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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
Our work helped The Asia Foundation earn a prestigious Non-Profit Standard of Excellence Award in the 2010 Web Marketing Association WebAwards. Congratulations to the asiafoundation.org web team including David Hirschi, Donovan Watts, and Keith Mitchell. It’s...
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...
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...
"I have been working with Canton Becker for a year and a half. He redesigned my website futureprimitive.org. This has been an enriching creative process for me. Canton really understood the feel and form I dreamed of for my website. Also his technical abilities are very satisfying to me. Beauty and function is what Canton has provided for my online project. I look forward to a long collaboration with Canton so Future Primitive can grow and prosper on the Internet. The Marion Institute who funds my work is also very pleased with Canton's expertise."