Knight News Challenge Garage
The Knight News Challenge Garage is a site where people intending to apply for a grant from the Knight News Challenge could workshop their applications, get feedback from mentors and peers, and – hopefully – improve their chances of winning some of the $5 million being granted this year by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
We designed and developed the site in 2 weeks, from wireframes to beta deployment.
Project Credits:
Creative Direction: Laura Scott
Design: Don Hajicek
Project Lead, Theming: Al Steffen
Development: Greg Hines, John Fiala
Development & Systems Administration: Andy LasdaKnight Foundation
ourbrisbane.com
ourbrisbane.com is a Brisbane-based lifestyle and tourism website that covers all aspects of living in and visiting the city. The good folks behind that effort took on the substantial task of replacing their very active and popular old website with a Drupal-powered site. Their capable developers led the entire effort.
We were brought in to provide Drupal consulting and development services, including consultation on development of a technical architecture to implement their functionality requirements by leveraging Drupal's built-in power, taking on some of the more complicated custom coding work for specific features and third-party integrations, and consulting on code optimization and deployment strategies for website performance.
Congratulations to ourbrisbane.com on the relaunch of their award-winning website!
OurBrisbane
Bikes Belong
Bikes Belong came to us with a Drupal-powered website that needed some updating and enhancing.
Bikes Belong’s mission is to put more people on bicycles by advocating federal support of bicycling, awarding grants to help create more and better places to ride, cultivate cooperation throughout the bicycle industry, and otherwise promoting bicycling to get more people riding. With their community-oriented focus for their site, Drupal was a natural choice.
And they are based in Boulder, Colorado. With clients located all around the world, it was a rare pleasure to work with such a great organization that's just down the street from our offices.
Bikes Belong
Popular Science (PopSci.com)
PopSci.com, the website for Popular Science Magazine, was a migration from a proprietary CMS to Drupal. There was a substantial amount of content we imported from Oracle, with additional imports from Typepad.
Another key component of the site is integration with several different third-party services.
Featured on the site are implementations of the node carousel module, developed for this site and contributed to the Drupal community.
Because of the website's high traffic rank, scalability was also a focus of the project.
Project Credits:
Lead Developer: Kevin Bridges
Developers: John Fiala, Greg Hines, Andy Lasda, Andy Kirkham, Greg Knaddison, Ezra Barnett Gildesgame
Theming: Al Steffen, Greg Hines, Rad Anzulovic
Web Producer: Matthew SaundersWe Blogged About This:
Popular Science
RedBlueAmerica (2nd iteration)
We recently pushed live a new iteration of RedBlueAmerica.com, with a new home page, a new layout for the blogs landing page, and custom taxonomy pages. We also added some behind-the-scenes functionality, and streamlined the theming a bit.
Project Credits:
Creative Direction: Laura Scott
Web Design: Don Hajicek
Lead Developer: Kevin Bridges
Development: John Fiala, Andy Lasda, Ben Jeavons, Ezra Barnett Gildesgame, Simon Laug
Theming: Al Steffen, Greg HinesWe Blogged About This:
Also of Interest:
- Awards: Horizon Interactive Award
RedBlueAmerica
Spectrum Magazine
Spectrum Magazine had a static website that they wanted to transform into a live magazine. Spectrum Magazine is now powered by Drupal.
We Blogged About This:
- Awards: Horizon Interactive Award
Spectrum Magazine
Stanford University Center for Internet and Society
Stanford University Law School's Center for Internet and Society needed an update of their old Moveable Type-powered site. As the spiritual birthplace of the Creative Commons (and the academic home of eminent copyright scholar Professor Lawrence Lessig), they wanted to go with an Open Source solution. They also needed to have a site that was more community oriented, with easier-to-handle content management. Drupal was the obvious choice.
We developed the site on Drupal 4.7 in fall of 2006.
Initial Development and Theming: Rich OrrisProject Credits:
Web Designer: Laura Scott
Logo Designer: Laura Scott
Drupal Development: Rich Orris, Laura Scott, Ezra Barnett GildesgameAlso of Interest:
- Awards: Horizon Interactive Award
Stanford CIS
RedBlueAmerica.com
RedBlueAmerica is a news-and-debate website we designed and developed for The E. W. Scripps Company. With some extensive use of CCK combined with some fancy theming, we developed a site where a neutral article can be displayed along with two opinionated articles -- representing the "red" and "blue" political perspectives -- that address the same topic. Also added are blogs, polls, a custom poll section called "Truth or Not?" and some less obvious features, such as private messaging.
Some particularly interesting work was coding up the custom voting widget on the main topics, which involved some custom image mapping tied in with the voting API, with some jQuery goodness thrown in for good measure.
Project Credits:
Creative Direction and Architecture: Laura Scott
Web Design: Don Hajicek
Lead Developer: Kevin Bridges
Development: Andy Lasda, Andy Kirkham, John Fiala, Ben Jeavons, Greg Hines, Ezra Barnett Gildesgame, Simon Laug
Theming: Al Steffen, Greg Hines, Rad AnzulovicWe Blogged About This:
Also of Interest:
RedBlueAmerica
Make Earth Day Every Day
Make Earth Day Every Day is a quick site we put together for Renewable Choice Energy, a company dedicated to expanding the use and availability of renewable energy. The Make Earth Day Every Day site invites people to pledge how they will work to embrace conservation and seek out clean energy alternatives.
Earth Day is all about appreciating the Earth's fragile environment and inspiring awareness of what can be done to protect it. Our partners and customers have purchased clean renewable energy as a step to improving our world. This Earth Day, commit to actions which will have quantifiably positive effects on the environment.
Although the site consists of only a few pages, we built it using Drupal and some custom code. They had the design, which we had to match exactly in the template. The multi-page forms are custom-created to work within Drupal's FAPI.
We're thrilled to be associated with this kind of endeavor.
Project Credits:
Theming: Al Steffen
Development: Greg KnaddisonMake Earth Day Every Day
Health Informatics Society of Australia
The Health Informatics Society of Australia, Ltd. required a website built on an affordable, yet flexible, content management system from which they could build up their community functions and features. Drupal seemed an ideal choice.
Project Credits:
Creative Director: Laura Scott
Web Design: Valerie Gerry
Theming: Al Steffen
Development: Ezra Barnett GildesgameAlso of Interest:
HISA
Avolent
For the Avolent site, we worked with Tristream, who came to us for Drupal consultation.
Our focus was on the downloads area, with some consulting on customizing templating approaches to get Drupal to do what their workflow mandated and display the user interface in the way they wanted. We also helped solve some bugs to get their custom code to play well with Drupal.
Avolent
Ms. JD
Ms. JD is a community website for women in law, organized by women law students at a dozen of the finest law schools in the United States.
Concerned by the rates at which women opt out of the legal profession, the lack of representation of women in the highest courts and echelons of the legal community, and the role of gender in the progression of many women’s legal careers, a group of female law students from Boalt Hall (UC Berkeley), Cornell, Georgetown, Harvard, NYU, Stanford, UCLA, UT Austin, the University of Chicago, the University of Michigan, the University of Virginia, and Yale came together and created Ms. JD. Serving women in law school and the legal profession, Ms. JD will be an online community that provides a forum for dialogue and networking among women lawyers and aspiring lawyers.
Graphic Design: Valerie Gerry
Project Credits:
Creative Direction: Laura Scott
Graphic Design: Valerie Gerry
Development: Ezra Barnett Gildesgame
Theming: Al SteffenMs. JD