Our Portfolio
Blogging And Podcasting
Mad About Town
Mad About Town is a podcast about Athens, Georgia musicians. Each episode features a different musician interview, and each musician plays records by their major influences. Boxkite Media designed a podcasting and blogging platform, along with the permission system that supports multiple site editors.
Overheard in Athens
You never know who might be listening. Combining social content, geographical communities, and user input features like voting, submission, and ranking, Overheard in Athens has become a local favorite for students at the University of Georgia.
Overseen In Athens
Overseen in Athens is a site that blends community contribution with humor, reader commentary, and geographical location. Users submit photos, suggest captions, and comment on photos. Boxkite Media wrote the software that manages submission, commenting, and tagging, as well as user accounts.
The Draking Point
The Draking Point is a conservative political blog run by Drake Dunaway. Designed by Drake's brother, Kyle Dunaway, the Draking Point features editorial cartoons, animation, and audio content in English and Spanish. The Spool Podcasting and Blogging platforms are used to manage content, RSS feeds, and the mailing list.
Debate Organizations
Georgia Debate Union
We designed a new front end and a suite of content management tools designed especially for debate teams at both the college and high school levels. The first version of this Debate Spool to be launched is for the Georgia Debate Union, the competitive intercollegiate policy debate team at the University of Georgia. The Debate Spool includes management for team members and coaches, press and alumni relations, tournament schedules, a full featured blogging and contact system, and a permission management system that allows multiple people to manage different parts of the site. Each debate team that uses this tool will be working from the same code base, so when we make upgrades, everyone receives the benefit as part of their subscription.
E-Commerce
Planet Debate
Planet Debate is an enormous content-driven website aimed at high school debaters. Our task was to redesign the look and the content management system from the ground up. Planet Debate has nearly 30,000 users who have subscription-based access to 3,000 research files, 12,000 research links, and more than 80,000 evidence cards (quotations from books, magazines, etc.). We added in video and audio lectures, mailing list management, and a streamlined e-commerce system that handles file purchases and subscriptions. The front end has a new logo, a custom icon set to identify various content channels at a glance, and a tagging system that allows users to better search through the enormous quantity of content on the site.
The Pearl Girls
The Pearl Girls are pearl buyers that sell through their own network of sales representatives. They needed an e-commerce site that could handle commissions for their various salespeople, profiles for salespeople, and wanted content management so they could control their site. With a design by Old Guard Graphics, The Pearl Girls is a good example of the impact a well-developed e-commerce site can have on a small business.
iPhone Apps
Area Zip
Area Zip is a handy utility for quickly finding information about Area Codes and Zip Codes. Simply input an Area Code or a Zip Code and AreaZip will tell you what city, state, and time zone the result is in. You can also reveal the location in an embedded Google Map.
The application integrates with iPhone's built-in address book and will store a list of your recent searches. This option can be optionally disabled for privacy purposes.
Mapping
Athens-Clarke County Stormwater Department
The Athens-Clarke County Stormwater Department needed a mapping system to track incidents of dumping and flooding, as well as stream quality data. They also needed an interactive way for people to learn about watersheds, runoff, water pollution. We built a system that allows citizens to report dumping and flooding directly on the map. We also built a media room, including audio and video podcasting, an events calendar, a news blog, photo galleries, and a very cool Turtle Girl (designed by Leslie Dallion).
Riverway South
RiverWay South is designed to work with communities within the Apalachicola, Chattahoochee, and Flint watershed to preserve the environment while increasing the economic vitality of the region. The website features photo galleries, testimonials, and self-guided brochure, video, and audio tours from a variety of sources. The main feature of the site is an interactive map of the river. Important locations along the river, including everything from historic buildings to parks to boat ramps, are identified. New locations are submitted by users and are added to the map when approved by RiverWay South.
