Creation-1

We just finished the final touches on developing a site for CASE, a Political Action Committee.  We took the designs and implemented them into our Genus Online Business Solution.  This enables the board at CASE to update the site with new information as well as control their e-commerce donation system.  We will be adding new features in the coming months and are very excited about the potential of this project.

We are ecstatic to announce the launch our most recent project for the Group Health Foundation.  The Gift of Health wall engages Group Health’s supporters by having them answer the question and post it on the wall.  We designed and developed this site for the WordPress content management system.  The client has full control over comment moderation and website management.

Alicia McLucas at IntoMyOwn.com wanted to rebrand her company and target a new demographic with her life coaching and mentoring programs.  Luckily, we developed her website in the beginning with the WordPress platform. The entire site was able to be easily updated.  We change the page titles and updated the imagery to reflect her new idea.  This is a shining example of the benefits of building a custom WordPress theme compared to working with no CMS or even other platforms.  Starting with a good foundation can save you a lot of time and money in the long run!

We just finished making a handful of fun updates to http://MilesMosley.com We added Jquery sliders to the Listen and Projects pages.  You can easily browse through the projects he is working on by category via the 4 image slider in the header.  We also developed a custom Twitter feed widget that is quite crafty!

Here’s a screenshot of the new Twitter widget design:

My Domain has been sitting parked and lonely for the past 2 years so I figured it was about time I did something about it.  I am using http://justinparra.com as a central hub linking to my online activities.   I have always been a big fan of the one page website so this was a very easy choice as far as style and concept.  I used a little bit of @font-face for the custom font embedding which I have been implementing quite often on our most recent work.

I also just started my own personal blog http://blog.Justinparra.com for mostly non work-related stuff.  Yay!

We were asked by The Seattle Chamber of Commerce to help them out with itstimeforbusiness.com . We added some new functionality for site members and also took some powerful steps to prevent spam in the members section.

Itstimeforbusiness.com is a community website by the Seattle Chamber built to engage local businesses and encourage economic recovery.

We just launched website for teens with a clean, modern design and lots of fun interactivity.  http://IntoMyOwn.com is a site for teens to share, learn, and expand their perspectives.  It features music, fitness help, and some great blog posts! This was a custom design built to work with the WordPress CMS platform.

We worked with Erica Mills and her team at Claxon Marketing to build a website and blog utilizing the Genesis Theme Framework.  Genesis is a theme “Framework” that adds plenty of useful functionality to WordPress like additional widget ready areas, customization of header and footer areas, easy to implement page templates and more.  The goal was to build something simple, to the point, and easy to use. Enjoy!

We just launched our first website in China!  Asia MTM is a business that serves as a partner for companies who want to manufacture goods in China.  It was a pleasure working with such an international company.  We designed and developed this site to be managed by Asia MTM via the WordPress CMS.  A big thank you to Russell Smith for contributing his skills to provide us with some polished site content.  Learn more about Asia MTM here.

After months of conversations, design, and some pretty intense web development we have finally released the 3rd iteration of Creation-1.com!  We are very excited to release this as part of our updated brand.  Not really a “Rebrand”, this was more of a much needed update.  We wanted to simplify the site even more, giving users what they want first (our portfolio) while still showing off some cool development features.  Jason and I have also been talking about having the blog integrate more seamlessly with the website since we have been using it more and more to reach out to new and existing clients.

Geek Stuff:

Typical brainstorming sesh at Creation-1

Our goal was to move away from Flash.  As of lately we have seen the demand for Flash development go Waaaaaay down.  This has caused the technologies we use to evolve as well.  We used jQuery for our gallery slider and accordion style animation in the nav making it compatible with most mobile devices.  In the “Contact” area we have an AJAX form with email validation as well as a little JavaScript to show our Skype and iChat status.  The PHP includes for the latest blog posts are the cherry on top of this little cupcake and the rest is just in good ol’ XHTML and CSS!

P.S. For the custom font we used font-face.  We used CA BND Bold from Cape Arcona Type Foundry in Germany. Thanks!