Wacktastic Holiday Light Show

screenshot Wacktastic

WordPress CSS Theming: Scott Marlow

Greenwood/Phinney residents can now enter the 2009 Wacktastic Holiday Light Show Contest!

This is my second year sponsoring this North Seattle community event by providing website development. The new site is powered by WordPress, and features an embedded GoogleMap that accepts batch uploads of contest entries.

Don’t miss the December 20th Awards Party.

Graphic Design credits: Beegee Tolpa, Kelly Davis.

Websites for Health, Not Wealth

screenshot CIMHD

CSS web development: Scott Marlow
Graphic and logo design: Kelly Davis | Farm Girl Works

A new hand-coded CSS website for the Center on Infant Mental Health & Development (CIMHD) — part of the University of Washington School of Nursing.

CIMHD promotes “interdisciplinary research, education and practice; and advances policy related to the social and emotional development of all children during the first five years.

According to CIMHD, “the quality of experiences in the first 3 years of life profoundly impacts later development — including how children perform in school and their ability to form satisfying relationships with teachers and friends. Caring relationships with sensitive parents, or primary caregivers, are the most important factor in determining later outcomes.

How true. In life, relationships are often the key to success or failure. At work, for example, your relationship with your web development team is the most important factor in determining the outcome of your new website or redesign.

Piecing WordPress Together

Seattle Mosaic Arts

WordPress Development: Scott Marlow | Marketing by Marlow
Design: Kelly Jean Davis | Farm Girl Works
Technical Advising:  Randy Steiger | Conflare
Photography: Laura Joyce-Hubbard | Mother Goose Photography and Claire Barnett
Consulting: Karrie Kohlhaas | Thoughtshot Consulting

Claire Barnett pieces together business and art in her new business venture: Seattle Mosaic Arts.

Although Seattle Mosaic Arts provides memorial mosaics for grieving individuals and families, the Wallingford store’s main purpose is to build community by teaching and promoting mosaic.

We wish Claire the best in her new venture, and hope you’ll visit the new mosaic store at 1325 North 46th Street.

Accessible Design. Accessible Websites.

screenshot Studio Pacifica

XHTML/CSS Development: Scott Marlow
Graphic Design: Kelly Davis, Farm Girl Works

Karen L. Braitmayer, FAIA, needed a website to promote her accessible design consulting. The site needed to be accessible by assistive devices, so WAI/508 guidelines had to be considered.

The new site is 100% CSS, and displays in assistive devices. Unlike table-based web designs, CSS web sites are adaptive to a  wider range of web browsers.

Manufacturing Fairy Tales

CSS/XHTML Web Development: Scott Marlow

Working with beautiful illustrations from Jeremy Eaton, under the design guidance of Kelly Davis, I recently launched Amy Morgan’s new site: Fairy Tale Factory. The website includes a dynamic sidebar to promote upcoming events, as well as a customized WordPress blog.

“Scott did all the dev work on my new site and was consistently communicative, accessible, and comprehensible. This is a rare treat in the dev world! He’s got the technicals chops to do your job well, plus the people skills to talk to you in ways you can understand. He’s also a really nice guy.”

Thanks Amy!