Cool New Media is a tiny web design studio founded by designer, front-end web developer and web consultant Kevin Slagboom. We build simple, readable web sites on top of standards compliant code and we're located in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
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Boeckh Investment Letter
The Boeckh Investment Letter is a comprehensive service that provides analysis of factors affecting financial markets and broad investment recommendations within an asset allocation context.
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Graham Boeckh Foundation
The Graham Boeckh Foundation (GBF) aims to improve mental health care in Canada by strategically leading and funding projects in basic research, research translation and community outreach.
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Website Health Check
Cool New Media is now offering a 35 point inspection of a Client's website operation. This website health check is designed to give clients a detailed report (3-6 pages of information) that includes the findings and a grade for various points and aspects of their website as well as provide some recommendations and prescriptions for improvement.
Cool New Media deploys WordPress for Phoenix Studios' website properties
Phoenix Studios came to Cool New Media looking for a developer to help setup and deploy a common CMS solution in order to modernize and replace its various custom HTML web sites. WordPress 3.x was the solution of choice as it was a good fit for the current presentation needs for all of Phoenix Studios sites.
Cool New Media working for Work at Play
Cool New Media has recently been contracted by Work at Play, a Vancouver based digital agency that provides strategy, creative, and development for large organizations and agency partners. Our role with Work at Play is to provide additional Drupal page building resouces so Work at Play can augment and increase their production capacity.
We are currently assisting in web page production work for one of their featured clients.
Technology Registrations Canada (TRC)
Collegues over at PHD Engineering needed Drupal and HTML/CSS development help on a new, large scale, website for Technology Registrations Canada (TRC). This project has been under development for a over 9 months and contains a step through self-assessment facility, in depth online application form, backend application for processing and process management, online study guide with exams.
Lesplan: News4Youth
Lesplan has a second website that they run to support and engage their readership in concert with their publications. Over the summer, we upgraded the News4Youth website from Drupal 5 to Drupal 6.
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Market City
Scenik Interactive, located in Perth, Western Australia, contacted Cool New Media to partner with them and to build a new website for the Perth Market Authority. The project was under the umbrella of MarketForce, a leading marketing and design agency in Australia and MarketForce Digital produced and lead the design as well as content strategy for the new website.
Broadmead Hearing Clinic
Broadmead Hearing Clinic is a healthcare provider offering hearing tests and hearing solutions for its clients. Broadmead Hearing Clinic came to Cool New Media as they were ready to migrate from a simple HTML website to a dynamic CMS powered solution and they needed a new solution in place before the launch of their second office located in Oak Bay, Victoria, BC.
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Gulf Islanders for Safe Technology
Gulf Islanders for Safe Technology (GIFST) is comprised of concerned island residents who have formed an ad hoc group to demand the right to have input on BC Hydro’s proposed WiMAX Smart Meter grid that will eventually blanket much of our communities with electromagnetic radiation. The community group came to Cool New Media to help deploy a quick and simple, yet rich looking web presentation. WordPress was chosen as the best solution given the news and information requirements of the group.
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