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Marin Christian Academy

dhightower — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:43:29 +0000

Marin Christian Academy in Marin County, CA, provides an environment of love, safety, and dedication to excellence, in which students can grow and prosper. They offer a challenging and diverse curriculum designed to develop critical thinking skills and a love of learning in their students. They offer many enrichment activities such as music, art, technology, sports, reading remediation, academic contests, and Student Government to augment their regular class instruction.

They wanted a site update that reflected their values, vision and culture.

Technologies used:

WordPress
NextGEN Photo Gallery
HTML
CSS
PHP

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New Life Christian Center

dhightower — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:11:07 +0000

As a thriving church in Novato, CA, New Life Christian Center’s leadership wanted an updated website, a modern look and an accessible Content Management System. WordPress was the CMS of choice for this project, with lots of custom plugins for highlighting their unique ministry.

Technologies used:

HTML/CSS
WordPress
jQuery
PHP

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The Gideons International Blog

dhightower — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 20:11:51 +0000

The Gideons International began distributing the Word of God in 1908. Today, with 290,000+ members and 1.6 billion+ distributed Bibles and New Testaments worldwide…the blog is an outlet providing fresh ministry updates.

Technologies used:

Thesis Framework
WordPress
HTML
CSS
Flash
PHP

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The Burn 24-7

dhightower — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 20:06:07 +0000

The Burn 24-7 is a global worship & prayer ministry with the goal of establishing furnaces of intercession across the world.

Technologies used:

WordPress
jQuery
HTML/CSS
PHP

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The Two Birds In Love

dhightower — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 20:00:59 +0000

The Two Birds in Love are a music duo hailing from Nashville, TN. They wanted a site promoting their music and telling their story.

Technologies used:

WordPress
Flash
HTML/CSS
PHP

Dave Hightower Music

dhightower — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:51:21 +0000

Dave Hightower Music is my music site. I post songs, recording info, and worship resources on it. It’s pretty straightforward—I did want the homepage to have a “bloggish” feel to it.

Technologies used:

HTML/CSS
jQuery
WordPress
Flash
PHP

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Believe Media, Inc.

dhightower — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:43:51 +0000

Believe Media, Inc. was a startup video ministry from Norfolk, VA.

Technologies used:

HTML/CSS
YouTube Integration
Flash

Impact Media Systems

dhightower — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:35:34 +0000

Impact Media Systems, Inc., specializes in audio and video media installations, particularly medical and dental hi-tech office solutions. They wanted an online presence to market their services, and needed a CMS to update posts and pics.

Technologies used:

WordPress
jQuery
HTML/CSS
PHP

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Regent University Internship

dhightower — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:15:43 +0000

I worked for Regent University for 7 months building websites, custom images and animation. One great thing about this environment was a chance to dig in with iTunes U.

Technologies used:

Flash
ColdFusion
iTunes U Integration
HTML
CSS

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The Medium is the Message

dhightower — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 17:26:44 +0000

Great article on how design affects the power of content. There was a book that came out in 1967 called The Medium is the Massage, by Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore, that dealt with the same issue. It’s still a very relevant subject in print and on the web.