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July 28, 2011
New Signature and Glen Echo Group Launch Gig.U Website
By New Signature
New Signature teamed with the Glen Echo Group on the Gig.U website. New Signature designed the logo and website for Gig.U and built the website on the WordPress publishing platform.The University Community Next Generation Innovation Project, or Gig.U, is a broad-based group of almost 30 leading research universities from across the United States. Drawing on America’s rich history of community-led innovation in research and entrepreneurship, Gig.U seeks to accelerate the deployment of ultra high-speed networks to leading U.S. universities and their surrounding communities. Improvements to these networks drive economic growth and stimulate a new generation of innovations addressing critical needs, such as health care and education.
New Signature built the Gig.U website with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. The WordPress publishing platform provides the Gig.U team with the ability to manage content and provide members with a password protected Members Only section.
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June 23, 2011
New Signature Helps Working America Relaunch “My Bad Boss Contest” Website
By New Signature
Working America, the community affiliate of the AFL-CIO, today relaunched its “My Bad Boss Contest,” once again looking for the worst of the worst in bad bossdom. New Signature created the visual identity and design, illustration, style guide and performed the HTML/CSS cutup for Working America’s new iteration of this wildly popular website.Working America’s My Bad Boss Contest is an opportunity for workers to speak out about the difficulties they face every day on the job. Visitors can share stories about their worst Bad Boss experience—and have the chance to win some great prizes. Each week visitors to Working America’s My Bad Boss website will vote for the worst of the week. Prizes will be awarded each week and the grand prize will go to the worst of the worst chosen.
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June 16, 2011
AFL-CIO Launches “Collective Bargaining. Real People. Real Impact.” Campaign Website
By New Signature
New Signature worked collaboratively with the AFL-CIO to visualize the “Collective Bargaining. Real People. Real Impact.” Campaign Website. The New Signature team then created the compelling visual design and user interface. We then built the website using the powerful and flexible WordPress publishing platform.The website features three videos produced by the AFL-CIO and Laughing Liberally that use comedy to highlight the importance of collective bargaining to all Americans. Social media integration played an important role in the site design, to encourage visitors to share the videos and the website.
The site also acts as a compelling and comprehensive resource on everything you need to know about collective bargaining and the latest news on the topic. This includes a range of multimedia content, including news, editorials, reports, compelling graphs and documentary videos of real workers discussing the positive impact that collective bargaining has provided them.
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June 7, 2011
New Signature launches Days of Molecular Medicine Conference Website for AAAS
By New Signature
New Signature has launched a new website for the Days of Molecular Medicine Conference for for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The event, which is happening between November 10th-12th, 2011 in Hong Kong, will explore the interface between tissue engineering and stem cell biology.We built this website using the the Conference Organizing Distribution (COD) distribution of Drupal, which packages together features and functionality to assist in building conference and event websites. The platform includes features for:
- Session submission, voting and moderation
- Session schedule grid, Personalized attendee schedules
- Event registration and attendee management
- Sponsors management
New Signature worked with AAAS to design and deploy this website. If you need help building an event website, please contact us today.
Did you know that New Signature also has an event management team who has deep experience assisting in event planning, production and on-site support? If you have any event planning needs, please contact us today to learn more about what we offer and how we can help.
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April 22, 2011
Social Microfunding — New Signature Helps ioby Bring Environmental Projects to Life, Block by Block
By New Signature
**Update: Check out our new post: Drupal 7 Commerce in action for ioby.org**New Signature worked with ioby to design and build a new social microfunding web service that connects people and money to site-based environmental projects. All of the projects funded through ioby are conceived, designed, and run by neighbors—which ensures community buy-in, long-term caretakers and daily reminders of what’s been achieved. The website provides a five step process to empower visitors to help make a difference: (1) pick a project, (2) nurture it through funding, (3) follow the results, (4) get your hands dirty and inspire others, and (5) prepare for great things. The optional sixth step is “rinse and repeat”.
New Signature used Drupal 7 as the platform for the ioby website. Drupal 7 provided a powerful and flexible platform that answered ioby’s need for a robust e-commerce and collaborative social community solution. New Signature developed the ioby Drupal 7 website to be fast, responsive and handle huge amounts of traffic. The website uses Drupal’s rich social networking integration to make it easy for visitors to share what they have learned on ioby and build their own network of ioby donors and volunteers through their profile page. The ioby website leverages Drupal Commerce–a professional e-commerce solution for Drupal 7. New Signature utilized Drupal Commerce to present a simplified and streamlined process to the visitor, empowering them to easily move from project selection through checkout and payment. New Signature further extended the Drupal platform through the use of contributed and custom modules.
New Signature also employed other web technologies and services in building the ioby website. For example, jQuery–a fast and concise JavaScript Library–was employed by New Signature because of its lightweight footprint, CSS3 compliance and cross-browser compatibility. New Signature also utilized the Google Maps API to provide visualization of the large number of projects interactively.
