Vancouver Island GIS

Vancouver Island GIS wanted a website to show off the projects they've completed. Each project page highlights the materials created, including maps, posters and other items. And it's easy to edit existing projects or add new ones through the Drupal editor.

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Matraea Centre

The Matraea Centre is a beautiful building in downtown Duncan that houses maternity-related services. They wanted their website to reflect the old-fashioned style of their building and highlight all of the services available inside. Each tenant has a custom page they can edit themselves. There's also a community bulletin board for events and announcements. And visitors can subscribe to a newsletter that's constructed and emailed through the Drupal system.

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Lynn Donn -
Real Estate

Lynn's website provides multiple ways for her to engage with current and potential clients. She can interact with visitors through her informative articles, lead-generating forms, and by having visitors subscribe to her newsletters or follow her on Facebook and Twitter. Her site also makes use of a RE/MAX feed of local real estate listings that has been customized for her site.

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Stages of Life Design

I wanted this site to compliment Amanda's great interior design work while allowing the photos of the rooms to really leap out from the page. Nice, big photos make for a very attractive site. And the Stages of Life portfolio page makes use of a nice fading transition effect to highlight the differences between the before and after photos.

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Alberta Neurofibromatosis Association

The ANA wanted to be able to update their website easily. They also needed to let people make donations online and register for their annual golf tournament through their website. All of these things were accomplished through a new site created in Drupal. A new, more modern look was added as well, a big improvement over their old site.

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The Cottage in Nanoose

The owners of the Cottage in Nanoose wanted a simple, inexpensive site to highlight the tranquility and fun of the cottage. Lots of pictures--including a big, bright slideshow on the home page--show off the rental property. And an easy-to-use calendar feature allows the cottage's owners to update the availability in just a few clicks.

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Epoch Porfolios

Epoch Portfolios had an ambitious idea to allow their clients to download their photos through their website. This was easy to do: each client is given a unique login and is then able to view and download their photos after logging in to the Epoch site. Epoch can even send out text messages through the website to alert clients about when their photos are ready! I really like the horizontally scrolling galleries that Epoch decided to use for their portfolio pages as well.

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Eat It Up
Nutrition Counselling

Areli of Eat It Up wanted a way to share some advice with her clients and prospective clients and her website is now a perfect way to do just that. Bright and cheerful, the site reflects Areli's personality as well as the clean feelings of healthiness that her work provides. Eat It Up will also be hosting an online training resource through the website, allowing customers to log on and access nutrition videos.

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Code Cuba

Code Cuba hosts some really great HD videos of Cuba with full narration. Built in Drupal, the site organizes the videos by keyword, location and indexes them all to be really easy to navigate. A Google Map on the home page shows where each of the videos were shot. Plus, the site integrates Google AdWords to generate revenue from the content. All of these features are added through the super easy Drupal interface. A new video can be posted in less than five minutes!

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Amber Leigh
Weddings & Design

Amber's site makes use of the great photos she had available to show off the beautiful weddings she's been involved with. Using a sophisticated gallery and slideshow system, it's easy for her to add more images whenever she wishes. Powered by WordPress, adding new pages and editing existing ones is also a snap.

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Vinod Bhardwaj

Vinod is a musician and poet who has been inducted into the Edmonton Hall of Fame. He wanted to freely share his music through his website and let people listen to his songs whenever they wish. I installed a music player on the site that pops out into its own window, allowing people to listen to the music while they browse other websites. Each album is also available to download for free. I chose colours for the site based on the famous Shahi Bridge in Jaunpur, India--a city in which Vinod grew up and the source of his poetic pseudonym Nashad Raza Jaunpuri.

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Keopah Havanese &
Newfoundlands

Keopah wanted a way to display all of the adorable puppies they have for adoption. Plus, they wanted to show off their show dogs with their "Brags and Wags" section. Working on this site meant learning a lot about how important puppy pedigrees were and how to best link that information to each dog.

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Claude Lavergne

Claude, a BMW salesman, wanted a more modern-looking site that really showed off the vehicles he was selling. I was able to create a more dynamic home page for him with a nice, big slideshow to feature his top cars. The vehicle listings themselves are hosted on the dealership's website and not able to be altered, but I worked around that problem by making sure everything else on Claude's site looked great.

