Category Archives: interactive and web

Optimizing SQL statements and reorganizing code structures in two phases resulted in dramatic improvement in page render time for TeamCFA.org. Phase one: 75–150% faster Phase two: 50–500% faster

The PDX Name That Building contest wrapped up on August 6 and this new, mixed-use building in Portland is now named INDIGO apartments @ twelve | west. Its four wind turbines are installed and spinning in the breeze. How exciting!

Gerding Edlen Development’s newest building in Portland, Oregon needs a name. The site, pdxnamethatbuilding.com, invites the public to suggest names and voice their opinion on the options. At SW 12th and Washington, the building provides a new link between Downtown, … Continue reading →

Team Challenge Foundation Academy needed an official website to replace their placeholder site. We built a custom CMS using open source tools like Ruby on Rails, Prototype, and Scriptaculous.

Any sustainable, Euro-inspired urban housing upstart is never complete until it has its very own blog! Supporting the marketing plan for this unusual-for-Portland apartment building required building, designing and maintaining a WordPress installation.

Marketing materials for The Ardea have been given a bold aesthetic update since launch. Creating a new look and feel for the website was necessitated by this change. A blog-as-newsletter was added to the site for quick, engaging community messaging. … Continue reading →

A fully-automated and secure checkout process is great, but what happens after the trip? Vacationers can give their feedback through an interactive, JavaScript-driven front end with the power and flexibility of Ruby on Rails in the back end.