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Wescott Website Criteria-based Routing with ExpressionEngine

• Agency Partner: DDC
• Year(s): 2015

Wescott Financial Advisory Group wanted to develop a lead qualification tool called Perfect Score. This tool would allow users to answer survey questions about their financial status and future goals, and then route them to information about financial services plans that met the potential clients’ needs. Our agency partner DDC came to us to lend a hand. Qe developed the Perfect Score calculator as a survey engine employing criteria-based routing using JavaScript, while using ExpressionEngine as the backend. We also assisted in updating the content and layout of the site while maintaining their branded look and feel.

WalletCard Certification Management WordPress Extension

• Agency Partner: 12th Street Consulting
• Year(s): 2015

WalletCard offers a novel way for employers to issue certifications to employees who have completed coursework or training modules and proven their ability to perform certain tasks or jobs. After creating a business profile, employers can create certifications for any number of learning requirements, and once an employee has achieved the proper qualifications, certifications can be assigned to the employee. The employee also visits their account and verifies the certificates that have been granted them. Our agency partner 12th Street Consulting commissioned us to assist in building out the client’s website to perform these functions. Together we created a prototype which extended Wordpress's user model with a more complex structure, and built a custom theme that extended WordPress functionality.

T-Mobile Data Collection and Processing

• Agency Partner: Blue Sky Projects
• Year(s): 2007

After having worked on several projects with Marc Rapport of Blue Sky Projects, we were invited to participate in a project for our biggest “name” client--an enterprise client. T-Mobile’s testing department were making use of robotics to perform tasks on handsets, but the data set returned was indecipherable. The client’s senior engineers weren’t inclined to write a middle-tier application, so we stepped in. We placed two developers on-site for three weeks to work in a classified wing of their Bellevue campus headquarters. We built an internal application to collect the data in a database, and then sort and filter that data to display it in a more useful way, complete with search capability. We then set up a local WAMP server to allow them to run the app locally.

North American Website Rebrand for HTC with Performance Boosting

• Agency Partner: HL2
• Year(s): 2009

Back in 2009, HTC was coming on the scene as one of the leading mobile device manufacturers but were struggling with little brand awareness with consumers, and a website that was ill-equipped for direct e-commerce. Ramping up for the launch of a series of new HTC-branded devices, they brought our agency partner HL2 in to develop all of the channel marketing materials for five new mobile phone launches, along with redesigning and redeveloping the HTC NA website. HL2 brought us in as a partner, and we placed one of our developers on-site for five weeks to build out the front-end of the website, adding various lightbox and scrolling effects, and updating the HTML and CSS for the best look and performance.

Monsters vs. Aliens Flash Game

• Agency Partner: DraftFCB
• Year(s): 2008

DraftFCB (now FCB Global) came to us with an intriguing idea. They were developing an online game based on Flash to promote the Dreamworks Studios movie "Monsters vs. Aliens." They tasked us with developing a way to record and display the top-ten high scores. We developed an API that put together endpoints for recording high scores, and then display them.

Truck-Lite Drupal Conversion

• Agency Partner: Sirius
• Year(s): 2016

Truck-Lite is a producer of LED safety lighting, forward lighting, wiring harnesses and other lighting solutions for trucks; and Sirius was tasked with their website redesign. Twelve23 was contracted to complete the content management system in Drupal to complement the site's eCommerce platform. The work involved setting up the web servers, creating a Drupal template, and adding custom functionality to Drupal for ease of use with Truck-Lite's specific content needs.

Custom greeting cards using Adobe Scene7 and JavaScript

• Agency Partner: Samantha Caudill, LLC
• Year(s): 2010

Samantha Caudill, a one-woman agency out of Ohio, contracted Twelve23 in 2010 to help with a project for her client Poppin Prints. At the time, Poppin Prints was a manufacturer of custom greeting cards, and they needed some tailor-made functionality to allow consumers the ability to personalize their greeting cards online by uploading images and having them appear over the card template of their choice. The challenge was rendering various sizes of image uploads in their actual sizes and dimensions on the card templates. When evaluating the end client's needs, we opted against a custom build and took advantage of features found in Adobe Scene7 to configure images. We then built a JavaScript wrapper application that would connect Scene7 with the site's CMS, which was managing the pages.

 

Thunderbolt Clean Energy Brand and Website Design

• Agency Partner: Eric Redman
• Year(s): 2016

Eric Redman engaged us to rebrand one of his clean energy companies, Thunderbolt Clean Energy, and design a brochure website for people to get information about the group.  Sensitive to his work with his other companies, Eric wanted a site more about himself and his mission, rather than one to compete in the landscape.  After a few rounds, we landed on color schemes, fonts, logos and the website was not far away. Ultimately we chose WordPress as the CMS and created a one-pager using a custom child-theme.

Rackspace Mailgun Plugin Rewrite

• Agency Partner: Lookahead Consulting
• Year(s): 2015

Lookahead Consulting took Twelve23 on as a partner to help with a project for Rackspace. The end-client needed to update and modernize their Mailgun plugin for WordPress, which employs a set of APIs that allow sending, receiving and tracking emails from a website. Twelve23 did a rewrite of the plugin while Lookahead Consulting developed a tutorial on it's use to be distributed on tutsplus.com.

Compare and Drive Performance Updates

• Agency Partner: 12th Street Consulting
• Year(s): 2016

Our long-time Canadian partner 12th Street Consulting engaged us to improve the performance of a custom-built WordPress website for Compare and Drive, an online service that lists cars for sale by trusted dealers, provides buying and information guides, shares industry news and provides a service inquiry platform. We made several performance updates to the site, including optimizing as well as refactoring and consulting on the code.

Manor Hardware Website Development with WordPress

• Agency Partner: Bullseye Graphics
• Year(s): 2016

In 2001, Munish was part of a team that hired Bullseye Graphics to brand the new online presence for JustFares.com with a logo, letterhead, stationary, etc. Fifteen years later, it was Bullseye's turn to reach out to Munish and Twelve23. We joined them on a website redesign project for their established client Manor Hardware. We were given an initial design concept, and then built a custom WordPress theme to achieve the design and to match the philosophies of Bullseye, as illustrated by many of their "Bullseye-isms."

 

Custom WordPress Theme Navigation Modification

• Agency Partner: 575 Inc.
• Year(s): 2016

When Jonathan Chicquette from 575 Inc. was about to become councilman and mayor of our neighbor city, Normandy Park, he knew his time would be at a premium, so he reached out to us for Agency-to-Agency support. Focusing his time on Brand Guidance and Business Strategy for his clients, he tasked Twelve23 to extend the WordPress theme of his client's website with custom navigation modifications that created a secondary menu dynamically based on links within the page.

Scene7 Logo Configurator for Overlay onto Golf Balls

• Agency Partner: Sirius
• Year(s): 2014

Sirius came to Twelve23 with a project for Golfsmith, a nationwide retailer. Golfsmith wanted users to be able to personalize golf balls with logos online for custom print orders. We decided to use the Adobe Scene7 framework. Starting with our own testing servers, we produced a dynamic JavaScript interface that employed Scene7 and Java REST to preview the customers' artwork on top of golf balls. Once designed, built and tested, we deployed the final product onto the end client's website.