Launched the new theme for the MonacoReps blog, Look Here Blog. Working with an in-house designer, Springthistle built this new theme. It works smoothly with the existing posts from the old theme of course, and also adds a number of theme options to allow the designer to change the look of the blog – header image and colors – at any time.

The new Hazon website went live today. Springthistle did all of the hands-on work of design and coding, but worked closed with Kestin Technology solutions for strategy and general decision-making. The old Hazon website, which we built a dog’s age ago, had outgrown its original skin and was becoming unwieldy. The new site, built in WordPress with a custom theme, is sleek, dynamic, and can expand in any direction the Hazonniks see fit. We built the theme with a passal of custom shortcodes, javascript, and php functions to make it super flexible and easy to make layouts beautiful. Take a look!

We collaborated with Rich Content to create this beautiful and functional website.

It features a rich sidebar of social media on the homepage along with a custom image slider and three separate blog feeds. There are custom plugins and shortcodes, including ones that allow for tabs, lightboxed videos, a fancy donation form, and more.

Holy Blossom Temple and Rich Content also bear the unique distinction of being Springthistle Design’s first Canadian customers!

Mamash is a very new organization aimed at bringing Jews together outside of a synagogue context. They needed a new website, affordably and quickly. Working from a pre-existing theme and with a designer, they came to Springthistle to do implementation and customizations.

ECPAT, which is an organization that advocates for ending child prostitution and trafficking, has been in existence for a long time. However, their had an all-flash website that was impossible to update and had no SEO (Search Engine Optimization).

Springthistle created a new website, with a new design, and in WordPress. There’s a lot of custom functionality, custom shortcodes and more packed into this theme.

Originally built in 2004, this website got a major overhaul in 2010, with a new design, updated WordPress blog, and colorbox overlays everywhere. It still has the same custom cms built in 2004, back before WordPress offered custom post types. Ah, the old days. Some day, when she’s got time, this whole site needs to be converted to WordPress.

This wonderful organization tries to educate people about and connect people with fair trade judaica products like menorahs, candlesticks, yarmulkes, etc. For their website, they needed to be able to manage a number of different types of objects and the relationships between them – products, artisans who make the projects, Fair Trade Organizations who represent the artisans.

After creating a custom design and theme based on their logo, Springthistle gave FTJ a powerful WordPress website using all of the latest 3.0 developments, like custom menus and unique post_types. The FTJ staff can add and edit all of the page, post, artisan, product, and fto content easily, including uploading and managing images, meta data, and more.

The homepage features a custom rotating set of features, gently fading images of artisans, and more. There’s also a theme settings page that lets the staff control all other aspects of the site on their own.

TE Studio is an architecture and green building company located in Minneapolis, MN. Their old website was beautiful, but run by flash, making it inflexible and difficult to update. TE staff provided us with a new design, and we implemented it, staying true to the original specifications.

Each section of the site has a custom color, which the client can control through the WordPress back-end, the main menu utilizes the WordPress 3.0 menu feature. There’s also a custom contact form that submits via ajax, and a jquery lightbox effect is in place in the portfolio. All of this is built, of course, in WordPress with a custom theme coded by Springthistle, and the client can control all aspects of the site through theme options and plugin settings.

Evernote came to me with their theme already fully designed and asked me to implement it into a theme. It has a number of special features:

• Featured posts – there are grabbed based on the ‘featured’ tag and displayed as you see here.
• Search results – instead of the standard search results, these grab a thumbnail of the image associated with the post (or a default image, if required) and use a special, shorter excerpt.
• Customized AddThis – using the AddThis service, but 100% customized for Evernote
• Tree-display for comments – this was mostly a feat of careful css programming, but also required entirely customizing the WordPress output of comments. Strategy explained here.

The SSDSA’s website runs on WordPress and has the following partial list of features:

• Rotating images, larger on the homepage, smaller on internal pages, showing the colorful diversity of people and activities as SSDSA schools
• Dynamic Announcement and Events listing which update automatically on the homepage and in custom widgets in the sidebar
• RSS feeds of both Announcements and Events
• Password Protected pages containing proprietary MaToK information for enrolled teachers only
• Many custom plugins and shortcodes on the back-end to make additional data-management easy
• And more!