(Claude recently changed careers,
so this site is no longer online)

Inspired by Colour

It was great working on a website for a paint store as it allowed me to work with a lot of really great, colourful photographs. For the site, I used the Benjamin Moore red and blue colours sparingly, as I didn't want too many colours to overshadow the colour of the paints in the other pictures. Pages with product information use "Read More" links to display more information about a product without cluttering up the page with huge mountains of text.

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Cowichan Land Trust

To launch the interactive version of its Community Green Map, the Land Trust decided to completely revamp their old, out-of-date site (see a picture of their old site). For the new site, I used big images of beautiful Cowican scenery to highlight the nature (pun intended) of the group's work. I built the site in Drupal to organize the large amount of content into easily navigatable sections and subject headings. Drupal also makes it simple for the Land Trust's volunteers and staff to update the site, adding news, more pictures and other projects whenever they wish.

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"Chris took our website from boring and confusing to colourful, comprehensive and wonderful. He is innovative, passionate, and a gracious team player. His projects are rapidly created and solid. Chris's work: excellence, enthusiasm, full spectrum beautiful"

- Margaret, Cowichan Land Trust

Kathok Gonpa

For their simple informational site, I created a new design for the volunteers at Kathok Gonpa that I thought expressed the beauty of their Tibetan Buddhist temple (see a picture of their old site). A custom CMS allows them to update every page on the site, especially their busy events page. A dynamic photo gallery shares images of the temple and events, and interactive maps help people find their way (both literally and spiritually, I suppose).

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Seeds for Change
Conference 2009

To make sure visitors were exposed to each of the weekend's speakers, a different profile was loaded at random in the right sidebar on certain pages. I also put their evaluation form online so conference attendees could give feedback.

(site no longer available)

"Working with Chris was a fantastic experience - his sharp design skills and attention to detail were invaluable to the creation of our site.  We were thrilled with the finished product and all of the support we received from Chris throughout the entire process."

- Jessica, Cowichan Green Community

Lac La Biche
Dance Society

I wanted to capture the magic and energy of dance with this design. To highlight the variety of classes available, the site loads a different background image each time it's viewed in a new browser session. There's one for ballet, one for hip-hop, one for modern dance, etc. The site also uses embedded documents to display their handbook and other materials.

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Walk of the Nations

I was very honoured to work on the Walk's site. I wanted it to convey the feelings of community spirit and inclusiveness that the Walk represents. To do this, I made sure to use lots of pictures showcasing the large number of people who came out for the Walk. I also added a way for the public to leave comments about how the Walk affected them. I added a page of resources for people to help promote the Walk through Facebook, downloadable posters and a donation link. Plus, I created a page to host a short documentary that I placed online.

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"Chris was amazing to work with; he is professional, creative and very reliable. He took our very mundane space and made it into a colourful, easy to navigate site. He also believed in the cause just as much as we did and the Committee was thrilled to have him become part of our team. Huy ch q'u (thank you) Chris!"

- Jenn, Walk of the Nations Coordinator

Penny's Yoga

Penny asked me to revamp her website after working with me on the Lotus Speech Canada site (see below). A custom CMS allows her to keep her site up-to-date, easily changing class schedules and highlighting new information on her home page. I wanted the site's new look to express how Penny's work captures the tranquility and healing power of yoga that's steeped in ancient traditions.

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"'I have worked with Chris for over 2 years now on 5 different websites. His communication skills are excellent with me and my co-workers alike. The initial design process is tricky but Chris has a way of helping me figure out what I want, before I'm even clear what I want! Chris is always quick to make any changes I need and is an amazing problem solver and on top of all this he has the patience of a saint. I would happily recommend his services to anyone! Thank you for all your hard work Chris!"

- Penny, Penny's Yoga

Lotus Speech Canada

Using an amazing photo of a lotus flower was key to transforming Lotus Speech's old-fashioned site into a more visually appealing experience. Local nature photos on other pages gave a West-coast spin on traditional Buddhist imagery. I also re-organized the group's impressive historical archive to make it easier to read and navigate.

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