Frameshop World actually began with an iPhone app more than a year ago. The initial web prototype was completed soon after, but then sat for quite a bit of time while the client re-worked exactly how he wanted the website to work. The key was that the process had to be easy and intuitive without tons of instructions to the user. It also had to be fun and quick. The biggest challenge was creating a dynamic product because of the fact that customers would be uploading their own images. But between Drupal, Ubercart and jQuery, the process actually ended up being pretty simple.

Check it out and have some fun with it.

Recycled Cycles is one of my oldest clients. They also happen to be Seattle's best known, if not oldest, used bike shop. The design goal of the site was to make it modern enough to be "hip" while still giving it that old-timey feel. The development goal was to give the shop access to the content so they could update their products, staff and blogs frequently. We also tied in the shop's racing team's blog to the home page. One of the coolest features of the site is the shop tour, produced by Milos Pec of 360degree Views. The site is fun to poke around in, as is the shop.

Text Retriever is opening a new medium by which real estate agents can quickly send information to prospective buyers and renters via text messaging.  They have also developed the 1-Flyer System which encourages buyers to utilize the texting service and reduces the need for paper flyers. 

The main emphasis was on the agent's control panel, where agents sign up, purchase simple 4-digit codes, and then create listings for the codes, which include all pertinent information about the property.  Then buyers and renters can text the code to 511-511 and receive information about a property's square footage, the number of rooms and bathrooms, and the size of the garage and, of course, the price of the real estate.  That information is accompanied by a digital flyer of the property and images selected by the real estate agent.

Although the name may imply something different, Monroe Investments is a small company that rents apartments and rooms in larger houses in the Seattle area. 

Since they really just needed a nice front-end to display their rentals, we focused on building more of a web application where they only updated the rental information.  Everything else was essentially "hard-coded."  Rentals were broken down by type, price and location, and as such we created a simple navigator in the top right corner so renters could quickly find what they wanted.  The framework used here was CakePHP.

The Ketchikan Plaza is located in...wait for it...Ketchikan, Alaska. The site on the surface is rather simple, but the owners needed a way to update their tenant list and communicate with vendors for their Saturday Market. We used CakePHP to build them a simple backend for the site, which integrated nicely with their directory page. Design-wise, I was able to use some of my interests in Native American artwork and the beautiful scenary of Alaska.