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Heal the Bay

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Post date June 18, 2020

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Design and Project Management by verynice

This was a WordPress build where Rosebud Designs collaborated with local agency verynice. This was a complex build, requiring us to move from an old Drupal build and also requiring us to move several years’ worth of blog posts and keep everything intact, including authors, categories, photos, and copy. A designer from verynice provided the design for the custom theme, and Rosebud Designs handled all coding and consultation, and customized the admin panels in WordPress to make updating content easy for Heal the Bay. Rosebud Designs also handled building different functions needed for the site, including the display of job postings, intake forms, and connecting to their third-party donation service.

The result is one of the more complex WordPress builds Rosebud Designs has handled, but the site is still going strong after a few years!

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Invisible People

Post author By jenn
Post date June 16, 2020

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Website: https://invisiblepeople.tv

Design and Project Management by verynice

Rosebud Designs partnered with a frequent (and favorite) collaborator, verynice, on this project. Invisible People educates the public about homelessness and encourages the public to learn about the issue and realize how complex it is, and also arms people with the tools to advocate for the homeless community.

The website build itself was one of the most complex designs created and coded for a custom theme, and as far as functionality was concerned, there were two different post types to contend with, as well as a complex tagging system that spanned both post types. Another complicating factor in this build was that Invisible People had almost 10 years’ worth of content that needed to be migrated into a new WordPress build, and almost all of that content needed to be separated into two different post types — the stories and news articles were originally mashed into posts. The result of this work is a more compelling website that is easy to navigate and better showcases not only the video stories but also offers more breadth and depth to what Invisible People does right away.

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826 National

Post author By jenn
Post date June 16, 2020

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Website: https://826national.org

Design by Shannon Doronio

826 National is an organization dedicated to fostering a love of reading and creative writing and self-expression to underprivileged children across the country. The organization has chapters in several cities, as well as an online platform for educators to access if they don’t have an 826 chapter in their area.

This website was a migration into WordPress from a different CMS. 826 National wanted to move to WordPress to manage content much more easily, and also wanted to reimagine its home page to showcase its chapters much more easily and show the impact of its work off the bat.

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USC Price Center for Social Innovation

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Post date November 20, 2018
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The Price Center for Social Innovation is a research center based out of the Sol Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California. The Center wanted a redesign of their old site, which was a WordPress site but had limited capabilities. They wanted to be able to handle various content types and have a place to put in their considerable amount of research, and let people sort through the research database by several different categories and authors. Rosebud Designs handled the redesign, site architecture, code, and migration of content to a new WordPress site.

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Rancho La Puerta

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Post date August 4, 2014

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Design and Project Management by Juliana Giacini

Rosebud Designs’ role: WordPress template design, coding, and implementation; consulting for new functions, regular maintenance; integration of third-party booking service.

Rancho La Puerta is a spa and resort located in Tecate, Mexico, and is considered a pioneer in the spa movement. This was an extensive project that involved not just a redesign and a rebuild of their site, but also a re-imagining of their user experience and site flow. The previous site was written entirely in HTML and sprawled over 500 pages. It was difficult to maintain and also had overwhelming navigation and poor flow; even staff members who took reservations and questions over the phone from guests would get lost navigating their own site.

With the new site, the Ranch staff expressed a desire to be able to manage all their own content and be able to integrate an extensive event calendar, a blog, and social media components. The result is the new Rancho La Puerta site, which integrates inviting photography, a simpler navigation bar, and carefully placed calls to action on each page. The original 500 pages were also pared down to almost half, consolidating information where needed. Several complex forms were also integrated into the site so guests could inquire about reservations, book classes and spa treatments, and fill out pre-arrival information.

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Rantze + Raves

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Post date November 20, 2018

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Website: https://rantzeandraves.com

Design and art direction by George Wilson and Lizz Rantze

Rantze + Raves is a Los Angeles-based production company, and Lizz wanted a snazzy new site that better showcased her video and visual work and also would have a more robust blog. The result is a dynamic, fun site that reflects Lizz’s awesome personality and wide-ranging video work.

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Caroline’s Coffee

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Website: https://carolinescoffee.com

Design by Grady Fike, Capital & Company

Caroline’s Coffee is an artisan coffee roaster and shop located in Grass Valley, CA. The owners wanted to integrate a new design and a new content management system for their site so they wouldn’t be dependent on contacting another developer to make changes to the site.

Grady Fike provided a new design, and Rosebud Designs built it in WordPress. The new site incorporates a WooCommerce shopping cart system, so the owners can easily add and manage their extensive array of products, and so customers can easily order from them. The site also brings together an already existing blog and puts everything under one roof for easy management so the folks at Caroline’s can focus on their great coffee instead of wrangling over site maintenance.