Boston-based RxCreative, the brainchild of my friend J Emerson Kohler, works at the crossroads between medicine and entertainment. Got a drab medical presentation that you need to spice up? Need some “fact-checking” for your hospital-based TV series? Talk to RxCreative!

We recently helped RxCreative establish a brand identity, complete with business cards and other print material, and develop an online presence at rxcreative.com. Bad Feather handled the branding, and we built the site. Medical Narratives. Narrative Medicine. RxCreative.

We built a simple web site for the New Mexico Rural Water Association (NMRWA) 5 years ago, and their tech-savvy staff has maintained the site content on their own ever since. The layout and code had started to show its age, though, so NMRWA recently hired us to revamp the site.

The new site is more responsive to the preferences of site visitors (it expands with the browser window, any modern browser can change the font sizes, etc), and is vastly improved under the hood (page semantics, accessibility, search-engine-optimization). The site integrates a phpBB-based forum, with simple theming to tie it in to the look and feel rest of the site.

NMRWA continues to maintain the site content, but now they’ve got a modern framework to build on! As always, we take it as the highest compliment that we’re able to maintain such long-term relationships with our clients.

Visit the new NMRWA site at nmrwa.org.

We just helped Washington CeaseFire launch a new, Drupal-based web site! From the site: “Washington CeaseFire is a statewide nonprofit organization dedicated to reducing gun violence in Washington state through education, research, and advocacy.”

The site is a relatively simple Drupal installation, with a handful of user-contributed modules. We helped WCF consolidate multiple legacy membership databases into the new site database. The new site will provide a platform for WCF to track membership, facilitate donations, and send newsletters.

On the graphic design side, there were a few challenges developing the Drupal theme from the mock-ups provided by their initial designer. In the end, we were able to stick to our coding “best practices” (semantic and mostly valid markup; reasonable Search Engine Optimization), and provide a flexible, adaptable user experience for both site visitors and site editors, while still matching the original mocks.

We had a great time working with the WCF folks and as always, we’re excited to help clients/friends get up to speed with this powerful tool. Drupal allows them almost complete control over the content of the site and their membership database, with an easy to use administrative interface.

Check out the new washingtonceasefire.org.

Last week we helped the Pratt Center launch a new blog called The Eminent Domain. From the site:

This website is a news, information and networking resource for New Yorkers working to influence the shape of their neighborhoods and make sure that development is an asset to their communities, not a force for displacement and destruction.

The site is built on WordPress, which serves as a simple content management system as well as a blogging platform: in addition to publishing blog posts about NY neighborhood development, the writers can manage the site’s pages and administer the site from WP’s administration area. It’s a powerful tool and we look forward to seeing The Eminent Domain’s contributors use it to promote just and equitable development in NYC.

Check out the site at theeminentdomain.org.

We worked with Parker Dockray to rebuild the Women’s Health Rights Coalition web site back when she was executive director there, and we’re proud to have just finished a site for the organization she joined recently, the California Coalition for Reproductive Freedom.

The new CCRF site is a lean, clean online “brochure” to replace the organization’s previous broken placeholder page. The code is easy to follow, and Parker’s stepping up to the plate (again) to do her own manual maintenance of the site.

Rhys and I are grateful that we can do creative work and provide simple, powerful tools for organizations like CCRF, to help them continue their own great work.