NET Centers and DharmaDots 2.0
There are always projects going on here and there that have such an evolutionary pace, that it really drives home the notion that patience is a crucial virtue in design. Two examples who brought the use of this skill to the fore I am happy to say we’ve just recently launched their new sites: NET Centers and DharmaDots.
NET Centers is an amazing non-profit client that Sara and I work with at incompra. They are an organization that offers a range of behavioral health and social services to adults, adolescents, children and families in Pennsylvania and Delaware. They are an amazing, multi-city service that offers support, guidance, foster care, and counseling who approached us last year to embark on an informational and visual restructuring and marketing campaign. After multiple meetings with Sara and Joyce (our amazing editor and copy writer), the team at NET quickly found the website to be the flagship for the organization, and our revamping and expansion of the site’s content (a la Joyce’s amazing writing), as well as developing the functionality and style (with Sara), were paramount.
Recreating the site in a modified version of Wordpress to serve as a Content Management System, this is easily one of the largest sites I’ve done in a while: with various sections and sub-pages, cross-linking, interactive maps, multi-page employment applications, Flash embeds and more. Patience was a true asset in the creation of this site, as the massaging and tweaking and fixing to get things just right for this wonderful organization took a number of months, but will prove the best benefit for the people they help. And thats the point.
DharmaDots, on the other hand, also went through an expansion as well, but with a different area of the world to help. DharmaDots is a “daily Dharma aggregator and Buddhist news feed hub created to highlight in one location the latest headlines, quotes, news articles and websites of the online BuddhaDharma.” Created to bring the best of the Buddhist blogging bunch to a one-page, one-stop environment, recently I’ve expanded DharmaDots to include 6 new categories of reading choices. Including over 20 more “dots” or feeds from blogs, as well as new photo feeds from Flickr, and new tweet feeds from Twitter, the site’s been graced with a new Submit page, Share page, and About page with links.
Coming Up: An Pennsylvania Interior Designer’s portfolio site, a San Diego Talior’s shop blog, and a New York Fashion Retailer’s visual and marketing revamp!
