www.FuturePrimitive.org

To extend the reach and audience for FuturePrimitive.org, the website is now connected to Facebook, Twitter and Feedburner (email) so that followers are automatically notified whenever a new episode is broadcast. Furthermore, fans can embed individual episodes as streaming audio widgets on their own websites by copying and pasting a single line of code (as is done with YouTube videos). For example, the episode you see below was embedded by inserting this single line of code:

<script src="http://futureprimitive.org/embed.php?show=142" type="text/javascript"></script>

www.mmdfrance.fr

To distinguish MMD from its competition, the goals for this redesign included:

• Becoming content-driven: Focusing attention on MMD’s 10 years of expertise by deploying a blog made up of tutorial videos, tips, and free “maps” for download
• Making the human connection: Demonstrating that MMD is operated by real and approachable people with unequaled experience in their field.
• Simplifying content management: Using WordPress, MMD can easily update nearly 100% of their website content using a web browser. Adding new training videos or products takes minutes.

This site is 100% WordPress powered, meaning that as new Earth Treasure Vases are buried, the client can edit the content, photos, videos etc. without assistance.

www.EarthTreasureVase.org

Deva Foundation

www.deva.org

I started off with this freely available WP theme. Then my client found a nice stock image of clouds on iStockPhoto.com that I converted into an ephemeral background. Finally, I popped in a new header graphic, improved the font styling (and IE compatibility) and integrated  iContact for email newsletter signups and and PayPal for ecommerce.

Ta-da! Deva Foundation’s brand new site was completed in less than 20 hours, from concept to completion.

Maria Benitez

www.MariaBenitez.com

This website for the legendary Santa Fe flamenco dancer Maria Benitez was completed in even less time by taking advantage of the excellent — and freely available –  “Yoghourt” WordPress theme.

www.gci-sf.com

GCI is a succesful San Francisco based commercial contracting / construction management firm.

Here’s how this type of study works:

1. Figure out what different messages or images you think might help to sell your product
2. Produce a prototype (fake) website that simulates purchasing that product, with variations for each message or image you want to test
3. Send users to test out each variant of the website
4. Conduct statistical analysis of users’ browsing behaviors to figure out which variation produced the best results

www.BeingWithDying.org

“The professional Training Program in Contemplative End-of-Life Care has long been dedicated to fostering a revolution in care of the dying. This unique program provides clinicians with essential tools for taking care of dying people with skill and compassion, as well as sustaining resilience and dedication as they serve others.”

The jewel of this redesign is a environmentally sensitive home page which, if left alone for 10 minutes, gets devoured by weeds, vines, bugs…

This fairly huge project included:

• SEO-friendly flash
• A wordpress diary that goes back 12 years
• A record label
• An MP3 downloads shopping cart. 

http://ottmarliebert.com

http://henshallphoto.com

This was a super-basic blog redesign for a friend and former colleague of mine. The assignment was to create a look and feel that kept his existing branding requirements (color pallette, logo) while making a new frame for his blog that would provide an elegant relief for large animated photo slideshows and sparse text.

http://beautythroughbalance.com

“I had the most wonderful experience working with Canton. He made designing my website fun and very easy. From our very first meeting, the entire process was quick, and understandable. During our work together, he taught me how to manage my website on my own which is so important for my small business.

Canton is such a great mix of many different qualities; he’s very technical, a great designer, easy to talk with and a wonderful teacher of his craft. I highly recommend his expertise to anyone!”

– Shannon Plummer, DOM

greenlining.org

I’m very pleased to announce the redesign and redeployment of greenlining.org.

Associate Director Orson Aguilar at Greenlining hired me to make a brand new website, following a look and feel sketched out by their designer. They needed a customized content management system that would make it easy for them to update their news, videos, publications, and policy initiatives. Everything needed to be database-driven, from the home page to the staff list to the news area.

Highlights

• Videos are automatically embedded and synchronized with content uploaded to YouTube™
• Images and all other content on the website can be edited using a web browser. No need to photoshop images to scale or crop them, no need to create PDF previews. It’s all done on the fly.
• PDFs, videos, and news articles are all tagged with the policy initiatives they relate to, so the policy pages stay fresh and up-to date whenever new content is added.
• Seamless integration with PHPList for the ability to send email newsletters to 1000’s of subscribers.

About the Client

The Greenlining Institute’s mission is to empower communities of color and other disadvantaged groups through multi-ethnic economic and leadership development, civil rights and anti-redlining activities. They’ve made financial institutions like the Bank of America and Wells Fargo commit to investing over $900 billion (over 10 years) to help the communities they serve.

The Solution: We decided to replace Upaya’s PayPal donation button with a dynamic funds editor that deposits donations straight into a bank account. Donors can specify what funds they want to support, and Upaya’s accountant can easily see what donations have been made each day. Try it out on upaya.org.

This is a 3.5 minute tour of the public side of this system (for making donations) and the administrative side (for managing donation campaigns and retrieving results.)

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This design was for a vendor of high-end cowboy boots in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Each of the 100+ boots was professionally photographed from five different angles so visitors could thoroughly explore each item in the collection.

You can see how the design looked when it launched in 2006 in the video below.

This design job was commissioned and later implemented (and updated) by the folks at studio x.