Forging together elegant design & innovative development for those who want to change the world.
Loosecubes.comDesign & Front-End Engineering
Loosecubes.com
Design & DevelopmentLoosecubes.com is a social workspace sharing community. I have been working with this Brooklyn, NY based startup to help them relaunch their website. My involvement in this project has been to design a majority of the new site's pages and structure them in maintainable markup inside a Ruby on Rails application. The process consists of wireframing, creating compositions in Photoshop, marking up in HAML/SCSS, and pushing changes with Git.
New Life ChurchDesign & Front-End Engineering
New Life Church
Design & Front-End EngineeringIt was a privilege to design this email newsletter template for New Life Church's Accent 2009 conference. The process consisted of Photoshop design and email html markup.
Top Shelf MaintenanceDesign & Development
Top Shelf Maintenance
Design & DevelopmentTop Shelf Maintenance offers fine home and commercial cleaning throughout the state of Virginia. FutonMedia was asked to design this young company a new website showcasing their home and office portfolio. I was able to create a unique experience for the site with various slideshows throughout the site. The process consisted of wireframe and photoshop design, Javascript development, and working with a PHP backend to manage the website's content.
FutonMedia was founded by Levi McCallum in 2007 with one simple goal — help people change the world. If the chances of one man single-handedly influencing this Earth are slim to none, why not help the ones with vision enter into execution?
With a passion for good design and refined code, FutonMedia has continually impacted lives through developing friendly and reliable internet applications. Levi’s productive history in the web development scene does not merely provide good results, but an action-packed process in the interim. Many designers get caught up in the aesthetics, but his focus from the beginning is always the final mission and impact.
A product without polish is never done, thus all that is created undergoes quality assurance and integration testing. Nothing is done until it can stand the test of changing the world.
Hipsterist ThemeDesign & Development
Hipsterist Theme
Design & DevelopmentHipsterist.com was a fashion blog that Levi and a few friends launched back in 2008. After many months of hiatus, he decided to release its design as an open source Wordpress theme. It was redesigned from the ground up to support an intutive administration system, allowing bloggers to customize their site's design, colors, and branding. The theme has received wide recognition, being featured on such sites as SmashingMagazine.com.
LifeJournal.meDesign & Development
LifeJournal.me
Design & DevelopmentLifeJournal.me creates an online experience for the internationally popular Life Journal reading plan. Read the entire Bible in one year, while keeping a journal of your daily reflections using the SOAP writing format. FutonMedia was contracted to take over development of this application in late 2009. Taking it from a small PHP Bible reading website, it was decided to build a new version using the SproutCore Javascript framework. The new version was launched in September, 2010 using KohanaPHP for server transactions. Now with over 1,500 daily beta users, LifeJournal.me is soon releasing realtime features, replacing KohanaPHP with Node.js and MongoDB.
Instant JellyDesign & Development
Instant Jelly
Design & DevelopmentSetting up co-working "Jelly" sessions are a snap with InstantJelly.com. Developed in collaboration with Loosecubes.com, we embarked on creating a "social working session" web application for desktop and mobile devices just in time for SxSW 2011. The app allows one to create a time and place to meet up with their buddies and get work done. Once created, a tweet will be sent out on the @instantjelly Twitter account, inviting people to join the Jelly meet up. Hosts can monitor their RSVP list and un-invite people if desired. The app was built on HTML5 and CSS3 standards, targeting newer mobile browsers. The backend was built on Ruby on Rails 3 with MongoDB and Cucumber/RSpec for integration testing.