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

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!

Working with the Maccabee Group, Springthistle created this custom WordPress website for LOGIS (Local Government Information Systems) to their specifications on design, functionality, and use.

Their website features their list of services, each of which has a custom icon assigned to it as well as screenshots (viewable larger in lightbox effect) of their software in action.

There’s some custom javascript at work on the site as well.

This organization came to me with a very short timeline and a lot of programming needed. They already had a design and the website mostly built. Springthistle created a database and hooked up the pledge forms and ‘who pledged’ list to it. We also added reCAPTCHA to prevent spam submissions, and a secure admin area where staff can review and download data.

Created as a partner site for HOWL The Movie, this site is another very custom WordPress theme, which depends largely on a custom WordPress plugin we wrote as well.

The WordPress installation uses posts for the items on which people can vote. Items are displayed in a different random order to each person, and votes are logged via ajax, which then also takes the user to the next item on which they can vote. Votes are logged in the WordPress posts table and displayed in a grid on the stats page. We had fun coding this site!

Working with Oscilloscope Laboratories, we created this handy WordPress website for the movie HOWL with James Franco. Oscope provided the design. We implemented the entire design to their specifications, being sure to make dynamic those parts of the website they would want to update easily, like the featured image for each page, the list of publications, the embedded video preview, the list of theaters that draws data from a separate database, and the sub-menus of actors.

We also created a custom javascript module that allows the visitor to highlight a bit of the poem and share it via facebook or twitter. Custom og: tags let the selected excerpt be shared via facebook.

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.

• 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…

Worked with Mike and Jill over at The Maccabee Group to produce this mini-site for Hazelden for their Four Generations Campaign. Site features:

• WordPress-driven custom design and theme
• Custom [shortcodes] to produce some content
• Active tabs on homepage containing content from different WordPress ‘pages’
• Use of Flutter to produce templates for ‘Location’ pages
• Flash widget at top left to bring dynamism to site
• Leverage of WordPress ‘posts’ to produce ongoing list of site updates
• Multiple templates for different page types