Equitas, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization in Charlotte, North Carolina that provides resources for people groups in developing nations to assist them in becoming sustainable communities.

I’ve been involved with Equitas for a while now – including some guest blogging spots.  It’s an impressive organization with an impressive mission of developing communities, using water and education, with the goal of helping them became sustainable.  So when the director came to me and asked if I’d help with some minor design tweaks and installing a content management system, I naturally jumped at the opportunity.

I also jumped at the opportunity to use MODx 2.0 Revo.  Even at this point as a “Release Candidate” this is the best CMS I’ve ever used.  It’s incredibly powerful and allows me to quickly build in the logic that is needed to make this site work.

Take a look at the site – and let me know what you think.  And, maybe even consider getting involved with the mission of Equitas.

http://www.equitas.cc

update: I’ve added some jQuery Tools work – using the scrollable tool to build the slideshow on the homepage. Let me know what you think.

CatherineEagan.com is the home of Catherine Eagan.  She “is an experienced and trusted voice empowering women with economic hope, solutions, and business opportunities.  Thousands of women worldwide look to her to share financial strategies to help them deal with the current economic chaos and still achieve financial success.”

There is lots of custom code under the hood of this site that syndicates content from various sources, including live feeds from the major stock markets on the home page.

The CatherineEagan.com home page

While I wasn’t involved in the design process, I was happy to lend a hand to NiaraDesigns.com to get this great site launched.

The Salvation Army Boys and Girls Clubs of Charlotte (http://www.bgccharlotte.org) have been in desperate need of a new website for some time.  Their old site was built on an aging system of outdated and unreliable technology and just bad design.

I was able to help them out with a fresh new design and a backend built on MODx.  MODx is, of course, an incredible Content Management System that, among other things, gives developers incredible freedom and flexibility to write php code that just works.

Here’s a quick shot of the site – as the clubs continue to reach out to the youth of Charlotte, this site should help bolster their toolset and continue to change the lives of young people!

While this isn’t a true Web and Flow Design site, it is a creation of mine.

As many of you would know, in addition to my Web and Flow projects, I work for The Salvation Army in North Carolina developing websites and internal tools among many other things.  Follow months of frustration with our old CMS, I researched and found MODx – an incredible system that hadn’t had an official “1.0″ release yet – but appeared solid, was incredibly extensible, and seemed to have a growing and dedicated following.

Long story short, I began developing a new website for the North and South Carolina Division based on MODx (now at 1.0.2) and it has been an incredible experience.  With an organization the size of The Salvation Army, we have information scattered everywhere that we needed to pull into a comprehensive website.

Another issue was that many of our 50+ offices needed a web presence but did not have the staff or the means to build one.  MODx has allowed us to create individual but incorporated sites and, for those that don’t want to or cannot edit content themselves, to push “default” content to keep their sites fresh and relevant.

We’ve obviously accomplished a lot more but these are definitely the highlights.

Oh, and the incredible improvement in traffic, response time, and reliability doesn’t hurt either

MODx is an incredible system and powers many of my recent sites.

The guys over at MODx have featured this site in their February Newsletter (which is a great way to kick off the new blog here, btw).  You can read that feature here.

Check out the Salvation Army Carolinas website at http://www.salvationarmycarolinas.org.

We’re also well into the planning stages of “Phase 2″ of our project which includes the development of many more web tools built on MODx!  Updates will come soon!