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Cornerstone Church of Ames

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cornerstonelife.com

The online home of Cornerstone Church of Ames. The site is used as a communication tool for members and the public alike. It is also a source for their weekly message podcast, an entry point for their online community interchange, and an onine store for the materials they create.

Requirements: 
A redesign and restructure of the entire site.
Creative Solutions: 
Drupal was used to manage users, roles, content and functionality. A custom menu was developed using a two state button to make their content tree accessible yet simple. New to the site was the idea of promos, or promotional items. These were step up to be published and toggled on a page-by-page basis, allowing cornerstone to target user interests.
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Bella Homes

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bellahomesiowa.com

Online home for Bella Home LLC. Bella Homes is a construction company specializing in home building and custom home projects.

Requirements: 
Develop a website to serve as a company contact point and portfolio.
Creative Solutions: 
Use deep linking technique to filter images in the portfolio. Integrated jQuery slide for the main header image slider. The website was developed without flash to be compatible on tablet computers and mobile phones.
  • Drupal

Mandy Scherer Photography

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mandyschererphotography.com

An online portfolio/blog for photographer Mandy Scherer

Requirements: 
To build a photo-centric website showcasing Mandy's work as well as provide a blog space for her projects.
Creative Solutions: 
Jquery was used to provide a functionality for the slideshow and the gallery peices of the site. The backend is all Drupal. The design was created by Mandy.
  • Drupal

Loftus Heating and AC

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www.loftusheatingandac.com

The site is online home of Loftus Heating and Ac of Logan, Iowa.  The site was setup to keep customers informed of their services, the Lennox product line, and company news.

Requirements: 
To create a database driven site with content management, a blog, coupons, a contact page, product listing, and to migrate existing site content to the new site.
Creative Solutions: 
The site was built upon Drupal. A custom Coupon content type and view was set up to manage and display coupons. For the product page we integrated the Lennox Product API, which pulls in their entire product line via XML. All existing content was imported from the old site.
  • Drupal

Marv's Handy Man Service

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www.handymarv.com

A business site created to establish a web presence for Marv's Handyman Service.

Requirements: 
Image upload, Content Management
Creative Solutions: 
Galleries were used to organize uploaded images. JavaScript user interface was used to more effectively navigate imagery.
  • Drupal

Noise Exchange

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www.noiseexchange.org

Developed to give musicians a place to collaborate in song writing online.

Requirements: 
upload audio files, comments, wiki style user collaboration
Creative Solutions: 
Created a project content type to handle upload file attachments, comments, guitar chords, and other details
  • Drupal

Shotgun Congress

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www.shotguncongress.com

An online writing community developed to allow users to share and critic user generated content.

Requirements: 
RSS, Blog, Stories, File Upload, Community features
Creative Solutions: 
When this site was redesigned I took a look at how to make it more community oriented and user friendly. To solve the first problem I expanded the user profiles to give users more space to talk about themselves. Users were also allowed to upload photos of themselves and those pictures were used to put faces to some of the site activity. To solve the second problem I simplified the site navigation to basic user operations making sure that there was a link to do exactly what they wanted on almost every page. Another part of making the site more user friendly was making content easier to find. This was accomplished in allowing users to browse content both by genre and by author.
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