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.

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.

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!

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.

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!

That All May Freely Serve

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

Another successful synagogue site built with WordPress, customized up the wazoo, and easyphpcalendar handling the calendar and event listings.

As always, a custom unique design.