Posted at: December 10, 2004 9:34 AM

Aaron Schaap Says:

I should note that Alan and his sweet team helped us develop the Ice Cream Locator. Amazing work man.

Posted at: December 10, 2004 9:36 AM

cooper Says:

My nearest Hudsonville location is 480.08 miles away. Oh no! The history page and the “how it’s made” page were great ideas. I like being informed. Good job.

Posted at: December 10, 2004 10:59 AM

Aaron Schaap Says:

Oh man Cooper - I’ll have to get some and send it out to ya. As for the “How Ice Cream is made” - check back in a couple days for the full featured video - it’s going to be sweet.

I’ll more than likely have another post about pushing that live as well.

Posted at: December 10, 2004 11:44 AM

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