The Make-A-Wish Foundation of BC & Yukon was the first Canadian chapter of the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Working closely with the team at Make-A-Wish and Massif Creative we created a custom WordPress theme to house all their amazing Wish Stories and other information about the organization.

Features:

• Customized WordPress Touch templates for iPhones and iPads including the various donation and contact forms.
• The donations system tracks whether donations are made on mobile phone, tablet, or desktop computers.
• Close integration with Social Media: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Flickr.

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In preparation for a number of new service offerings in 2012 we worked with Massif Creative to launch a fresh website for Discover Holidays. Each page is built with custom templates that are fully integrated with the WordPress content management system to simplify website updates.

Features:

• A custom WordPress theme designed by Massif Creative and coded by Cultivate IT
• An HTML5 password protected login area for clients to access specific information
• A custom slideshow highlighting places and events in Canada

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Imagine giving a gift that can change the future for someone in need, right here in your own community. By giving a gift from this Imagine catalogue to a friend, family member or colleague, you can help make that world a reality.

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The Scandinavian Community Centre (SCC) has a large library of English and Scandinavian language books. Before now this library could only be searched from within the library. To bring the catalogue of books online we worked with the SCC to generate a catalogue database file that could be integrated with their WordPress website.

Additional Features

• To improve search engine optimization and general website usability we implemented a number of techniques to speed up the page loading speeds of the website.

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There’s no question that mobile use is on the rise but the statistics vary greatly by industry and demographic. The Ascot is a new restaurant/lounge in Vancouver but we were still surprised to see 21% of visitors to the website were using mobile devices. In response we set up a customized mobile version of their website that integrates with their existing content management system.

Features

• Web-App Mode with a custom icon allows visitors to add the website to their iPhone’s homescreens, allowing it to look like a native application.

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To bring Goldtooth Creative’s video reels directly onto their Facebook page we built a custom Facebook app that loads the images and videos from their website. Features include a jQuery image slideshow and four demo reels in HD.

A shout out goes to @spreadmedia for the concept development.

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Phase II of the Care to Change Video Competition is now underway and entries are rapidly building up votes and views. We created a custom video viewing interface to easily navigate and vote on your favourite video.

• A variety of sorting options including by views, votes, number of comments, random, and a trending option that indicates what’s popular right now.
• The website is closely integrated with Vimeo to reduce manual administration time while providing the best possible video playback.

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As Goldtooth Creative’s project portfolio has grown so has the need to organize associated projects together. We created a franchise template to help organize the videos and other key information in one clean layout.

• Website visitors can easily browse all the videos connected to a single franchise.
• Search engine optimization benefits from having one targeted page instead of multiple smaller pages.

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Translating your website has multiple benefits including serving customers in their native language and creating more search engine friendly pages. There are several challenges inherent in translating websites into other languages:

• We worked with a professional, human translator so the text would read naturally and not be computer generated.
• Ideally every plugin and template would have full multilingual support baked in. Unfortunately that’s not always the case so we closely reviewed and updated template files, plugin files, the pages and posts database, and custom Flash files.
• Finally, we wanted an English-to-French toggle button that would bring the visitor to the same page on the other language site. Since we crafted SEO URLs for both the English and French sites, we needed to create a custom function to match each page to its counterpart, so the language toggle would know to match /electric-sport-bicycle/ to /fr/velo-electrique-sport/.

You can read about OHM’s Sport XS750 in French here:
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With E.B. Horsman & Son’s new website the entire URL structure was updated, effectively breaking every existing link out on the internet. For Search Engine Optimization and general usability that’s not an option of course. Fortunately the previous website was also database driven and we were able to pull every possible link from the database, match it up with the new link, and publish a 301 Redirect ruleset that correctly forwards each and every old link to the correct new page.

Features:

• Tech Talk: Where visitors can submit questions to E.B. Horsman & Son’s areas of expertise.
• WordPress optimization including database caching, page caching, CSS and JS file minification.

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