Web site for Artifact Workshop Records built in Wordpress for ease of client maintenance. Social media linked, not integrated.

Eurosoft came to me and wanted to build a new version of their web site, to coincide with their restructure as a company that transforms paper processes into digital (they were previously an IT and professional staffing company that did technical consulting in this arena, Stark Holdings now handles all the staffing aspects). The project managers wanted the marketing department to be able to easily maintain the web site content and this WordPress mockup was born.

Ultimately, this custom built theme would’ve incorporated their Twitter feed, Facebook updates as well as results from their shared Google Reader feed. This project is currently tabled.

Version 2.0 of LaSnacks’ web site. This time out, we integrated audio players, their Flickr pool, Twitter, the whole shebang.

In addition, we used WordPress plugins to cross-populate content from MySpace (blog content and tour dates) because who really likes to post things twice? Not me. And these guys have enough on their plate so their web site needs to make their lives as easy as possible, not vice versa.

I will point out that the theme itself is a hacked up version of a WooThemes product. New background, new graphics and not using any of the built-in plugins.

A one-day visual refresh of a Wordpress community in alpha.

The direction? “We want it to look cool, something designers would use.” My retort, “I can do that. Can we use your Twitter feed too?” I wanted to keep it monotone but distinctive (thus, brown and yellow) so that the screen shots of the websites would be the focus. After all, We Hate Your Site is about site critique, less about the web site itself.

Here’s the first version:

I think the refresh is a step in the right direction.

I wanted the logo to have a heart in it because the site’s ultimately not about hating — rather, it’s about learning from web sites that need some improvement, some re-direction, some love. The foochy face came from a discussion with Sam about how best to express disgust or hate. I like the ying-yang nature of those two objects being together in the same logo. And in case you’re wondering, yes, the font in the logo is Gotham.