Knight News Challenge Garage
The Knight News Challenge Garage is a site where people intending to apply for a grant from the Knight News Challenge could workshop their applications, get feedback from mentors and peers, and – hopefully – improve their chances of winning some of the $5 million being granted this year by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
We designed and developed the site in 2 weeks, from wireframes to beta deployment.
Project Credits:
Creative Direction: Laura Scott
Design: Don Hajicek
Project Lead, Theming: Al Steffen
Development: Greg Hines, John Fiala
Development & Systems Administration: Andy LasdaKnight Foundation
ourbrisbane.com
ourbrisbane.com is a Brisbane-based lifestyle and tourism website that covers all aspects of living in and visiting the city. The good folks behind that effort took on the substantial task of replacing their very active and popular old website with a Drupal-powered site. Their capable developers led the entire effort.
We were brought in to provide Drupal consulting and development services, including consultation on development of a technical architecture to implement their functionality requirements by leveraging Drupal's built-in power, taking on some of the more complicated custom coding work for specific features and third-party integrations, and consulting on code optimization and deployment strategies for website performance.
Congratulations to ourbrisbane.com on the relaunch of their award-winning website!
OurBrisbane
Bikes Belong
Bikes Belong came to us with a Drupal-powered website that needed some updating and enhancing.
Bikes Belong’s mission is to put more people on bicycles by advocating federal support of bicycling, awarding grants to help create more and better places to ride, cultivate cooperation throughout the bicycle industry, and otherwise promoting bicycling to get more people riding. With their community-oriented focus for their site, Drupal was a natural choice.
And they are based in Boulder, Colorado. With clients located all around the world, it was a rare pleasure to work with such a great organization that's just down the street from our offices.
Bikes Belong
Popular Science (PopSci.com)
PopSci.com, the website for Popular Science Magazine, was a migration from a proprietary CMS to Drupal. There was a substantial amount of content we imported from Oracle, with additional imports from Typepad.
Another key component of the site is integration with several different third-party services.
Featured on the site are implementations of the node carousel module, developed for this site and contributed to the Drupal community.
Because of the website's high traffic rank, scalability was also a focus of the project.
Project Credits:
Lead Developer: Kevin Bridges
Developers: John Fiala, Greg Hines, Andy Lasda, Andy Kirkham, Greg Knaddison, Ezra Barnett Gildesgame
Theming: Al Steffen, Greg Hines, Rad Anzulovic
Web Producer: Matthew SaundersWe Blogged About This:
Also of Interest:
Popular Science
RedBlueAmerica (2nd iteration)
We recently pushed live a new iteration of RedBlueAmerica.com, with a new home page, a new layout for the blogs landing page, and custom taxonomy pages. We also added some behind-the-scenes functionality, and streamlined the theming a bit.
Project Credits:
Creative Direction: Laura Scott
Web Design: Don Hajicek
Lead Developer: Kevin Bridges
Development: John Fiala, Andy Lasda, Ben Jeavons, Ezra Barnett Gildesgame, Simon Laug
Theming: Al Steffen, Greg HinesWe Blogged About This:
Also of Interest:
- Awards: Horizon Interactive Award
RedBlueAmerica
Spectrum Magazine
Spectrum Magazine had a static website that they wanted to transform into a live magazine. Spectrum Magazine is now powered by Drupal.
We Blogged About This:
- Awards: Horizon Interactive Award
Spectrum Magazine
Stanford University Center for Internet and Society
Stanford University Law School's Center for Internet and Society needed an update of their old Moveable Type-powered site. As the spiritual birthplace of the Creative Commons (and the academic home of eminent copyright scholar Professor Lawrence Lessig), they wanted to go with an Open Source solution. They also needed to have a site that was more community oriented, with easier-to-handle content management. Drupal was the obvious choice.
We developed the site on Drupal 4.7 in fall of 2006.
Initial Development and Theming: Rich OrrisProject Credits:
Web Designer: Laura Scott
Logo Designer: Laura Scott
Drupal Development: Rich Orris, Laura Scott, Ezra Barnett GildesgameAlso of Interest:
- Awards: Horizon Interactive Award
Stanford CIS
Classic | Opus
Classic | Opus is a new melding of two mostly-static websites. We developed some back-end functionality for their organization's intranet needs. Then we created the main website, working from their design comps to develop the functionality and theme.
Classic | Opus
Make Earth Day Every Day
Make Earth Day Every Day is a quick site we put together for Renewable Choice Energy, a company dedicated to expanding the use and availability of renewable energy. The Make Earth Day Every Day site invites people to pledge how they will work to embrace conservation and seek out clean energy alternatives.
Earth Day is all about appreciating the Earth's fragile environment and inspiring awareness of what can be done to protect it. Our partners and customers have purchased clean renewable energy as a step to improving our world. This Earth Day, commit to actions which will have quantifiably positive effects on the environment.
Although the site consists of only a few pages, we built it using Drupal and some custom code. They had the design, which we had to match exactly in the template. The multi-page forms are custom-created to work within Drupal's FAPI.
We're thrilled to be associated with this kind of endeavor.
Project Credits:
Theming: Al Steffen
Development: Greg KnaddisonMake Earth Day Every Day
World Congress on Health Informatics (WCPI) 2007
The WCPI '07 site was a quick one we put together for Health Informatics Society of Australia (whose site we're redesigning and Drupal-izing as well).
The instructions for the WCPI site were simple: They gave us a pdf brochure and said, Just make it look like this. So we did. That was fun. After all, it's not every day you get to design websites with kangaroos and wombats.
The site is running on Drupal 4.7.x. The theme is a CSS-only layout.
Project Credits:
Web Design, Development, Theming: Laura Scott
Additional Development: Rich OrrisWCPI 2007
Health Informatics Society of Australia
The Health Informatics Society of Australia, Ltd. required a website built on an affordable, yet flexible, content management system from which they could build up their community functions and features. Drupal seemed an ideal choice.
Project Credits:
Creative Director: Laura Scott
Web Design: Valerie Gerry
Theming: Al Steffen
Development: Ezra Barnett GildesgameAlso of Interest:
HISA
BlogHer
This is the 2006 BlogHer website. At the time of this screenshot (and this writing), the site is still in beta -- i.e., public but still undergoing further development and design work.
The BlogHer website itself serves as a clearinghouse of information for the 2006 BlogHer Conference itself, but it's also a vibrant online builder of community for women with its multiple daily front-page blogs about what women (and men, too) are writing about on blogs covering all kinds of topics.
The BlogHer Blogroll is the third main component -- categorized blogs whose listings are submitted by any and all who register on the site. We did some custom coding to get all those blogrolls to list the appropriate categories while paginating gracefully and linking directly to the linked sites while still tracking click-throughs. We also have forums set up, and a few other things planned.
We're proud to be sponsors of the 2006 BlogHer Conference.
Project Credits:
Web Design, Development, Theming: Laura Scott
- Awards: Horizon Interactive Award
BlogHer