On 10/1/2009, Corporate 3 Design launched a teaser site for Methodist Women’s Hospital, a new hospital opening in West Omaha, June 2010. Methodist Women’s Hospital is focused on care for women, including birth services. Among the unique features and services of the new hospital:

• 28-bed Level III NICU
• Outdoor Roof-top Garden
• Healing Garden
• Spacious hotel-style private rooms
• 24/7 room service
• 6 suite-like, high-risk obstetrics rooms

Visit: Methodist Women’s Hospital
Visit: Methodist Health System
Visit: Corporate 3 Design

Corporate 3 Design has completed the first phase of a two-part launch for Methodist Hospital Foundation. Built upon our GenX2 Content Management System, Corporate 3 Design completely redesigned and developed www.methodisthospitalfoundation.org. The first phase was to construct a new layout and design, integrate with our GenX2 CMS, and migrate content from their previous static site. The second phase, currently in progress, will include additional content development, an enhanced donation section, and a modular registration application for their events.

One of our current development trends has been the use of CSS Sprites, With Methodist Hospital Foundation, all of the primary graphic elements are site are called from one image file. In addition to the benefits of file management and organization, the use of CSS sprites also helps to reduce the bandwidth profile of the site, an image file loaded once, and in cached use throughout the duration of a user’s visit to the site. Below is the sprite image from the site as an example of how Corporate 3 Design is using sprites.

On Friday, we launched the revised version of Corporate3Design.com, our corporate web presence. The new site features a redesigned look and feel, integrating with our social media presences, and improved navigation to sub-sections within the site.

But the core feature behind the new site is something you can’t see. We’ve migrated the site to our GenX2 CMS, our content management system. GenX2 CMS is scalable module-based content management system we’ve spent the last year building which you’ll be hearing more about soon.

We are also tying together our Social Media activities. On the new site, you can follow our Twitter stream, or join us on Facebook.

Bloggers, WordPress 2.8 was released today. As usual, it is recommended that you upgrade your blog as soon as possible. While you are at it, blog updates always make a great time to archive and backup your blog files and database, especially if you do not maintain a regular backup schedule.

If you are using an outdated version of WordPress, there are many changes under the hood including a faster admin interface, security updates and over 790 bug fixes. If you aren’t familiar with the underlying system of Wordpress or have been neglecting your Wordpress-based blog, give Corporate 3 Design a call. We can bring your site up to speed, as well as provide you with a backup of your existing files including your database (an item often neglected) for $150. Contact Shawn at 402.398.3333 extension 205 or  studio@c3design.com for more details.

Calvary Christian Church, a progressive, non-denominational Christian Church located in Bellevue, Nebraska, approached C3D for a new look to their brand. Having no previous “logo” or true brand awareness to worry about losing, Corporate 3 was given a clean slate to work with. The main challenge lied in that to accompany the core CCC logo, there needed to be a cohesive look that could be carried throughout the 5 existing ministries within the Church, as well as be adaptive to future ministries. Along with the 5 ministries, almost all consisted of multiple programs within that either carried their own logo/identity, or needed a new logo to represent the programs. The result. C3D created a flexible brand mark and naming convention in which all 18 identities could play nicely together while maintaining the core branding of CCC and while allowing further expansion of new ministries and programs.

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Although this was not a C3D project, it is a representation of what good branding can do.

Landor Associates was tasked with creating a brand for the Burj Dubai, what will be the tallest building in the world. One task was to create a brand that would help sell  apartments for the Burj before the foundation was even poured. “In less than 24 hours, every apartment-to-be was spoken for, netting more than half a billion dollars. Even by the heady standards of the region, the branding of the Burj Dubai was off to an exceptional start.”

Click here to read more.

Midlands Choice today launched their new web site. Corporate 3 Design provided layouts, design, CSS template structure and jQuery effects, for a site built upon the Cascade content management system (implementation internally by Midlands Choice).

Visit: midlandschoice.com
Visit: Corporate3Design.com

Corporate 3 Design launched a redesigned web site for West Asset Management, www.westassetmanagement.com. The redesign of the site included restructuring the site architecture, a refreshed layout/design and conversion from a table-based layout to a CSS/XHTML layout; built upon a Coldfusion foundation. The Careers section, while integrated within the site, also stands alone at www.westassetmanagement.jobs.

The site is built upon a custom CMS (content management system), and features JQuery effects, Adobe Flash, and Adobe PDF components.

Related Links:
West Asset Management
Jobs at West Asset Management
Corporate 3 Design

Yeah right! So at 5:20 this morning, I put on the news to see what the day is going to be like before the kids wake up. I see the crawl at the bottom of the screen, then look out the window, then look at the crawl again. Really? All schools are cancelled?! Hmmm, strange considering there isn’t one flake of snow falling and what he did have has long since melted. Jump to 8:30 AM. I proceed to wonder and begin to Twitter thinking it’s insane that school was cancelled.

Then…

I figured to save time later I would clean off the car at lunch time. The last image was taken at 12:35 PM. We’ll see where we are at when I leave at the end of the day.

**UPDATE**

Just checked at 2:15 and there is now 3″ of freshness on top of my car. Up to 7″ so far for the day.

**3:30 UPDATE**

Well stack 3.75″ on top of where we were at noon. So far a total of almost 8″ on the day. Crazy. Time to go drive in it. YAY!

Marcus decided he was going to go snowboarding in Breckenridge next week, so, why not get some new bindings. Check out the bling!

Plus it’s fun to play with the work camera!