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April 12, 2011
Protocol Staffing Services Website Launches
By New Signature
New Signature designed and built the new website for Protocol Staffing Services–a division of Occasions Caterers, one of Washington’s premier catering companies. The creative and unique website matches this unique company that is recognized for creativity and flawless execution. For over twenty years, Protocol Staffing Services has been behind the scenes of Washington DC’s most memorable and historic social events. From the annual Corcoran Ball to Inaugural events and fundraisers, their staff has been an intricate part of each event’s success.New Signature designed the website to extend this established and powerful brand online and ensure that the design of the website is as memorable as the events the firm staffs. New Signature’s graphic designers created a visually compelling homepage design that exemplifies the top-quality services Protocol Staffing Services provides to their clients. We also provided guidance and expertise to ensure that the website is user-friendly, easy to navigate, provides effective and easy-to-read information, and makes it easy for existing or prospective clients to contact the Protocol team.
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March 31, 2011
Down Syndrome Network of Montgomery County Unveils New Logo and Website
By New Signature
The Down Syndrome Network of Montgomery County (DSNMC) have unveiled a new logo and website–both designed by New Signature. New Signature provided branding expertise to the DSNMC and re-envisioned the organization’s brand by creating a new logo and brand guidelines. New Signature also conceived and built a new website that helps the Down Syndrome Network of Montgomery County to empower and support individuals with Down syndrome, their families and the community through education, information, public awareness and advocacy. The website is focused on three core audiences: families, health care professionals and educators. To these audiences the website provides online resources, facts about Down syndrome and upcoming events.The website is built on the Word Press 3 publishing platform. WordPress is an open source Content Management System (CMS), often used as a blog publishing application, powered by PHP and MySQL. It has many powerful features including a plug-in architecture and a template system and can be extended to support practically any website requirement. WordPress is one of the most widely used CMSes and is available free.
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March 29, 2011
New Signature Creates State Radio Activism Website
By New Signature
New Signature teamed up with HeadCount, Calling all Crows, State Radio and Rogue Global Solutions to create the “Take Action for Troy Davis” activism website. The website features multiple actions that supporters can take to show their support of Troy Davis, and upon taking action, enables them to download previously-unreleased tracks from the band State Radio. The actions hook into the Salsa platform and provide supporters the ability to sign a petition on Troy’s behalf, write to their local paper about their support for Troy, or email their support to Troy directly.The website also pulls in recent Twitter, Facebook and Google News items to show the vast support the campaign from the social networks and news organizations. In addition, the Disqus module is used to facilitate discussion on the website and to allow supporters to add their comments for the cause.
Troy Davis is currently on death row for a 1991 conviction of murdering a Georgia police officer, though for nearly two decades the case against him as fallen apart. Seven of the nine prosecution eyewitnesses who had linked Davis to the killing have unofficially recanted or contradicted part of their original trial testimony, claiming police coercion and questionable interrogation tactics. However, since none have made a formal recantation as required by law, Davis is still up for execution.
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March 8, 2011
“I Am Working America” Website Launches
By New Signature
Working America, community affiliate of the AFL-CIO, launched the I Am Working America campaign website today. New Signature provided strategic recommendations, helped develop the campaign concept, then worked to design and produce the website. The site is powered by the Drupal publishing platform, and is supported by the JQuery JavaScript library and utilizes HTML5 and CSS3. In addition, we leverage JSON integration with Drupal to poll for site content updates, and dynamically show updates in real time.This timely and engaging website asks visitors to stand up and declare their support for the rights of working Americans, and empowers visitors to make their own statement on the website about how they participate in the American workforce that will then be shared with the social world through seamless social networking integration.
Working America, community affiliate of the AFL-CIO, is a powerful force for working people. They combine the strength of 10 million union men and women and millions of workers without the benefit of a workplace union who share common challenges and goals to fight in communities, states and nationally for what really matters–good jobs, affordable health care, world-class education, secure retirements, real homeland security and more.
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February 18, 2011
New Signature Launches サイエンス誌 (Science Magazine Japan)
By New SignatureNew Signature has launched a redesigned Science Japan website using the the Drupal content management system for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Science Japan is the Japanese language website for AAAS’ publications: Science Magazine, Science Signaling and Science Translational Medicine.
New Signature worked with American and Japanese stakeholders to define the requirements for the website, including strategic direction on how to engage target audiences in Japan. We also designed an improved editorial workflow that replaced a system that was largely offline. This new process enables the Japanese translation team to directly edit content on the website. This change improved quality of the content and simplified the process–reducing the labor required to manage content translation and allowing content to be added more quickly. Our graphic designs and user experience experts updated the visual design and improved the visitor’s experience. This improved user experience ensures that the important content on the site is accessible.
The new website home page now features a cross-publication content rotator, an alerts section for important news and updates, featured spots for all three publications, and an event and announcement list for content specific to the Japanese audience. Each publication has a landing page for the current issue, as well as a large archive of historical content. In addition, custom RSS feeds are now available for every publication’s issue and articles, and New Signature implemented a custom Google search module so that all content on the site is searchable in Japanese and results are returned inline. (more…)
