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sta
STA found themselves saddled with a legacy site, hard coded in HTML and difficult to update for their in-house staff. As a result, their online image had become stale and discombobulated. Behold directed the project through an intentional process, from project specification, information architecture, and wireframing to design and CMS implementation. Their new site relies on a set of highly specified Drupal Views and the exceedingly helpful Context module for site organization. Using the 960 grid at GetSkeleton.com, the site is a responsive layout, crafted for viewing on both desktop and mobile platforms. Though the site has a number of complex Views, Behold achieved the client's primary request of ease-of-use with a simple tagging hieararchy that determines what goes where. The visual elements are inspired by the scan lines and pixelation of monitors and computer displays, apropos to the client's technology focus.
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YFC International
The Youth for Christ International site redesign and development was a sprawling project, encompassing concept, design, and heavy backend and frontend development within Wordpress. The result is a megasite with over 125 subsites relying on complex parent and sibling themes and meticulous customization to achieve as much automation as possible. The folded paper design motif serves to tie the site together. The dynamic donation cart Behold developed is a glimpse of jQuery's wondermaking powers, fed by Wordpress' custom taxonomies on the backend. The sitewide international map is one of our rare Flash implementations and responds fully to site information changes within Wordpress so no Flash rebuilding is necessary. YFCI.org registers as Behold Creative's most ambitious project to date and has won high praise.
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Agape Ireland
Agape Ireland's request was twofold: create a striking website for delivering resources to Irish university students and an alternative to Agapé's strong but dated logo. For years I had been saving the dandelion for the right project. It is an image rich with symbolism: the spiritual significance of death that multiplies new life, being carried along by the wind or spirit, and being wild but beautiful. With the theme of Agapé's website — movement — I decided it was high time. So, for the website, the dandelion is central, caught in a breeze of curvaceous lines, its achenes carried along with the winds. The logo for Agapé's student movement in Ireland, "Student Life", received scribbled text, "life" in bold, and again, a dandelion achene.
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ProjectServe.org 2009
The website Beho!d designed for ProjectSever.org in 2007 had been a huge success, and as we contemplated a redesign, I wondered whether we'd be able to improve on the original. Nonetheless, developed in conjunction with Project Serve's 2009 Trip Catalog, the end product was warmly received. The design, exploding with color, announces its mission in bold type: love, serve. Beho!d worked closely with Project Serve Marketing to prioritize lead driven links and meticulously wrote and rewrote copy to optimize search engine results, earning an invaluable first page listing on Google for the relevant keywords.
