http://californiawild.org
California Wild Heritage Campaign
Launched May 2008
Benefits for the Client
- Mondo Design Upgrade. CaliforniaWild.org was sorely in need of a design overhaul, from graphics to UI. The site hadn’t received any deisgn love since before the millennium, so we had a blank canvas - daunting and exciting. Project Manager and driving force behind the new site, Sam Goldman, hunted down an SF local (and friend of his) to lead us into visual completitude. Jonathan’s Motzkin’s design was perfect - simple, clean, and inviting. And a fabulous use of whitespace! - you can tell even from his personal home page that the guy has a talent for
http://SelfishGiving.com
Joe Waters
Launched May 2008
Benefits for the Client
- Professional, clean, handsome design. The collaborative effort between Joe and I resulted in what I think is a polished, efficient UI, and branding that captures the double-edged nature of cause marketing. I only wish I had the illustrative chops of the WSJ to come up with this (sent to me by Joe after we launched).
- Wordpress-fu. Now at version 2.5, WP is probably one of the the most user-friendly and powerful CMS options available, giving Joe total user control managing site content. And at no cost, we immediately reduced Joe’s monthly
http://EnsembleCapital.com
Launched March 2007
Sean Stannard-Stockton became a big Wordpress fan after we transitioned his blog Tactical Philanthropy from Typepad. He was so impressed he decided to migrate his company’s site from Joomla after being fed up with a “less intuitive” content management platform. A little CSS-fu and the site template was migrated successfully, retaining near-exact graphical layout to the Joomla version.
Benefits for the Client
- Increased ease of use by switching to more appropriate, and familiar, content management system (CMS).
- Enhanced search engine optimization (SEO) by replacing image-based design with text links.
