Portfolio

AIDS Walk For Life Vancouver 2010

Last year, we redesigned the Vancouver AIDS WALK website and this year they called upon us again to re-skin their site for the 2010 WALK. Within the past year, the Scotiabank AIDS WALK for LIFE took a new direction - changing its location, focus and branding. They wanted to target a younger audience and get them to take action. We jumped all over the new branding and made sure that visitors to the site could easily register, donate or volunteer for the WALK by creating a home page that highlighted those three actions. Of course, the site is all hooked up to ExpressionEngine to make updates easy.

Open Rate Consulting

Open Rate is a new marketing consulting company based in Toronto. They wanted their online presence to showcase their experience & social media savvy. We created a professional and contemporary website informed by their current branding to convey an approachable and trustworthy face to the small and large businesses they wanted to attract. The website is powered by a simple to use CMS so Open Rate can make text changes whenever they need to without the help of a web developer.

Everybody Likes Sandwiches

Everybody Likes Sandwiches is the award-winning food blog of our very own web designer, Jeannette. Her popular blog had been hosted on Blogspot for five long years and was in need of a serious design shake-up, along with a move to her own custom domain and a move to WordPress. We created our own custom theme with better functionality and all the features she needed, like a bangin’ new recipe index. She’s happy and her readers are happy. It’s the perfect recipe for blogging success!

Joto eNews (Email Newsletter)

Joto Paper, a leader in the digital decoration industry, had just launched their new website and came to Matchbox to give their email newsletter a facelift. Not only did we provide the clean and modern look they were after, but we gave them a template coded according to email best practices. By making their code as nice as the new design, their email newsletter functions great even if the user has images turned off and delivers near pixel-perfection in all email clients, including Outlook.

AIDS Walk For Life Vancouver 2009

The Vancouver AIDS Walk For Life is a yearly event which raises money to provide persons living with HIV and AIDS in Vancouver with healing therapies that are otherwise not covered by the health care system. The AIDS Walk already had a strong web presence through their Facebook page, Twitter account, and online pledge system, but needed a branded “home base” where they could properly direct donors and participants. We used ExpressionEngine so that the staff at BCPWA can manage the site’s content themselves and we will be able to re-skin the site quite easily year-to-year.

Got Craft?

Got Craft? puts on Vancouver’s largest (and best!) indie craft fair. Held the first Sunday of May and December, Got Craft? features over 55 local and handmade vendors selling everything from clothing to jewelry to ceramics and wall art. Their newly redesigned website makes it easy for both visitors and vendors to get the crafty information they need. We installed a CMS to allow Got Craft? to quickly update their site anytime.

“All we have are good words to describe how great it was to work with you both.  You guys made everything easy to understand, super accessible and of course, the design work was absolutely amazing. A big thank you for all of your hard work and we look forward to working with you on future projects!” – Andrea Tucker, Got Craft?

The Beautiful Project (Email Newsletter)

The Beautiful Project is a side project of our web designer, Jeannette Ordas. When she’s not designing kick-ass websites, she illustrates and designs kick-ass greeting cards filled with a bit of sweet and a lot of sass. Her email newsletter is the best way to keep in contact with her customers, keeping them informed of new products and special subscriber sales.