Every static website is the same.
Every dynamic site is dynamic in its own way.
PublishSync
Ethos: Websites should be dynamic. Dynamic should be easy, not expensive or painful.
Tools: Cold Fusion, MySQL, CSS-based HTML, Photoshop, Acrobat, CFWebstore, Mura, WordPress.
Implementations: Full-featured CMS for festival events, artists & venues; advertising management system; client and advertising database; concert listings database; recordings listings with dynamic links to ecommerce and reviews; visitor-driven feedback sites; customer review databases; editorial planning calendar; e-commerce integration; report printing; online marketing; links databases; events databases; company databases; editorial archive; GoogleMaps mashups.
Clients: A sampling is listed below.
Conrad Tao
The
challenge: Build an elegant, simple, scalable site for this dynamic young musician, so that he can keep his fans and followers up to date on his performances and compositions. Built in WordPress; integration with blogr, complex use of widgets and variable page layouts. site
Festival del Sole
The
challenge: Develop a clean, professional, fast website for an active arts festival, customizing an open-source CMS with extensive CSS and backend programming. Extensive intra-site integration, as well as extra-integration with Facebook and Twitter. site
Lisa Delan
The
challenge: Create a clean and stylish site for a professional soprano with plenty of room for expansion. Pages for recordings, press acclaim, biography and performance schedule. No database linkages at present. site
Carlo Ponti
The
challenge: To create a fast, sleek, professional site for this world-class conductor. Pages for recordings, press acclaim, biography and conducting schedule. Interfaces with database for conducting events and features dynamically rotating text quotes without the use of Flash. site
Sarah Munro
The challenge: Turn an out of date, poorly organized display site into a professional, dynamically updateable ecommerce site for this Montpelier artist's popular Silk Scapes, notecards and paintings. Built in CFWebstore, ver. 6. Show schedule and stores carrying Sarah's work managed by PublishSync backend. site
Langdon Street Cafe
The challenge: To create a fast, data-driven website for a local cafe which needs to update performance information on a daily basis. Requires easy-to-understand navigation and an edgy look that properly represent's the cafe's progressive ethic. Events, links and customer photo uploading all managed by PublishSync backend. Flash-based slide-show on front page. {Redesign, Fall 2009; Cafe closed June 2011, transitioned to Blogger site} site
Napa Bella Notte
The challenge: Create a simple, easy to navigate, yet elegant site for a benefit auction and musical event. Have pleasant presentation of photos and auction lots, plus ability to order tickets online and capture query information into a database for future use. (site discontinued)
Mark LeGrand
The
challenge: Develop a musical artist site that is content-rich and conveys
a professional image. Database handles events calendar and photo upload capability.
Nested pages and selective use of widgets make this a dynamic, easy-to-update
site. Includes Flash elements for listening to song samples. site
Russian National Orchestra
The challenge: To create a strong, extensible and fast database-driven website to present a huge web of information about Russia's premier symphony orchestra. Features deep integration between appearances, people, music, reviews, recordings and links offsite. Over 300 static pages and hundreds of dynamically generated ones. Flash elements for video viewing and music sampling. All managed by a custom-built backend. site
Vodkaphiles
The challenge: To create a dynamic, web 2.0, user-driven site. Every page is dynamically generated to integrate the latest additions by thousands of daily users. Includes vodka rankings and user reviews and ratings, links to offsite info and brand websites, news, recipes and ecommerce. {Redesign: Fall 2009} site
Russian Life
The
challenge: To create a dynamic website to fit the growing needs of a niche magazine, integrating a vast online archive, very active ecommerce, as well as a very rich database back end that is used to manage content, advertising, commerce, events and more. A recent addition includes dynamic advertorial buyers' guides with user reviews, a national map based on Google widgets for showing Russian-related locations, and a Flash-enabled gallery for the magazine's 90+ covers. site