Non-Profit
Finca La Bella
Finca La Bella, a collective of organic farms in the Monteverde region of Costa Rica, need a web presence to advertise their produce and ecotourism packages. They grow their own coffee, and make their own packaging from recycled materials mixed with plant material from the coffee growing process. We designed an organic look for the site, as if it were constructed of the farms' produce.
Portfolio And Arts
Athens Soundies
Athens Soundies is a site devoted to DIY music videos from musicians in our fair city. The design was done by Andrew Parker over at Signal 7, and Boxkite Media coded the content management system that allows new videos to be added, organized, and viewed by people who love music.
Eikon Productions
Eikon Productions is a video and audio production firm located in Athens, GA. Starting from a design by Signal 7, Boxkite coded up the front end and deployed a custom version of the Spool that allows Eikon to manage their video portfolio, and area where clients can login and see proofs and progress, and their blog.
Kathryn Durfee
Kathryn Durfee, an animator and artist working out of Athens, needed a portfolio site to display her work and market herself to potential clients. Using our Spool content management system, she can manage news, portfolio items, and profile pages.
Publishing
Athens Exchange
Athens Exchange is an online magazine serving the Athens, GA area. Regular publication of articles on sports, music, and politics has expanded to include food, fashion, UGA campus news, and a major film section. Using local writers, Athens Exchange is written and maintained in large part by students learning to produce content in a new media environment.
Chronicle Network
The Chronicle Network is actually a network of news sites serving a large part of the country. They receive more than 30,000 visitors a day. We designed the entire content and user management system from the ground up. The content management system allows the editor to manage articles submitted by over 1,000 authors. Currently, the site contains nearly 100,000 articles spread over an enormous number of categories. All submission, editing, and publication takes place in the back office of the site. It is managed by a single person, part-time.
Real Estate
Aylesbury Commons
Aylesbury Commons is a patio home community in Augusta. The site uses Boxkite Media's Real Estate Spool to manage the sales and advertising of available properties in the development.
Full Circle Real Estate Group
Full Circle Real Estate Group is an Athens-based brokerage that concentrates on sales and leasing of sustainable or green properties. They're using Boxkite Media's Real Estate Spool, including a new mailing list manager that pulls property information directly from the database and creates HTML e-mails automatically.
University And Government
Fanning Institute
The Fanning Institute is a unit of Public Service and Outreach at the University of Georgia. We redeveloped their web presence from the ground up, including faculty profile management, class and event registration, project management, and conference planning.
JANUS Research Group
The JANUS Research Group is a tech company located in Augusta that specializes in simulation and modeling. The build interactive systems that allow people to map large amounts of terrain data, as well as working with training programs.
We built a full content management system for them that gives them control over all the images, video, and text content on their site. There's a Google Maps feature for their office and work locations, as well as a system for uploading and placing video on almost every page of the site.
STAR-LITE For The National Institutes of Health
STAR-LITE is a realistic training environment that teaches students about laboratory safety. Developed by the National Institutes of Health with Janus Research, STAR-LITE is based on the popular Quake 2 graphics engine, making it a training simulation with the look, feel, and flexibility of a modern video game. We developed the website that delivers the training application, manages support requests and comments, and manages companion material for the educational institutions that use STAR-LITE.
A custom version of the Spool was created, including a FAQ and Help Note system, a support ticket system with two way communication, and a new blog for announcements and upgrades.
UGA At Oxford
The UGA at Oxford Program has been in existence for nearly twenty years. One of the most successful programs on campus, the program is a big reason that the University of Georgia has risen to rank in the top five in the nation for University student participation in study abroad programs. They offer over 90 different courses in a wide variety of majors and subjects. The design of the site is by Old Guard Graphics and we did the javascript work, created the pagewrapper, and implemented the database.
UGA Graduate Student Association
The Graduate Student Association of the University of Georgia needed a website that helped them communicate with their constituency. We used a simple, elegant design that allowed for easy content management. The GSA is able to manage every part of their website, form blogging to posting videos to editing the leadership pages through the Spool, and the system is easy enough that new people can learn to update it every year as their leadership changes.
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