Current and Past Clients
The Soda 2010

Simple, user-maintainable cross-promotional site for The Soda Night Gallery. Designed for utility with social networking sites, particularly Facebook.

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Waiting For Approval

Joomla!-based website for Calgary-based Barry Commercial Real Estate. Project's developer is now Marketing Manager at Barry Commercial and also language file contributor for the com_jea project.

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In Progress

The Next Level Inc. is western Canada's largest alternative lifestyle accessory store. We are currently in the process of shooting and cataloging their entire inventory.

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Online; Current

Project uses BuddyPress and WordPress to create an unparalleled community experience for Drayton Valley area music festival Motion Notion.

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In Progress

KDK Wholesale is a Calgary-area distributor of smoking accessories and other products related to canna-business retail. We designed and implemented their online catalog in under 10 hours of development time.

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Online

In an arrangement with the University of Calgary Gauntlet Publication Society, one of our staff developed the website's current design in 2006 and is presently in the process of porting the existing 15,000 page website to a modern Joomla!-based CMS. Hairysquid consultant and developer Ændrew Rininsland is currently Production Editor there, where he also teaches weekly workshops on HTML, CSS and PHP.

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Online; Current

Social networking site for alumni of The Gauntlet Publications Society in conjunction with their 50th anniversary.

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Online

Community Carshare is an ambitious attempt to create a decentralized network of carsharing affiliates across Calgary. We are currently in the process of designing and implementing their multi-user reservation and booking portal.

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In Beta

In conjunction with photographer Chris Beauchamp, we helped design and develop the successful 2008 election campaign website for University of Calgary Students' Union Vice-President Events Kat Lord.

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Online

Hotbox Magazine is the publishing wing of the Hotbox Network, an alternative media collective based in western Canada. Our staff writes, edits, designs and photographs for Hotbox, as well as develops its marketing campaigns and website. We also are the primary agent for the Hotbox Network and are able to give our clients immense discounts on network advertising.

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Online; Current

Part of the Hotbox Network, we are helping to launch a free Internet streaming radio station dedicated to promoting up-and-coming artists in genres as diverse as folk and dubstep. Expect podcasts by Fall '09 and live streams within a few months of that.

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In Beta
Smokkr 2008

Smokkr.com is a community-run drug news link aggregator that combines the local coverage of projects like MAP with the social media aspects of websites like Digg. Part of the Hotbox Network, we implemented and customized the open-source Pligg 1.0 CMS to spec.

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Online
40303.org 2009

40303.org is an attempt to create a centralized listing service for Calgary-area electronic music events. Part of the Hotbox Network, its goal is to unite fans of diverse genres and promote the local electronic scene.

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Online

In conjunction with Keith Fagin of the Alberta420 network, we are working to create a centralized social networking community for cannabis legalization activists in Canada. The site will allow local organizers to generate self-configuring Joomla! installs for their city, enabling them to start a vibrant pro-cannabis web community very quickly and easily. Currently in beta, expect it to be fully operational by Q1 2010. Please contact us for a beta invite!

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Beta

In collaboration with community leader Keith Fagin, we have worked to help modernize and expand the Alberta420 cannabis legalization network by implementing interconnected Joomla! installs for each local activist cell in the province. In doing this, we have helped the Albertan cannabis community become one of the most technologically innovative and effectively organized legalization lobbies in the country.

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Online; Current
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