It’s been an uncharacteristically long time since we’ve done an overhaul of MatthewGood.org. Over the last few years we’ve worked on over a half dozen versions of the popular Canadian musician’s website, and in the process Matthew has become a part of the BraveNewCode team, now contributing his design talents to future projects.

In this most recent re-design of his website we’ve added a couple key innovations which serve its long list of registered members well.

The first major addition is the ability to switch the main view of the website’s entries from the default listing of excerpts over to a full post view, something rarely employed on blogging platform-based websites due to its intensive code requirements. This feature degrades gracefully for those without cookies or javascript in use.

The next feature was the custom addition of a modified “My Favourite Entries” plugin. We added to the plugin and built it to work with MatthewGood.org’s community to add the ability for logged in users to save those entries they’d like to revisit or remind themselves of in the sidebar.

Design-wise Matthew ponderously selected every detail of its presentation, and (as always) it has resulted in a pixel-perfect design, which is clear, concise, and innovative. MatthewGood.org remains one of the progressive and unique homes for quality blogging on the web.

The whole project is chalk full of small but thorough improvements, changes, & feature enhancements. It is (in our opinion) arguably the best all around version of the site that we’ve collectively worked on to date.

Jessie Farrell is an emerging Canadian Country talent whose gorgeous voice, playful personae and infectious music took the CCMA’s by storm this year, garnering her 7 nominations and winning 3 awards for herself.

We recently launched her new website for her, and are proud to have worked for such a talented performer. When initially contacted we jumped at the opportunity to create a unique site for her that allowed us to explore some new ground in design and development.

The site features a large header banner which immediately sets the tone for the layout, something which we wanted to be both memorable while also user-friendly, with a clear navigation list up top and a place for important updates/information to be shared.

The rest of the website follows an easy to understand layout, with a combination of pinks, browns, and dirty blues to give a modern chic mixed with a classically country feel.

We worked quickly to get the site launched for Jessie before the CCMA’s, and are proud of the end result. We still have more work to do on the site, and will be adding a few new features for Jessie in the near future, including multimedia features and an integrated store.

Jessie had this to say about our work:

I just wanted to send you a note and thank you so much for meeting the deadline before the CCMA’s and doing such a great job!

Thanks for creating such a clear, stylish, and effective design.

Thanks again!

Jessie

You’re welcome Jessie! And thank you for the opportunity- we look forward to our continued work on your website to make it even better.