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Daylight is excited to be teaming up with New Zealand partner the Wise Group on a web development project.

Proud to announce the launch of the Behavioral Economics Summit for Startups conference website.  This conference, to benefit founders, designers, product people and all others who are designing or philosophizing user experience will be held in San Francisco on August 26-28th, 2011.

We are pleased to announce the launch of the website redesign for Cycle30 a Seattle-based order-to-cash billing service provider. Cycle30 desired to take their existing start-up brochureware website to a corporate, established structure to support the growth and depth of information now necessary for their business.

Daylight officially has its first client in Wisconsin.  We will be taking on a full redesign and development for Gordy’s Marine, located on beautiful Lake Geneva.  This will be a multi-phased project with initial look and feel updates tackled first. A complete FUEL CMS implementation will follow to drive their news, pre-owned boats, testimonials, events, employment and blog sections.  After this initial launch, a second phase will follow up with the launch of a new FUEL driven eCommerce engine to manage the current online retails sales.  More to come in the upcoming months, stay tuned…

Daylight will be working with Iris Capital Management Group on their new corporate website.  A newly minted capital management group looking for a sleek, modern looking online presence to match their new branding developed by Portland’s own Nate Retzlaff.  Should be an interesting FUEL driven website, with a password protected area for ICMG clients to review potential investment opportunities.  Stay tuned for more details to come.

Very excited to announce the launch of the Strong-Bridge website redesign.  This was a soup to nuts overhaul with every page, every word, every photo, every design line created new for the website.  Strong-Bridge, a consulting firm with offices in Seattle and Toronto, wanted to put the focus on their people, their services and the proof of what those two can do.

Daylight is pleased to announce the launch of Eugene-based CPA & Business Consulting Firm Kernutt Stokes new corporate website.  Having been in business for over 65 years, Kernutt Stokes recently revealed a new contemporary brand created by Capelli-Miles in the effort to separate them from other stodgy, conservative CPA firms. The main goal of the site redesign was to extend the new branding and update the website functionality.  The new website is modern, stylized and is driven by FUEL CMS, allowing internal personnel to control news, bios and case studies.

We have been fortunate to work with Central Valley Joint Venture for over 4 years and have just launched their new online presence.  The goals of the website was to update the overall aesthetic, but the functionality of the website as well.  The new website is driven by FUEL CMS allowing the internal CVJV team to edit several areas of the website.

We love our jobs.  We especially love when we are presented with an opportunity to help a client take the online presence to the next level and make a significant impact on their business. Initially referred by nearby longtime client Coeur d’ Alene Resort, the Wallace Inn was one of those opportunities. 

This week we finally took the leap and released FUEL CMS into the wild. Admittedly, it’s pretty scary to open up a large body of work for other people to dissect and critique especially after spending hundreds of hours working on it. However, we knew that in order for it to grow and mature the way we envisioned, it would need to expand beyond our small web development shop for others to test and contribute.

It’s been a while since our initial announcement regarding our CodeIgniter content management system, FUEL CMS. However, we’ve been making some steady progress fixing bugs, adding some features and creating the ever important documentation. Some of the biggest strides we’ve made have been in the form of a new User Guide and a Tester module.

Over the last couple of years, we’ve been gradually developing our own platform that we use for developing our client’s websites and it’s based on the popular CodeIgniter PHP framework. This post will give you a brief history, some insight into our reasoning behind creating this CodeIgniter CMS, explain what it is and provide a few highlights of the platform.

There is a Billy Joel’s song “The Entertainer” which goes “It was a beautiful song, but it ran too long.  If you’re gonna have a hit, you gotta make it fit. So they cut it down to 3:05.”  I think that sums up our first website well, a one pager for the first 7 years of the company.  In our defense it was mixture of love for the minimalist nature of it (just links to our work, client list and a very twitter-like news feed, pre twitter) and, in all honesty the ridiculous ease of updating.  But that was then, this is now. It was time for us to move on and put our best foot forward so to speak.