Canton Becker » E-commerce

New Donations System for Upaya.org

Canton — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:02:31 +0000

The Challenge: The Upaya Institute relies on donations to support a variety of projects, and using PayPal for donations has turned out to be expensive and difficult to track. Upaya needs to be able quickly manage and prioritize a list of funds, and make it easier for donors to make contributions.

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.

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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.)

Ottmar’s “Scent of Light”

Canton — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 23:36:10 +0000

Long-time client and friend Ottmar Liebert just released a beautiful new album of guitar music. It hits stores next week, but the music can be previewed and downloaded as of today from the ListeningLounge — a custom-built mp3 store I set up for him a couple of years ago.

Each of these ten instrumentals draws a picture, and each picture tells a story. It’s music as a smell that triggers unexpected memories. India, 1978… Granada, 1992… each track has a strong atmosphere of time and place, like the journal of an itinerant poet or painter.

More from Ottmar’s diary…

Back At The Ranch Cowboy Boots

Canton — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:34:15 +0000

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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.

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