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Wurpl melds great design, a focus on usability, incredible attention to detail, and a sensitivity to the needs of clients and users alike into beautiful and functional sites. Take a few moments to look over some of Wurpl's recent work.

Onward Neighborhood House
URL: onwardhouse.org
Status: live
Scope: design, front-end coding (CSS and XHTML), usability testing

Screenshot of onwardhouse.org Wurpl recently partnered with Onward Neighborhood House to create a new public face for their powerhouse organization. Onward Neighborhood House is a $2.5 million-a-year non-profit organization that helps to empower families and individuals in need to achieve their full potential in a community-based setting through participant-driven educational, recreational, and social service programs.

Wurpl worked with Onward Neighborhood Houses' executive team to create a website that better serves the specific goals of the organization. The new site offers those in need and potential donors alike access to a wealth of information about the organization, the services they offer, and opportunities to get involved.

Grinnell Cyclone
URL: web.grinnell.edu/cyclone
Status: live
Scope: design, front-end coding (CSS, XHTML, Javascript), usability testing

Screenshot of web.grinnell.edu/cyclone/ Publishing the Grinnell Cyclone, a 192-page image-laden book, on the web provided Wurpl with an exciting opportunity to experiment with different methods for navigating a huge amount of content in the most straightforward and efficient manner. Wurpl ultimately provided three distinct and complimentary methods for navigating the book online: Visitors could experience the book in a traditional linear fashion, moving through the entire publication page-by-page; alternatively, visitors could at any time decide to jump immediately to any page of their choosing; and lastly, visitors could utilize the integrated search functionality to quickly locate every instance of a particular name or image tag and jump to each of those locations.

Wurpl really succeeded in bringing the Grinnell Cyclone, a publication with a heritage dating back more than 150 years, into the 21st century in a usable and attractive fashion. In doing so, the potential audience of the publication expanded exponentially and the publication appreciated in value to all interested parties.

The Woodstock Independent
URL: inde-news.com
Status: retired
Scope: design, front-end coding (CSS and XHTML), usability testing, weekly updates

Screenshot of inde-news.com The Woodstock Independent is an award winning weekly newspaper that has been serving it's community for over 20 years. The Independent teamed up with Wurpl to redesign and modernize their online presence back in 2001. Working with the Independent for the following three years, Wurpl implemented weekly updates and helped to maintain and extend the overall look and high standards of style and consistency of this stellar newspaper on the web.

Wurpl's work with the Woodstock Indepent helped to expand the paper's readership locally, nationally, and internationally as it allowed past and present community members to maintain a connection to local news and events.

Thoughtpuddle
URL: thoughtpuddle.com
Status: live
Scope: design, front-end coding (XHTML), usability testing

Screenshot of thoughtpuddle.com Thoughtpuddle began as the personal website of Evan Petrie, Wurpl's principal and lead designer. It is home to a number of his photographs and has been generating a significant amount of traffic and attention for several years. It has not received any recent updates, but it still exists as the earliest example of Wurpl's web design available online.

The Scarlet & Black
URL: web.grinnell.edu/sandb/
Status: retired
Scope: design, front-end coding (CSS and XHTML), usability testing, weekly updates

The Scarlet & Black is a weekly college newspaper that reports on issues of student interest, social justice, and local and national politics. Wurpl worked with The Scarlet & Black to move the newspaper online for the first time in it's 120-year history. Wurpl was responsible for the initial design and implementation as well as the first several months of weekly updates.