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.

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!

Bellflower is the latest movie release from Oscilloscope. It’s a WordPress site with a custom theme created to Oscilloscope’s specifications. It includes special theme features that allows them to update parts of the site that needs to be dynamic, 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 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.

Meek’s Cutoff is a movie from Oscilloscope Laboratories and is the second movie site in WordPress I’ve done for them (the first was HOWL). I was able to leverage the original theme with only minor tweaks and changes to create the new site, for which Oscope provided the design. The cast page featured a custom menu (thanks to WordPress 3+), and the theaters page pulls in data from a separate database on the same server.

Longtime client JOI came to Springthistle for help with their conference website. Last year they did a conference site on their own, but this year they wanted something with a more professional touch.

Not only did they get a streamlined futuristic design, the whole site is built in WordPress, giving them plenty of flexibiilty to update and add content on their own. The presenters section is run off a custom post_type in WordPress, so the main page is auto-generated and alphabetized and each presenter gets their own page as well, which is linked to from the schedule.

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.