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YOXI

asilver — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 19:35:38 +0000

Was brought into the YOXI project by Jaki at Arrow Root. The client supplied all of the designs and required me to build a fully-functional and flexible WordPress them, customized to their needs. It’s not WordPress MU – just has some special user templates, as well as a wicket Theme Options page that lets the client customize a lot of the css, pitch, and video information easily.

The YOXI pilot project was publicized in GOOD.is.

Evernote Blogcast

asilver — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:19:45 +0000

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.

SSDSA

asilver — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:57:02 +0000

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!

TAMFS

asilver — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:07:45 +0000

That All May Freely Serve

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…

Four Generations

asilver — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:16:48 +0000

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

Leah Hoffmann

asilver — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 21:24:11 +0000

Leah Hoffmann, a writer based in New York City with home Springthistle often collaborates, needed a new website where she could direct people to learn about her science and technology writing specialty. Springthistle designed and built this to Leah’s specifications.

Congregation Rodeph Sholom

asilver — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 02:31:46 +0000

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.