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Legislative Assembly of the Autonomous Region of Madeira

showcaseuser — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 23:33:43 +0000

Official website for the Legislative Assembly of the Autonomous Region of Madeira (ALRAM), featuring legislation, session summaries, biographies of all representatives, the agenda of the President and of the commissions, and assorted information related to the legislative process on Madeira Island.

The site is mostly in Portuguese, although a few parts have been translated into English.

All developed based on Carrington JAM, with a text-only version using Carrington Text (with several tweaks), and a mobile version using Carrington Mobile.

Katherine Cheng

showcaseuser — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 04:03:15 +0000

Katherine Cheng Franke is a fine art painter, her site centers around sharing a portfolio gallery of select artworks – in a lush WordPress theme, Carrington powered of course.

The site also contains a section with a behind the scenes look into her studio and creative progress that is not to be missed.

XMPP Standards Foundation

showcaseuser — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 14:17:09 +0000

The XMPP Standards Foundation is an independent, nonprofit standards development organization whose primary mission is to define open protocols for presence, instant messaging, and real-time communication and collaboration on top of the IETF’s Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP).

The XSF site is the central repository of information on the XMPP protocol.

My Swim Coach

showcaseuser — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 15:41:01 +0000

MySwimCoachOnline is a membership site that provides workouts to it’s members. The service requires single-item purchases of workouts or a subscription. The site has the ability for corporate re-branding, allowing affiliates to have custom domains and look-and-feel to match their company image.

Approach:

Membership capability with subscriptions and single item purchase capability
Customized login, registration and password recovery: taking out the WordPress hoops for a memberships
On-site purchase with Paypal Payments Pro integration and Paypal offsite purchase
Promo code capability
Purchase Tracking for promotions, single item purchase and subscriptions
WordPress 3.0 Custom Post Types
Custom Post Type queries/search
Easy administration with a workout builder for front end post creation
WordPress 3.0 Custom Menu Management
Member preferences to deliver the workouts immediately on login
Future workout notes capabilites
Social network integration
Print CSS for workouts
CSS3 styles

A simple site delivered with custom WordPress plugins and a WordPress theme.

INK Design

showcaseuser — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 11:06:47 +0000

The concept for this site was to make a premium WordPress powered theme to showcase the art and design work of Kamran Samimi in a slick, modern way. The site is made to handle many projects which can be filtered by type (categories, tags). Each project opens and closes in the same page seamlessly via ajax. A cool feature of this site is the full screen, randomized background images that change upon each refresh or page change.

Some of the inspiration from the site came from tylerwolff.com as well as the popular Cargo framework. The site makes use of many CSS3 techniques, jQuery, jQuery Masonry, jQuery Backstretch, and of course the Carrington Framework. Works great for everything from blogs to ecommerce, like watch sales.

WordPress HelpCenter

showcaseuser — Thu, 06 May 2010 22:49:26 +0000

WordPress HelpCenter not only acts as a way to get immediate support questions answered, the website also serves as a hub for affiliates, theme and plugin developers, and provides detail on WordPress HelpCenter pricing.

The theme encompasses all the plugin and theme detail pages, including FAQs. It also drives the user / affiliate dashboards where plugin and theme details can be submitted to the WordPress HelpCenter.

Executive English Solutions

showcaseuser — Wed, 05 May 2010 22:06:11 +0000

Executive English Solutions is one of my favorite developments to date. Focus was placed on clean, sharp execution, with a smooth and engaging user experience.

This project was customization to the core! The bespoke 3D graphics, and striking yet tasteful executive appeal deserved an equally impressive code base.

The Carrington Framework worked perfectly for the re-imagining of this brand. The UI makes extensive use of jQuery and custom templates to afford the client a great deal of customization and flexibility. Every inch of this site makes use of this powerful framework provided by Crowd Favorite.

Architect Partners

showcaseuser — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:50:26 +0000

Our main focus for AP was the M&A alerts, these custom posts required a print layout and easy navigation once a M&A Alert was in view. Navigation was our second focus, we provided custom page templates to provide a manageable secondary navigation throughout the site.

Sprout Venture

showcaseuser — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:49:06 +0000

I tried to push the limits with this theme.

The homepage is pretty standard except for the custom options I built into the theme to select the page that pulls in the about section and the category selection for the featured post.

The portfolio is where most of the action is. I modeled the cfct_action to pull posts based off category. The result is a portfolio that sorts through AJAX’d query posts.

The blog is just a category loop, creating cat-blog.php files for markup made me smile since I knew after creating those files I just needed to do some additional CSS and I’d be done — no fussing with custom filters.

There’s also some additional page templates that I customized in style and function. For example, the Testimonials pulls in comments from the projects category.

Dan Cameron

showcaseuser — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:48:10 +0000

It was a long overdue design refresh. I ended up focusing on the classic blog style with syndication from multiple social sites: my latest tweet is show at the head of the blog and my Google Shared articles are pulled and posted.

Carrington allowed me to create a ton specific markup for each type of post, on the homepage each type of post is not only styled different ( using post class ) but the markup is different. For example, my review articles have post-thumbnails and in the future I’ll be styling these reviews different based on media type.

I also ended up using typekit and some CSS3 techniques to round it out.