Using audits to drive change, Mechanics Bank launched with a new CMS and an improved design that follows web best practices. Find out how. 

Our Work

We don’t just build sites. We solve problems. Here are some of the problems we’ve helped our project partners solve.

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A CMS Migration with an Added Design Audit: The Best of Both Worlds

Website migration takes time, patience, and good communication. To be efficient while migrating Mechanics Bank to Optimizely, Blend also highlighted areas where design could be improved. 

Moving a Bank from Design to Umbraco Implementation

Western State Bank had a design that needed to be implemented within Umbraco. Thankfully, that’s exactly what Blend was able to help them do.

Responsive Tables Help Customers Compare Accounts

Tables, while seemingly simple, can be difficult to implement — especially when it comes to mobile widths. For SELCO, Blend helped develop a table option that worked at both full-width and on mobile.

Partnering Toward a Fresh New Credit Union Design

Relationships matter, especially in the world of federal credit unions. Thankfully, partnerships are what we specialize in at Blend — and it was a partnership with SELCO that led to a fresh, beautiful new site.

Providing a Usable and Accessible Banking Experience

To some, a bank’s front door is the website, which means the website needs to be as inclusive as the building itself.

Deep Integration of Fund Data: An Always Moving Target

Displaying fund data requires a heavily regulated system of disclaimers, historic records, and always changing numbers.

Implementation of Partner Provided Design

Implementation of vendor-provided graphic design to help improve customer experience.

More than a Lift and Shift: Moving Dozens of Sites onto Optimizely

A project in process, we are helping move dozens of sites for a major investment firm onto Optimizely.

Understanding the Ecosystem: Documentation of People and Apps

An onsite exercise in alignment, our governance and taxonomy workshop helped present a big picture look at internal communication.

Moving from Custom to Episerver

Sometimes the work Blend does goes unseen, and that’s by design. Which is exactly the case with our recent forklift of Builder Finance’s move to Episerver (now Optimizely).

Who we work with.

We’re very specific in the systems we partner with. And we’re very specific in who we recommend YOU work with. Which means you can be sure that you’re getting exactly the right solution — enterprise, open-source, .NET, integrations — for your project.

Optimizely

As a Gold Partner and past Partner of the Year, we have a long track record of successful projects with Optimizely (formerly Episerver).

Umbraco

As one of Umbraco's Gold Partners, we have both consulted on and developed for Umbraco, the "Friendly" CMS.

SiteImprove

Blend is an official implementation and sales partner of SiteImprove.