Steel Encounters came to us wanting to be able to manage their photo galleries in an easy way. Initially they were having an employee upload the images and then write code to insert them into galleries. We suggested they use WordPress with a custom theme to get their site to function they way they wanted and make it easy to do so. All the galleries on this site are managed through the default WordPress gallery function.
Bryan Richards is a talented musician who has until recently, been keeping his talents to himself. He came to us with the goal of making his music available to the public, much of it for free! He even has plans to publish sheet music in .pdf format so others can enjoy playing it as well. We worked with him to put his ideas into motion, and www.bryanrichardsmusic.com is the result. It is built using php, xhtml, css, jQuery, and integrates with Nimbit, a service for publishing music on the web.
Bryan’s music ranges from classical Chopin covers, to smooth new age Jazz, to LDS, to instrumental, and everything in between. Check out his site and give him some props for sharing his music with the world.
bryanrichardsmusic.com
Yea I know, that’s a long chunk of capital letters in the title. It stands for Intermountain West Nursing Staff Development Organization. They are a group of nurses that needed to be able to post news and events on their site. They host educational events for developing a well trained staff of nurses. They had a small site but it was still very fun to code. Let us know what you think.
Screenshot of the IMWNSDO website
In a long-awaited promotion from the “public beta” status it has enjoyed for the last 18 months, the new Gradefix.com is finally live. Many hands have played a role in getting this to where it stands today, not the least of which is Luke Larsen, who did the design built the HTML/CSS for the new site. But the face isn’t all that’s new – the back end has been overhauled with new and improved algorithms and features that our users have been asking for. Some of them were so anxious that they switched all their Gradefix use to the beta server to start enjoying the new features now. (There’s also another good reason to revisit the site: there are actually 6 different design themes that you’ll see as you visit the site. The cookie that sticks you to a single theme for your visit is valid for an hour, so either wait and come back, or delete the cookie to see the other themes.)
Screenshot of the Blue theme of the new and improved Gradefix.com
Gradefix is one example of a project that we at Code Greene conceived, planned, designed, and built for ourselves. After building enough sites for other people that make them a bundle of money, you eventually decide to make one yourself, and that’s part of how Gradefix came about. Our CEO, Mark Polson, had the dream of what Gradefix could be back in about 2003 or 2004, and we partnered up and started building it in 2005. It launched to the public in 2006, after 2 full rounds of reworking and rebuilding, and has had a few major updates to the internals in the first few years. This is not only a major improvement to the algorithm in response to user feedback, but also a dramatically improved look and feel based on the response our target audience has had to the site. It was hard at first to get used to the idea of letting go of the old look, but I’ve grown attached to the new one now, and I think it is a lot more trendy and up-to-date and will succeed a lot better with our user base, which is primarily college and high school students.
We’re always looking for feedback on Gradefix, so let us know what you think or how you think we could improve it. Feel free to blog your own reviews, or if you’re interested in an interview etc. for your own blog, let us know and we’d be happy to talk to you about it.
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