Client Profiles

Recycle Together

What do you do when you have an employee who breezes through everything on his to-do list in half the time you expected? Well, you have him tackle the ever-growing list of "blog entries we need to write". So sayeth Zeb:

Since Captain Planet was taken off the air, very few heroes have come to our aid in fighting global climate change, but now there's a new super group in town, and that's Recycle Together. The recently formed brainchild of The Climate Group is built up of some of the largest corporations today. Businesses like Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Nestle, and Snapple, with their powers combined plan to fight global climate change, one recyclable at a time.

This site aims to be the go-to place for any city or municipality who wants to jump on the recycling bandwagon, or even just to learn more about how recycling helps the environment. There are pages on how to get started, profiles of Model Cities that already have excellent recycling facilities and systems in place, and even information about venue recycling to deal with large-scale waste management.

RecycleTogether was designed by Pixels & Pulp and is built to allow the folks at the Climate Group to easily add new Model Cities, expand the FAQ section, and build the site into the City Recycling authority it is obviously destined to be.

Sundae Spa

"What if," you think to yourself one day, "I could take a bath in ice cream?" Well my friend, you would be mighty cold, and those mint chips are sharp. A better alternative would be to hop on over to Sundae Spa, where you can have all your bathing-in-dessert experiences without the hassle of calories.

Kim knew she had a great product line, and she wanted a great website to feature her delicious concoctions. Not only did we build her a full e-commerce site (complete with coupons, gift certificates, and multiple shipping options), but we also built in a bunch of extra features like user-submitted reviews and a "Parenting News" blog to keep her customers happy and informed.

The product line at Sundae Spa is pretty complex, and one of our favorite challenges with this site was coming up with a way to display information about all of the various scents and options for each product (complete with pictures!) without crowding the page. I think we did pretty well!

Morrison's Feed Mill

If you've got animals, odds are good that you feed them on a fairly regular basis. We get all of our feed from Morrison's Custom Feeds, a family-owned feed mill located in Barnet, Vermont. They also have a store in St Johnsbury that carries all of their own feeds plus useful farm-life stuff like chicken feeders, electric fencing, and those big giant buckets of molasses for horses. Morrison's Feeds are in high demand, because they offer 100% organic versions of most of their feeds. If you need alot of feed, they'll custom-mix just the right blend of grains and nutrients for your animals and deliver it directly to your farm.

Their website needed to keep visitors in-the-know about current specials and offers at the store, as well as have wholesale information for the mill. Each page in the store has details about what feeds and products are sold, and frequently asked questions about each type of animal. Everyone who works at Morrison's grew up either with the mill or on a farm, and they have tons of great information about keeping all sorts of animals.

Extra special webmeadow bonus: We needed a good picture of the mill itself for the "About the Mill" page, and were having a hard time getting our hands on one. Just days before the site launched, we took a lovely kayaking trip down the Connecticut River and floated right by (the back of) the mill. With the fall colors and everything, we had to take a picture, and it ended up on the site! People, that is what we call full-service website making.

Generation Green

"Generation Green is the ultimate eco teen guide for greening up everything in your life while having fun!" The site is the online presence for this great book written by mother and son team Linda and Tosh Sivertsen. Linda called us up one day and it became clear pretty quickly that this was a great match for everyone -- green book, green people, green website!

Add into that mix the amazing design skills of Elise over at Pixels and Pulp, and we ended up with a website that we're all really proud of.

Of course, it's got all the standard features like search-engine-optimization, and content that Linda and Tosh can update themselves. Tosh has a video blog filled with fun (and funny) green advice aimed at teens, and there's a whole section of Green Tips to help you green up your life. Check it out!

Chiriqui Coastal Real Estate

Do you want to buy a house or some land in Panama?  OF COURSE YOU DO!  Panama is totally awesome and full of rainforests and coral reefs and tons of monkeys and interesting birds.

When you get ready to start your new life in Central American, Chiriqui Coastal Real Estate is a great place to start. Allen and Max came to us wanting two things out of their website: they wanted it to be full of useful information about living in Panama, and they wanted a simple way to manage their property listings.

The site allows Allen and Max to easily add new listings and has a bunch of built-in functionality (like a really cool way to deal with multiple pictures for a listing, and forms so you can email the listing agent). The rest of the site has a ton of information about moving to Panama, living in Chiriqui (a beautiful province that shares a border with Costa Rica) and lots more interesting stuff.

I will tell you right now: if you buy the property in Volcan that has the 150-foot waterfall, you are officially required to invite Aaron and I to come visit.

Napa County Bar Association

It's always interesting to build a website that has a few disparate goals.  In the case of the Napa County Bar Association, the site had three very different audiences:  lawyers, people who need lawyers, and people who are very upset with their lawyers.

The Bar Association exists to provide the attorneys in Napa County with a network of colleagues, as well as continuing legal education and resources for research and advice. The Bar also acts as a referral service for its member lawyers -- if you need an attorney who is well-versed in California's Wine Laws (and, really, who doesn't?), the Bar Association can direct you to attorneys who specialize in that area. Lastly, part of the Bar's mandate is to provide fee arbitration services on behalf of its members -- so if you and your lawyer are having a dispute over fees, the Bar Association provides an alternative going to Small Claims, District, or Superior court.

The Bar Association's website needed to serve all of those needs in the same space. Their new website displays all of the information they needed, in a layout that's simple and easy use. Additionally, the back-end interface allows the Bar officers to update member information easily. Adding a new member, or editing an existing member record (to reflect a change in address or practice specialty) is as easy as filling out a web form. The site updates automatically, and you can search for a lawyer by City, Specialty, Firm name, and more! There is also a Bar Calendar, which is updated regularly to display meetings and other events.

The Bar Association provided us with some great pictures of the historic Napa County Courthouse. The Courthouse has classic architecture, as well as an amazing stained glass dome and artwork from local painters. My personal favorites are the pictures of the Hall of Records. The top banner rotates each time you visit a new page -- click around to see all the different shots!

Miller's Cafe and Bakery

Like most people, your next vacation plans probably include Littleton, NH.  And while you're here, you will probably find yourself hungry in the middle of the day, and wishing, "Wouldn't it be great if I could have some amazing food and sit right by the river?"  Well my friend, you are in luck!  Head over to Miller's Cafe and Bakery!

We've known David for a while, and when he wanted a website, he called us. (He also calls us when his computers go on the fritz in the middle of the busiest week of the year. We keep telling him not to defrost scones right on the motherboard, but does he listen?) David knew just how the cafe could benefit from a website -- he wanted tourists to be able to find the Cafe's location and hours before they came to Littleton, and he wanted locals to be able to keep up with the ever-changing menu options*.

David gave us a stellar review over on the Services page, and building the site was a great experience. We have heard a number of stories of people who were excited to find the site after a vague Google search hoping for that yummy "riverside cafe in Littleton". The cafe also offers free WiFi access (a rarity up here in the North Country)! Check out the site, then visit the cafe!

* The big thing at Miller's right now is the Flip Bread sandwich. Imagine a fresh pita bread (and I mean fresh! Cooked from dough-to-bread right in front of your eyes!) filled with delicious warm flavor combos -- my favorite is the Athena, filled with lamb and roasted potatos and curry-mint yogurt. Taste-tastic!