Project Case Studies | Intrepid Network

Intrepid Network delivers more than visually appealing websites; we develop tailored solutions that meet our clients’ unique needs and drive measurable results. Our architecture-based approach creates functional, user-friendly front-end designs and robust content management systems, boosting SEO through strategic keyword use and performance optimization. We also craft intentional, high-quality content for our clients’ websites and marketing, ensuring it’s optimized before integration.

Custom administration features and reports are only a few clicks away. We work with our clients to deliver business-specific functionality without the limitations of canned services.

San Diego Automotive Museum

501(c)(3) Non-Profit Corporation

The San Diego Automotive Museum tells the social and technical story of motorized vehicles—collections, exhibitions, and education, including IGNITE Academy. Intrepid Network first arrived to rescue a neglected Drupal site. The relationship did not stay there. We became the museum’s marketing partner: brand system, event identities, video and YouTube, development campaigns, exhibition press and films, and photography from the floor to the track. The work sits with the CEO, COO, and Director of Development, not just the ticket queue.

San Diego Community News Group

Publisher; La Jolla Village News, Beach & Bay Press, Peninsula Beacon, San Diego Downtown News, San Diego Uptown News, La Mesa Courier, Mission Times Courier, College Times Courier, and Mission Valley News.

The San Diego Community News Group, SDNEWS, locally owned and operated, has delivered high-quality news, community voice, and storytelling since 1988. Today, they publish seven locally unique community newspapers delivered to San Diego’s central, affluent neighborhoods. SDNEWS provides free home delivery, ensuring their advertisers get the best visibility. They continue to evolve and report on what matters to the communities they serve, from print to multimedia platforms, while upholding journalistic integrity that has earned them a reputation as the papers people love to read.

Ocean Beach MainStreet Association

501(c)6 Private Nonprofit Business Organization

Intrepid Network manages the Ocean Beach MainStreet Association’s Website, YouTube Channel, AddThis account, Google Analytics, and Pinterest. Josh Utley, owner of Intrepid Network, has been on the OBMA Promotion Committee since 2009 and served as temporary Chair for 6 months during a transitional period in 2011. Intrepid Network also supports marketing efforts on OBMA’s Facebook and Twitter accounts by producing videos and providing photos. We’ve found that contributing as a local Google Guide through reviews, photos, and videos has had a significantly positive impact on the community and website traffic.

FORCE11

501(c)3 Private Nonprofit Business Organization

FORCE11 is a global community of scholars, librarians, archivists, publishers, and research funders working to make scholarly communication work as well on the web as it does on the page. Intrepid Network spent more than a year inside that community before we redesigned and built the site. The work was as much about how a moving coalition shares knowledge as it was about templates: clearer publishing workflows, better performance, and a handoff that new staff can actually use.

Imperial Beach Chamber of Commerce

Founded in 1951

Since 2012, Intrepid Network has been the long-term web partner for the Imperial Beach Chamber of Commerce and Business Improvement District. We have redesigned ib-chamber.com twice, and we continue to handle technical maintenance and monthly content so the Chamber can stay focused on members, events, and local economic vitality. The site centers on a searchable member directory. Each business has its own profile with contact details, and members can pay and renew dues online. We keep events, board minutes, and newsletters current, and the latest redesign brought a cleaner look plus a responsive layout that works on phones and desktops.

THQ

Interactive Entertainment Software Publisher

Not every project starts with a blank file. Another firm designed THQ’s site; the development team contracted Intrepid Network to implement that design on the theme layer while they owned CMS functionality. We dropped into an existing workflow—Jira, Git, writers, project managers—and translated the approved look and feel into production markup with search and performance in mind. The brief demanded precision: every pixel in its place, within a larger team’s process.

Cafe Agave

The World's First Spiked Cold Brew ~Premium Coffee~

Cafe Agave needed a WordPress site that could keep up with a growing retail footprint—and a way for customers to find which stores actually carry the product. Intrepid Network migrated the site to our Cloud Sites platform for performance and security, tightened the WordPress build, then shipped a custom plugin that talks to Cafe Agave’s VIP Brand Finder API. Shoppers enter a ZIP code and see every retailer on an interactive Google Map. We still maintain the core system underneath.

USAopoly™

Board games… with a fun, unique USAopoly™ twist.

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FSCI - FORCE11 Scholarly Communications Institute

501(c)3 Private Nonprofit Business Organization

FSCI is FORCE11’s summer institute: a week of courses that send researchers, librarians, publishers, funders, and research administrators home with skills they can use at their own institutions. Intrepid Network built FSCI a standing landing portal—modeled on the 2017 institute site, without locking the page to a single year—plus a dedicated 2018 event page, a clearer path to resources, and Google Analytics so the team could see how people actually moved through the site.

Silva Custom Builders

General Contractor

Paul Silva founded Silva Custom Builders in 2013 after more than three decades in San Diego construction and remodeling. The firm is a design/build contractor: plan with the client, then carry the job from permit to final inspection, on time and on budget. They needed an informational site that showed the work, ranked in search, and loaded quickly on a phone—often the first place a homeowner looks while standing in the room they want to change.

Lighthouse Ice Cream

Family-owned ice cream shop · Ocean Beach, San Diego

Lighthouse Ice Cream sits steps from the beach and the Ocean Beach Pier. The shop is known for a long list of flavors—shakes, malts, sundaes, splits, floats—and for the Hot Waffle Ice Cream Sandwich. Intrepid Network built its informational site, photographed the ice cream, and produced a video interview with the owner and the shop manager so the place feels like itself online: local, specific, and easy to find on a phone.

Teach N Tutor

Small Business

Teach-N-Tutor runs academic and after-school programs meant to prepare students for S.T.E.A.M. work. What began in a garage in 2005 now serves more than a thousand students a year, from Sacramento to the border, across three offices. They needed more than a brochure. Intrepid Network built a CMS with custom content types so programs, locations, and stories can be filed where they belong—and found again—without turning the site into a pile of undifferentiated pages.