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...
Aware Pilates: Single page style website redesign
Aware Pilates Santa Fe required a simple site to let students know what kinds of classes it offered. One interesting technique for websites with only a few pages is to have the entire website content accessible from a single long-scrolling home page. This site is...
Mobile responsive website design for Reology.org
Here’s how Reology’s founders Jake and Hannah Eagle introduce their philosophy: Imagine a practice where every time you speak you bring yourself to the present moment, become more conscious, wake yourself up, take command of your life, and experience more...
Redesign for food policy expert Mark Winne
Food will be the biggest challenge of the 21st century. Will you be ready? Mark Winne is an expert in “food security”, helping communities organize themselves to control how they grow and purchase their food. The purpose of this quick WordPress website...
Marketing Site for Laurie Staub
This WordPress website was designed to highlight Laurie Stuabs long career in international marketing and executive management.
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
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...
How to change the width of an automatic WordPress embed
One of the superb things about WordPress is that it will automatically convert YouTube URLs into embeds (as well as URLs pointing to Vimeo, Flickr, Hulu etc.) For example, the video you see embedded on this post was supplied from within the WordPress post editor like...
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...
Website Redesign for Unity Woods Yoga
Unity Woods Yoga hired me to design and build a modern website for their four yoga studio locations in the Washington DC area. The client is able to edit 100% of the pages on the website using WordPress, including all homepage content, instructor bios and the blog....
The Asia Foundation wins Non-Profit Standard of Excellence Award
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...
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...
Tutorial: How to crop images within WordPress
WordPress is great for resizing the resolution and file size of images you upload using its editor. If you upload a huge 3000 x 2000 pixel 8MB digital camera snapshot, WordPress will do the work to reduce the image to a web-friendly 600 x 400 pixel 100KB file. And now...“Agile design and just getting it out there”
This morning, a friend and client of mine emailed me regarding the work we’re doing to get his new website built: I interest myself in how the structure of our site will influence our behavior … As the website design develops, so does my clarity. It’s...Client Feedback
"I would not hesitate to recommend Canton for web design and development. He's been the one I've turned to for years when it came time to get sites built for my own business. Canton is sharp and asks thoughtful questions that others may ignore or not oven think to ask. He produces excellent quality work, combined with a desire to truly help create the best product possible. It has been a pleasure working with such a talented developer."
- Donovan Watts
User Experience Researcher
AnswerLab