We worked with Cady Carnes on a brand new site for Pitter Platters, her independently-run ceramics store. Pitter Platters sells one of a kind personalized gifts. Ms. Carnes had no website and wanted to affordably expand her reach to customers. Working off her sketches on paper, we created a WordPress site that met her goals of being simple, navigable, and budget-friendly.
While Cady’s fifty hand-made ornament product photos were beautifully shot, we painstakingly resized each product photo in order to create a gallery and shopping cart.
For the project, we:
- Searched for an affordable, easy to maintain shopping cart that would allow for detailed product customization and chose the WordPress eStore Plugin, allowing for multi-level personalization with customizable order (year, name, message, etc.)
- Created an animated GIF that properly displays product slideshow for all browsing devices (E.g., iPhone)
- Added interface with social networking button
- Added a calendar feature for client to announce her upcoming shows online
- Created a Pitter Platters PayPal account through which various shipping rates are automatically calculated during checkout
- Used NextGen gallery to display products
- Optimized the site for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and analytics
The client had her design ideas on paper as sketches, so we were pleased to work with our Design Partner, Cindy Erni, who created a Photoshop layout from which we modeled the site.
Project budget: $
Conversations Journal, A Forum for Authentic Transformation, wisely chose award winning Metaleap Design to help them design a new print publication and website. In turn, Metaleap Design selected us to help build the website components of the relaunch.
The project highlights include:
- Complete website build using WordPress as a Content Management System.
- Extensive use of WordPress custom fields and meta data to control workflow and purchase information.
- Implementation of bbPress forum.
- Integration with Mal’s ecommerce shopping cart.
- Custom jquery slider for featured Articles.
- Bespoke training to enable the client to maintain the site and create new Journal Issues.
We were honored to be a part of this project.
Project Budget: $$$
We worked with Michael Schulder, a Senior Executive Producer at CNN and a frequent contributor to Anderson Cooper’s CNN site AC360.com: News and Commentary Direct from the AC360º Newsroom, to create, 50on50. Leading up to his 50th birthday, Schulder launched the site to examine the myth that the most valuable segment of the audience for advertisers to reach is between the ages of 18 and 49.
For the project, we:
- Created a WordPress blog site.
- Developed a custom featured post slider bar.
- Added subscription services and generated a newsletter for subscribers.
- Maintained the site content.
- Optimized the site for Search Engine Optimization (SEO).
The award-winning team at Metaleap Design, who we also worked with on the Conversations Journal project, created the logo/brand development for 50on50.
Project Budget: $
24XPS is Brooklyn-based freelance writer Steve Dollar’s blog about all things cinematic.
Our creative partner, Susan Archie of WorldofAnarchie created the logo/brand for 24XPS. We assisted with the WordPress bits of the project. The result is a great example of taking a free WordPress theme, Arthemia, and adding a personal brand to create a professional, budget friendly site. The site also includes Ads and links to the author’s social networking profiles.
The client’s reaction:
Take 2 Digital was rad!
Project Budget: $
SplendidVid is an Atlanta based media production company founded by three former CNN-ers. We worked with SplendidVid to build a website showcasing the individual work of each of the founders as well as their collective talents as a new media production company.
The project highlights include:
- Logo brand development – For the project, we teamed up with our creative partner, Susan Archie of WorldofAnarchie to develop a brand for the new company.
- Complete website creation using WordPress as a Content Management System.
- Ability to embed videos from Blip.tv or YouTube.
- Blip.tv configuration to include SplendidVid branded player.
- Individual blog set-up for each of the three principle owners.
- Links to Social Media sites.
- Creation of company email and ftp sites.
- Search Engine Optimization (SEO).
- Training to enable the client to maintain the site themselves.
We enjoyed working with the company so much that we decided to partner up with them to offer content services for our clients who need assistance writing, producing and editing website copy and video.
Project Budget: $$
