Philsquare news & more

One-page, clean design for a.r.c.

The feature of ARC’s new website is speed. The Philsquare team was able to complete this site in under 8 hours. We already had brand guidelines (as seen in the company video) and we were able to deliver a clean, simple design with just one page, as the client requested.

Secret message: the Philsquare logo

Now that we've launched our new website, we want to make sure we highlight the logo we had created for us last year. It now has a new color, based on our new branding, but it's the white space that we love the most.

During the logo development, Phil worked with Tom Avery, a great designer in Kansas City. There were a few design elements Phil wanted in the logo that Tom incorporated beautifully. 

Tagged: branding, logo, negative space, orange, philsquare

Philsquare Screencast: Intro to WordPress, one of our core frameworks

WordPress is a framework we talk about quite a bit in the Philsquare HQ. We teach workshops, consult on projects, and build websites and blogs using WordPress.

Philsquare built the following websites using WordPress:

• Lawrence GiveBack
• Lawrence Tweetup
• I Heart Local Music
• @free

Tagged: hd, video, wordpress, workshop

Introducing the new Philsquare

Been here before? If so, you’ve probably noticed quite a few changes. We’ve added some color, switched up the blog, put a bit of glam on the portfolio page and a whole lot more: basically, it’s like a home makeover with less dust and fewer tears (almost). Between client projects and our new site, we’ve got a lot of great things to show you. 

Here on the Philsquare blog, you can read about some of our completed projects. You can also head over to our portfolio and see the mobile and widescreen views of sites we've built. The about page features fun new avatars for our team, a list of the clients we've been honored to complete projects for and some of their kind words about our work. 

Tagged: logo, philsquare hq, website

Free birthday offers for @free

Josh Davis, with the @free twitter account, wanted a site where he could easily feature free birthday offers. He needed to be able to update the site himself and incorporate the many social media accounts he uses to promote and make @free so successful. 

Our goal was to build a content management site (CMS) that allows site manager to update content with new deals, allow for easy social media sharing and provide an attractive design to appeal to visitors. 

Tagged: atfree, custom logo, custom theme, free, social media, wordpress

Custom WordPress theme and admin panel for Lawrence GiveBack

The Philsquare team was very excited to be a part of the redesign and launch of the Lawrence GiveBack website. This great community project gives users a chance to give to their favorite charitable organization and earn a little bit back themselves as a part of their everyday local spending.

Constance Wolfe and the the Lawrence GiveBack team needed the ability to update the site with Lawrence Giveback news and easily add new merchant and charity information to the site directory. Ms. Wolfe requested the site to be built using WordPress, a popular content management tool for websites and blogs and the Philsquare team agreed this was the path to take.

Tagged: business, charity, custom theme, lawrence, local, mobile, responsive web, wordpress

The Story of Two Phils

We’ve received some feedback recently: no one thinks there are actually two people named Phil Martinez working at Philsquare. Philsquare is not named because there are two Phils working for the company (offour employees total) as some may believe. It is named because Phil Martinez (founder of the company) started developing a Foursquare-like service a few years ago back when Foursquare, Gowalla, andBrightKite were all brand new baby location based services. He wanted his name within the name of the service, thus Philsquare.

Tagged: design, fun, new, phil

Social networking site for local tweet up group

Lawrence Tweetup is a local Twitter user meetup organization that meets online and offline.  Its online presence needed social media intergration (obviously!) and a way to promote its events. This site development included WordPress installation, completely custom theme, plugin installation and modification and use of the Twitter API.

Tagged: #ltwup, custom theme, events manager, kansas, lawrence, social media, wordpress

Warm, professional business site with mobile version for Homeland

Our goal was to provide a professional looking website to showcase Homeland Insulation’s services and quality of work. The result was a friendly, warm site that features the benefits of insulating your home and why homeowners should chose Homeland.

Tagged: kansas, mobile, pyro cms, responsive web, small business, unique design