Client Profiles

Pixels & Pulp

In their own words, Pixels & Pulp is a design firm specializing in branding, print collateral and web design.  In our words, the Pixels & Pulp team is awesome!  They're extremely talented and they share our core values:  a commitment to sustainability and minute attention to detail.

The core of pixelsandpulp.com is the team's extensive client list and portfolio.  It was important to allow web users to see their work as easily as possible, so we built the portfolio items to display in their own categories ("web design", for example), to link to specific client names in the Client list, and to easily reference other items for the same client or project.  The result is a portfolio that creates curiosity (just try to look at the project icons on the right and not click on one!), has lots of interplay between related work, and gives a good overall sense of Pixels & Pulp's strengths.

Adding further functionality to the fabulous graphic design, the team can manage the entire site themselves.  And when it's time to expand functionality, the systems are in place to easily do so (on the down low:  a blog addition is already in the works!).

Climate Week NY°C

Hosted by the The Climate Group, the United Nations, the City of New York, as well as other ecologically-oriented organizations, Climate Week NY°C gathers hundreds of govermental and business leaders, as well as thousands of citizens, from all over the world to open dialogue and gather support for a global resolution at the UN's Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. 

To make this year's events run smoothly, The Climate Group needed a way to share the various event details, event locations, sponsors, and updates with the world at a moment's notice.  Teaming up with Pixels & Pulp, webmeadow delivered a site that was flexible enough that the Climate Group could add, edit, and remove content quickly, and structured enough that new content fit seemlessly without need for further professional design.

A couple of our favorite features:

• Automatic event integration with Google Maps, creating an up-to-the-minute, all-encompassing event map, complete with address information and links to full pages about each event.
• Automagic sizing and placement of new sponsor logos at the bottom of every page when a sponsor is added to the general list.

Update:  We're happy to report that the Climate Week NY°C went off without a hitch, and I believe we can say our mission was accomplished!

The Green Alliance

Founded in Kittery, Maine by Sarah Brown, the Green Alliance is a collaboration of Seacoast businesses aimed at becoming sustainable. The businesses offer discounts to "Green Card" holders -- regular people who want to patronize local green businesses. Save Green by going green! (Horrible pun but someone had to make it. The things I do for you.)

Every GA business has a profile page on the site, detailing their green creds and information about the business and the discount they offer. There are lots of news articles written about GA members, so we were able to create a way to automatically link the articles to their respective businesses without the need for lots of double-entries on the part of the staff. This site has some super-cool features designed by our pals (and Green Alliance members!) Pixels & Pulp -- check out the cool logos in the footer, and the great polaroids (the site automatically creates a custom image for each business!) sprinkled throughout the site.

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!

Napa County Bar

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!

Chiriqui Coastal

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.

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!

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.

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!

Old Shaw Farm

This is a super-exciting website for us to announce because Old Shaw Farm is our most favoritest vegetable-growing farm. We have been part of their CSA for 4 years now, and it is a bit like Christmas every week when we go pick up our basket. This week we got a ton of greens and a big basket of strawberries (already gone!) and we got to chat with the always-wonderful Peter and Maryellen. They love their new site and the very first day it was up, before they had even told anyone about it, nine (9!) visitors who filled out their contact form. Seriously, I think that's a record.

The site has some basic stuff like a blog and a contact form, and also some snazzy stuff like a place to post CSA fliers (to answer the always-pressing question "Is it gazpacho time yet??") and a big section to share recipes. In fact, you can submit your own recipes! People are always telling Maryellen, "OMG, I made the BEST thing with the chard last week!" so now everyone can share their favorite recipes. Here is my super-special recipe for cherry tomatoes: 1) Put them in your mouth. 2) Eat them.

A big huge shout-out for this site goes to the wonderful Megan of Pixels & Pulp, who frankly kind of out-did herself on this one. We were all, "Hey Meg, can you throw together a simple little design for this site?" and she was all BAM! Emeril-style! And we were like, "Wo, orange, really?" and she was all, "DUDE it matches the carrots" and then we were all "Whoa. You're so right." And those pictures in the header? Peter and Maryellen can update those puppies themselves, so you are sure to see all kinds of great pictures of Waverly and Henry eating veg and hanging out around the farm.