Springthistle Design » custom cms

Rutgers Genetics Faculty

asilver — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:40:25 +0000

The Department of Genetics at Rutgers University has a large faculty each of whom needs a website where they can publish their research, current lab activities, and contact information. They wanted to be able to give each faculty member a website without the cost of paying for each individual website development project.

Springthistle built them a multi-user CMS using Cake. Administrative users can create faculty users. Faculty can log in, using the same University-system-wide login they use for their other activities, and manage their websites by doing the following things:

add, edit, and re-order pages
upload and manage images and other files
change theme and website colors and fonts
choose among rollover menus
submit feedback easily from within the system
and more

Congregation B’nai Jeshurun

asilver — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:00:39 +0000

The main client-facing site is a WordPress-driven site with a plethora of custom shortcodes. It leverages the existing WordPress post objects to handle a variety of different types of content, making it easy for the synagogue staff to manage content. The site also uses some excellent plugins, some of them custom-hacked by yours truly, including CFormsII, WP-Shopping Cart, Post Expirator, and more.

The second part of the project was a custom application built with CakePHP (temporarily named BJ Forms App) that allows staff to create and manage event and event details and create new signup forms, and allows site visitors to register and pay for events.

The project was a massive undertaking that was a collaboration with Daniel of Kestin Technology who provided some of the strategizing and much of the project management. Design was provided by the client.

Quo Vadis Planners

asilver — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:34:20 +0000

Custom design for a brand-new CakePHP website
Products, Covers, Retailers, Clicks, Product Reviews and other objects handled via back-end admin panel
Product Search
News blog
Twitter and external blog posts displayed on homepage
And more…

Jewish Outreach Institute

asilver — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:30:33 +0000

Springthistle has done a number of projects for the JOI, including:

Big Tent Judaism, which is a designed and custom-built PHP website with a custom CMS to submit, manage and display Outreach Organizations, and also pulls in certain blog posts from the main JOI website,
The Mother’s Circle, which is built with PHP and a custom CMS that allows staff to add and edit pages,
The Grandparents Circle, which is a custom-designed and -built WordPress website,
JOPLIN, the Jewish Outreach Professionals Log-In Network, which includes required signup and tracks downloaded documents,
and the JOI blog, which runs on WordPress and integrate seamlessly with the pre-existing joi.org webiste.

Claudia Hommel

asilver — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 03:00:40 +0000

Singer, teacher and performer Claudia Hommel needed a brand-new website to replace her late 90′s one. She specifically needed her new site to have a fresh, sharp and elegant design, and she needed to be able to update everything herself. She had some very specific things she wanted to improve on from her old site — easy to navigate, a menu structure that allows for the addition of new things, good html to expand for a gallery, and a lot of other things. She got everything she wanted.

Wilkinson O’Grady

asilver — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 23:21:02 +0000

This global investment firm, tagline â€˜global asset management,â€™ needed a revamped website more userfriendly and flexible than their old site. Springthistle built them a brand-new from-the-ground-up custom website within a custom templating system. WO also got a custom flash animation (designed by someone within their firm) that Springthistle implemented. They also needed an admin panel where they can easily update their oft-changing prospectuses etc.

Monaco Reps

asilver — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:19:10 +0000

A custom-built CMS that they can use to manually manage all of their artists and each artist’s galleries, collections, and photographs is what we did for Monaco Reps. Collaborating with an in-house designer, Springthistle create a custom MySQL-based back-end, using php to connect. Everything, from the homepage to the galleries to the news page, is dynamic and easily changable by the client.

Park Slope Food Coop

asilver — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 17:03:54 +0000

An early-90s website needed to be redesigned and put into a format that nontechnical people could run on their own, behind the scenes. Working with a team, we created this brand-new site for the coop, with a new design, dynamic menu, and content driven by a custom CMS.

Hazon

asilver — Sun, 01 Aug 2004 18:47:59 +0000

We developed a design for this website that utilizes a randomized photograph appearing at the top (tho’ a specific photo does show up for specific sections) as well as the appropriate colors and columnar layout that the Hazon people desired. I also wrote all the structural HTML and php, and built the site in such a way that a person with relatively little knowledge of HTML and no knowledge of php can easily add pages. I also installed and customized Gallery for the photos section. For this project, I worked with a volunteer operating as project manager.

Artist April

asilver — Sun, 15 Feb 2004 17:40:06 +0000