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Case study · 2015 – 2022

Dealer Car Search

High-volume web design and development at scale — personally building 1,714 dealer websites, 308 custom logos, and 65 SEO packages as part of a five-person team.

RoleSenior Web Designer & Developer
Timeline2015 – 2022
PlatformWeb
StackHTML5 · SASS · JS
Dealer Car Search branding on a dealership

Overview

Dealer Car Search is a leading provider of websites for car dealerships. On a five-person web team, I strategized with clients, then designed and launched new sites while maintaining daily updates across a shared portfolio of 5,000+ active dealer websites.

The challenge

Deliver modern, on-brand, high-converting websites at volume — each dealer different — while the whole industry shifted to mobile-first, and keep quality consistent across thousands of live sites.

  • Ship polished sites fast without reinventing every build
  • Hold a consistent, modern standard across a huge live portfolio
  • Adapt each site to a different dealer brand
Responsive dealer website

Approach & process

I built reusable templates and components, set wireframes and brand direction, and shipped responsive, production-ready builds in HTML5, SASS, CSS3, Bootstrap, JavaScript, and jQuery — a repeatable system that made volume possible without sacrificing craft.

Dealer brand identity applied in the real world

The solution

A standardized, mobile-first experience that dealers could make their own — modern, fast, and consistent across the network.

Selected work

Dealer Websites

1,714 built · responsive storefronts
Responsive dealer site
Responsive storefront — desktop, tablet & mobile
Responsive dealer site
Inventory-first layout with saved search
Responsive dealer site
High-contrast performance dealer theme
Responsive dealer site
Map + inventory dashboard layout
Dealer homepage
Dealer homepage
Dealer homepage
Dealer homepage
Selected work

Logos & Brand Identity

308 designed · 18 shown
Selected work

Brand in the Wild

identity on signage, print & environment
Rolling Stock logo on office wall
Rolling Stock Specialty Auto Sales — environmental branding
ROV Motorcars signage
ROV Motorcars — exterior signage
Nationwide Imports stationery
Nationwide Imports — stationery
Selected work

SEO Packages

65 produced
SEO package tiers

Tiered SEO products that took dealers from invisible to found — built to be sold, delivered, and measured at volume.

  • Custom metadata, keyword-rich blog posts, and inventory keyword blocks
  • Google Business setup, public-review generation, and optimized About pages
  • Four tiers structured so a sales team could position value at any dealer budget
Selected work

Print & Apparel

brand extended off-screen
Patriot Motors print ad
Patriot Motors — community sponsorship print ad
Event apparel
Unlimited LJ Adventure — event apparel
Branded mug
Superior Used Auto — branded drinkware
Apparel artwork
Front/back apparel artwork
Branded cup
Patriot Motors — branded cup
Outcome

Six years, a personal body of work

On top of maintaining the shared portfolio, my personal production totals:

0Sites personally built
0Custom logos
0SEO packages

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