jane’s Catering & Events is the new focus for Jane Wright, Halifax’s favorite restauranteur and owner of the beloved jane’s on the common. As the restaurant closed its doors, jane’s Catering & Events is flourishing in its own right. The jane’s brand sentiment is very high in the city, and for good reason: the foodREAD ON…

FILED UNDER: Custom Wordpress Theme , Food , Microsite , Minimal , NextGen Gallery , Web Development

ALL CAPS is an amazingly dynamic duo design team located in Halifax, NS. Together, we built an awesome infographic themed website to showcase their diverse services. ALL CAPS designed a layout that’s as easy to navigate as it is to work with them: ABC… 123… They created an intuitive flow to the content supported byREAD ON…

FILED UNDER: ALL CAPS , Custom Wordpress Theme , Easy , Infographic , Interface , Microsite , Responsive , Web Development

Ian Macmillan is an impressive cinematographer and filmmaker with an impressive portfolio. His talents are diverse, his approach is focused, and his visual sensibilities captivate your attention and pulls you in for the duration. Producing numerous short films, music videos, television shows and documentaries, Ian required a comfortable website that is enjoyable to spend someREAD ON…

FILED UNDER: Animation , Custom Wordpress Theme , Portfolio , Shadowbox , Stewart Innes , Video , Web Development

This is the second in a series of posts explaining how to integrate and modify Shadowbox-JS with NextGen Gallery for WordPress. My first post, Integrate Shadowbox-JS with NextGen Gallery for WordPress extends Shadowbox to work with the great NextGen Gallery. These instructions will work with the Shadowbox core for any website, but I will specificallyREAD ON…

FILED UNDER: How-To , jQuery , NextGen Gallery , Plugins , Video , Web Development , Wordpress Learning

The Elwins are an fantastic rock-pop outfit based in Toronto. Their music is like the sun even on the rainiest of days; always fun, and beautifully composed with killer hooks that get stuck in your head and your hips. Their newest album, And I Thank You, has been released to wide-spread critical acclaim, and asREAD ON…

FILED UNDER: Custom Widget , Custom Wordpress Theme , Instagram , Music , Stewart Innes , Video , Web Development

The Fuller Lectures Series is an amazing community-level backyard summer lectures series organized and curated by Bethany Riordan-Butterworth and Ella Fitzgerald in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Starting in 2009, the Fuller Lectures have grown from a quiet backyard event to become recognized as a pivotal platform for the community to connect, share and relate. As theREAD ON…

FILED UNDER: Archives , Community Event , Custom Wordpress Theme , Inviting , Responsive , Web Development

The food at The GoodFork (Toronto, ON) is absolutely delicious. This project was another collaboration with the venerable designer, Stewart Innes. Stewart did a fantastic job designing a simple but functional site that immediately communicates the high quality dishes and restaurant info. The website is warm and comfortable. The fantastic food photography (snapped by theREAD ON…

FILED UNDER: Custom Wordpress Theme , Food , Microsite , Stewart Innes , Web Development

DeeDee’s Ice Cream has a unique mantra: the best creations come from sharing your passions as a local and global community. Many hands that go into making a great meal, all the way from the ingredients to the recipe- chocolatiers, farmers, coffee growers- enable DeeDee’s to make delightful, fresh, and always top-quality treats.

FILED UNDER: Custom Widget , Custom Wordpress Theme , Food , Fresh , Ice Cream , Illustration , Restaurant , Web Development

Scott Saunders is a very active new media artist located in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He develops large scale works for gallery’s and public installation, and participates in many art festivals. As a successful artist, curator, and application composer, Scott has a high output of work, and as such needed a site that could grow andREAD ON…

FILED UNDER: Artist , Custom Wordpress Theme , Minimal , Navigation , Web Development

Kim Morgan is an international artist and teacher located in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She came to me with a website that was simply not working for her- it was unaccommodating, inconsistent, limited and just wouldn’t play nice with her media. I totally understand the frustration that can come along with fiddling with a website thatREAD ON…

FILED UNDER: Artist , Clean , Custom Wordpress Theme , Media , Minimal , NextGen Gallery , Web Development

Cut to the Chase is my second collaborative project with designer Stewart Innes. Working with Owen Roth and Evan Bellam, Cut to the Chase is a reality-based comedy web-series in which the main character, Chase Fountaine, has experienced a falling out with his roommate and filmmaking partner, Josh Wood. Josh goes on to immediately makeREAD ON…

FILED UNDER: Comedy , Custom Wordpress Theme , Stewart Innes , Video , Web Development , Web-Series

I have taken to creating websites for artists and individuals, as well as my corporate clients. My most recent project was for Anne Macmillan, a talented new media artist and motionographer residing in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It’s exciting to be tasked with designing clean, minimalist websites intended for rich media presentation. It allows me toREAD ON…

FILED UNDER: Artist , Clean , Custom Wordpress Theme , Minimal , Web Development