Posts Tagged ‘Web Development’
Center for Global Strategies
Another great collaboration between myself and my associates at Mindflint Media was launched today: the Center for Global Strategies. CGS is an organization focused on bringing tolerance, understanding, and proper global economies among different cultures specifically in Africa, East Asia and the Middle East.
This great organization contacted us for a custom design, animated slideshow and map of initiatives and integration into the WordPress content management system for easy updates and blogs entries.
Yet another slick site for another great cause- cheers guys!
Kimberly Jonas.com
Part of a slew of web launches this week, KimberlyJonas.com is finally unveiled! Kimberly Jonas is an entrepreneur, yoga instructor, and writer who focuses on personal growth.
Kimberly Jonas.com was developed to market Kimberly’s unique style, expertise and focus on personal growth. Working with an existing unique Illustrator design from Kimberly’s designer, a custom theme for the WordPress platform was developed to enable her to have a large amount of control over her content while simultaneously getting the exact branded look and feel she desired.
This theme utilizes her unique brand, provided designs and features a number of custom plugins to accomplish the final product.
Lookin’ sharp!
Website Management
After doing some work designing “template” concepts for use with data-driven websites for my associates at STF Enterprises, I decided to research some more of the top open-source (freebie) website management systems.
Recently I’ve been marketing a lot of sites built on the WordPress platform, which is great for the majority of my clients who really just want a simple “point and click” method to update their own sites. I’ve become a huge fan and have come up with a lot of great “out-of-the-box” ideas using that platform, but this month I’m expanding into a broader scope: Joomla.
Joomla, while not as intuitive as WordPress, gives users greater ability to manage individual “modules” within their site, manage a wider spread of editable content and data, and have larger sets of individual users with a range of permissions to affect their info.
Interested in hearing more? Contact me today!
Wow, after updating and reviewing my project management system organIZE, it looks like I have eight open projects this month. Given most of these are mini-sites, design jobs, and small e-commerce solutions but it sure is nice to have a variety of customers and projects to work with. Its my continuing goal to keep a wide range of business interests as well as a wide range of services that can help my customers’ businesses succeed!
I’m continuing to offer the same great service at rediculously quick turn-around time:
- Customer Edit-able content driven websites (and hosting/security)
- Simple-to-use e-commerce solutions (and accompanying payment systems)
- Branding and Designs of all sorts
- Custom solutions for existing/out-of-box softwares
- Numerous website accessories and mini-marketing ideas
Feel free to give me a ring or email me if you want to jump on the bandwagon and a get a great web solution!
I had an interesting chat with Eric Nance and Neil Corman, associates of mine and members of IndieArsenal, during our happy hour meeting last week regarding making some improvements to the IA website. They had a great idea of adding a map that lists upcoming events with a visual indicator of priority and a member listing that lets the viewer sort members by their businesses.
I dig it! While I’ve only done really basic work with Google maps before, I think this should be a snap with some fancy AJAX work. I’ve begun a prototype of it already and plan to continue doing work on it this week. So far I’ve been impressed with the ease-of-use of all of Google’s APIs (despite the stereo-instruction-like documentation).
Later I’m going to set it up as a plugin for ExpressionEngine (their content management system) to re-use the existing user data from the IndieArsenal website. Stay tuned- We’ll post it as soon as I’m done!
Acoustic Eidolon
Purveyors of unique acoustic sounds – Eidolon, and their contractor, Barnaby and Associates contacted me to use an existing design to integrate into WordPress and to build a new store-front.
Using a series of hand-made PHP/mySQL plugins, Eidolon gains a unique look and feel using Flash elements and still maintains the ability to independently update their content. A from-scratch shopping cart system allows them to manage their albums and merch via a simple admin tool while taking automated credit card orders.
The long awaited launch occured this weekend and I think the results speak for themselves. Well done everyone!
Mountain High Water
Today I launched a refitted site for my associates Mountain High Water. Mountain High offers quality products for large scale water purification (like for lakes, parks and golf courses). Eager to make updates to their website as business has grown, I recommended an upgrade to allow the site to run off a content management platform in order to ease their ability to keep their content up-to-date.
This version of the site features some new Flash highlights, better usability organization, more SEO friendly perma-linking, and a brand new cost-savings calculator. Lookin’ smooth, guys!
My client, Mortgage Training Institute recently launched our latest collaboration: a new pure CSS site marketing their new product LivePresenter, a top-of-line yet inexpensive product that streamlines online video presentations.
MTI: LivePresenter
Designed and developed by yours truly, the LivePresenter site was built for marketing and search engine efficiency. Along with creating a series of hand-crafted logos and icons, I also developed a media player in Silverlight 2.0 to showcase customer testimonials. I also designed layouts for their nifty back-end toolset that allows users to manage their online presentations.
Great product + great collaboration = great results! Congrats, guys.
I launched the site for Development Foundation International a few weeks ago and must say both the client and I are pretty satisfied with the results. DFI is an international organization that helps people in underpriveledged countries get eye care. Nothing’s better than doing a project for client who has a really cool cause!
DFI Site
DFI ended up being a custom WordPress site. I designed a custom skin based on imagery provided from them on their last mission to Lebanon and developed several plugins to ensure the site was exactly the way they liked it.
Finally, I’m pleased to announce they’re doing fairly well on search engine indexing (at least on google). You’d be surprised how much competition the words “international, development, foundation” get. Cheers guys!