We’re building a new ecommerce environment for the Shambhala.com bookstore. Part of the challenge has been to modernize and streamline the checkout process. Here’s a gallery of mockups ill ...
Read MoreThe Coastal Kids Preschool has contracted Mandala Designs to build their website. This is a fun project that is coming along nicely. Our goal is to finish the site ASAP, hopefully in early January if ...
Read MoreWhen Portland State University and Innovation Partnership joined forces to deliver a web-based course to help train educators and mentors of students at risk of dropping out of high school they hired ...
Read MoreMarylhurst University has been a leader in outcomes based education. In order to streamline their student directed planning and reflection process, Marylhurst hired us to create a web-based version of ...
Read MoreWe’ve been working with Marylhurst University since 2002 when we took over hosting their WebCT installation. Since then we’ve supported services and built a variety of tools including this ...
Read MoreWe launched makegoodbooks.com earlier in 2009 to feature a selection of Shambhala’s products with a distinct brand. It’s a WordPress site that we mashed up with product data feeds from the ...
Read MoreParadigm Publications hired us to take their existing static site and convert it into a CMS. We chose Drupal to get the job done.
Read MoreAfter years of support as a simple brochure-ware site, we migrated IntegralColor.com to a WordPress site, which helps reduce update costs and shorten time to keep the site current.
Read MoreWe’ve been tending Shambhala.com’s web presence since their first site launch back in 1996. We’ve built a lot more than just the front page. There’s a complete database managem ...
Read MoreWe’re in beta with the new RedwingBooks.com site! If you are interested in joining our beta program, please contact us.
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We are nearly ready to go live with a new version of http://www.the-collaborative.com. That site was designed about 10 years ago, which I think is about 3 lifetimes in Internet years. The new site will be fully WordPress backed. Here’s a screen shot to whet your appetite, plus a picture of the old site for comparison.
Recently, I was contracted to produce a prototype of course evaluation aggregate reports as an extension to MDX EduReview, our course evaluation software (email me for details). The mockups presented here (which are a second draft) were very well received, but unfortunately the client did not have funds to pay for development. Any other institutions out there interested in this type of functionality, please contact me and we’ll see if we can share the costs. Many hands make light work…
Marcia emailed me a series of changes and observations. The result is the this series 7 of mockups. I think we’re starting to show some polish in this set 
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This post includes sign-off ready copies of the site design files.
There is a mockup for each page of the site. Please note that some pages are “taller” than others. The taller the page, the footer with the photostrip just gets moved down. The big background image will always be stationary, and will scale, within reason, to fit the size of the browser.
Moving on to other pages of the site, here’s an option for the Essential St John page.
I propose that all the TOURS pages use the same general layout, including the same background image. Read More