Live sites: currently online
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TechNutopia is our own project, an expansion of CBI Web Design. It was originally created as a temporary place for members of the BearShare forums when they closed in June 2005. In time it became obvious those forums were not going to reopen, so we removed the BearShare name, rebranded it to TechNutopia, and developed it into a tech support website and community.
It remains a work-in-progress, with many new sections of the site to be opened in the near future.
Anmoltech Forums
Anmoltech hired us in 2007 to make their forums “look better”. They had already installed the stock installation of a popular forum software, and they asked us to spruce it up a little, which we did. We also included some customized add-ons to their forums for extra functionality to suit their needs.
At some point they reverted back to the stock installation, for reasons unknown to us, so all we have is the screenshot here, as small as it is, to show you how it looked when we worked on it.
British author Adam Greenwood hired us to build a website from scratch, when he published his first book, “Robin of the Wood”, in 2008. We worked closely with him to create the website he wanted, and we continue to maintain and update as it becomes necessary.
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We were the webmasters for BearShare.com from June 2002-April 2006, almost the entire time they were in operation. We were hired to completely redesign the original version of the site from the ground up, according to the company’s specs. We also added new sections, and performed regular search engine optimization on the site.
In the Fall of 2003 we did another complete redesign of the site, and then worked with them to add a ‘Featured Content’ area, which was an interactive section where visitors could browse and download free music and software.
We also administrated their community forums, which included the maintenance and upgrading of the forum software when necessary.
In April 2006 the company was sold to MusicLab (the makers of iMesh), and they took over all maintenance, updating and management of the site with their own in-house webmasters. For this reason the above link does not take you to the live site, since it has been changed from what we had done. Instead, you will be taken to the pre-MusicLab version of the site, which is exclusively our work. Due to its demo condition, not all the links are functional.
This was the parent company for the makers of the original BearShare software. It was a redesign, done exactly to the company’s specs. It is no longer online since the company closed its doors.
The original owner of BearShare asked us to not only redesign his gaming site for World of Warcraft, he also wanted us to migrate it from one brand of forum software to another brand (not as simple as it sounds). On top of that, there were extensive customizations and proprietary code to be added, for special functionality and features of the forum.
The site was never officially launched, and development was frozen in time, so here it is in that state. The logo was custom made by our graphic artist, fashioned after the font used by the main WoW website.
The good folks at Camping Cape Breton hired us to spruce up their site in early 2007. They had most of the work done, and they asked us to give it a more organized and consistent structure, and to optimize it for search engines. We did that, and brought it up to better usability and accessibility standards. It is presented here as it was when we last worked on it.
Rising Tide Expeditions is a new company that we helped launch by producing their website. The owners initially hired us in the summer of 2007 to create a one-page temporary site (based on their brochure) that would suffice until they could have their permanent, full-featured site built. When they were ready they again approached us to do the job, the results of which which can be seen here; again, presented here as it was when we last worked on it.