Christ in the Desert Monastery

Christ in the Desert Monastery

This job had two equally important goals. First, to redesign the public website for the monastery. Second, to design and implement a database and content management system to accommodate all of the monastery’s needs for managing overnight  guest reservations, taking donations, and sending out mailings.

Website redesign for Upaya Zen Center, Santa Fe NM

Website redesign for Upaya Zen Center, Santa Fe NM

I’ve had the pleasure and good fortune of being Upaya’s webmaster since 2007, when they first asked me to modernize their system for registering visitors for meditation retreats and trainings. However it wasn’t until 2013 that we had a chance to...
Redesign for Global Ecotechnics / Biosphere 2

Redesign for Global Ecotechnics / Biosphere 2

This website was built for Global Ecotechnics Corporation – the parent company for a number of incredibly interesting projects including the Biosphere 2 — “the #3 greatest engineering achievement in the 20th Century”. It features a very nice...
Kibera Law Centre

Kibera Law Centre

The Kibera Law Centre provides free legal assistance to the poor in Kibera – the largest urban slum on the African continent. This WordPress-based website uses large photos and stories to illustrate how important it is to help improve the quality of life for the...
Breathe Free Tibet

Breathe Free Tibet

Every year, I agree to build one or two non-profit websites at a discounted rate. This year, I was especially honored to be given the opportunity to design and launch BreatheFreeTibet.org. The purpose of this organization is to “save an ancient culture from...
Podcasting website for Future Primitive

Podcasting website for Future Primitive

Joanna Harcourt-Smith has been recording her interviews with visionaries and innovators for almost five years, so the most important part of this website redesign was to reorganize her 150+ recordings into topics and collections using WordPress. This also presented...
New Donations System for Upaya.org

New Donations System for Upaya.org

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...