Imagistic is very happy to announce that Top Honors is this year's recipient of the Grantastic award; a $20,000 grant for web design and development services. "Since creating the Grantastic program, we have received an incredible response from the non-profit community. This year, with the amount of proposals submitted, our selection process was exceptionally difficult. There are just so many organizations trying to better our world that selecting only one was not easy," said Imagistic's Kevin Howard Goldberg. "What singled Top Honors out above the rest? In the current economic environment, education is suffering nationally. Top Honor's mission to help young people's lives through the power of one-on-one mathematics tutoring is just so timely. Their shoestring operation combined with their passionate commitment to children resonated deeply with us." About Top Honors Top Honors is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization offering free math tutoring to middle school students in New York City. Since their founding (2002) they have continually operated as a not-for-profit and are run almost entirely by volunteers. Visit their site at www.tophonors.org. About Imagistic Founded in 1997, Imagistic is a business and technology solutions firm. Its mission is to help organizations use technology to support their business and improve their bottom line. With a strong attention to detail and exceptional client service, Imagistic offers a proven track record of hundreds of satisfied clients and successful implementations around the world. Its talented and seasoned staff offers decades of experience in business technology strategy, technology forensics, RFP/RFQ/RFI consultation, Internet and custom software development, content strategy, project management, design, and information architecture.

About iS2 Digital

Embracing the future, Imagistic is now iS2 Digital. Building on our 27-year legacy, iS2 Digital offers the same commitment to exceptional customer service and best-in-class digital solutions. This isn't merely a name change; it underscores our mission to guide you through this era of unparalleled technological change, ensuring you Adapt, Evolve, and Succeed.

Imagistic relaunched the Squid & Squash Foundation web site. The Squid & Squash Foundation is an organization committed to providing financial aid to educational, social, and charitable causes that enrich the lives of children.

To better serve their key areas, Diane Drummond Greenwood, Executive Director of the Squid and Squash Foundation asked that Imagistic build an online destination where Squid & Squash can tout the successes of their programs.

Regarding the previous web site, Diane said, "It was such a dreaded, depressing project that was NEVER properly designed. I had all but given up hope until you [at Imagistic] came along." Using WordPress, Imagistic created sections for organization biographies, photo galleries, and resources. Kevin Howard Goldberg, president of Imagistic said in response, "we often work on projects where clients have had bad previous experiences. We really enjoy showing them that a web site can be built intelligently, cost-effectively, be good looking and be easy-to-use." With the site's relaunch and its "whimsical and joyful" design, Diane remarked, "Absolutely, positively, without any reservation I [will] recommend Imagistic to ANY organization who might require website development expertise." About the Squid & Squash Foundation The Squid & Squash Foundation was established for the purpose of providing aid to educational, social and charitable causes that seek to enrich the lives of our youth. The Foundation’s mission is to positively impact the quality of life for underprivileged and at-risk youth including, but not limited to, Los Angeles and surrounding metropolitan communities in the following key areas: • Education & Literacy • Arts & Culture • Inner-City Enrichment • Community Outreach • Environmental Preservation About Imagistic Founded in 1997, Imagistic is a business and technology solutions firm. Its mission is to help organizations use technology to support their business and improve their bottom line. With a strong attention to detail and exceptional client service, Imagistic offers a proven track record of hundreds of satisfied clients and successful implementations around the world. Its talented and seasoned staff offers decades of experience in business technology strategy, technology forensics, RFP/RFQ/RFI consultation, Internet and custom software development, content strategy, project management, design, and information architecture.

About iS2 Digital

Embracing the future, Imagistic is now iS2 Digital. Building on our 27-year legacy, iS2 Digital offers the same commitment to exceptional customer service and best-in-class digital solutions. This isn't merely a name change; it underscores our mission to guide you through this era of unparalleled technological change, ensuring you Adapt, Evolve, and Succeed.

Imagistic recently launched a new site for the Innocence Project New Orleans, located at: www.ip-no.org. Innocence Project New Orleans (IPNO) has grown to be the second largest free-standing (not a law school clinic) innocence project in the country. Working with its client contact, Jené O’Keefe, Imagistic created a dynamic, content-rich site built on the Drupal Content Management System, supporting a feature rich home page banner slide show, Exonoree profiles, legal resources, social networking tools, and other assistive content for visitors seeking help. "Being our first Grantastic winner, we were very excited to help IPNO increase their web presence and their donations through a well-architected site and CMS," explained Imagistic president, Kevin Howard Goldberg. "Receiving such incredibly positive feedback on the new site and CMS really helped solidify why we created the Grantastic program in the first place!" About Innocence Project New Orleans IPNO is a non-profit law office with full time staff attorneys working cases from start to finish, supported by investigators, paralegals and a constellation of volunteer assistance – primarily outside attorneys working pro-bono as co-counsel and law students who assist with case review and investigation – at no cost to our clients. IPNO has a national reputation for winning exonerations; both in cases where DNA can prove innocence, and in more difficult cases where DNA does not exist or has been destroyed. The latter type of cases require hundreds of hours of traditional investigation to gather the evidence needed to exonerate an innocent prisoner. About Imagistic Founded in 1997, Imagistic is a business and technology solutions firm. Its mission is to help organizations use technology to support their business and improve their bottom line. With a strong attention to detail and exceptional client service, Imagistic offers a proven track record of hundreds of satisfied clients and successful implementations around the world. Its talented and seasoned staff offers decades of experience in business technology strategy, technology forensics, RFP/RFQ/RFI consultation, Internet and custom software development, content strategy, project management, design, and information architecture.

About iS2 Digital

Embracing the future, Imagistic is now iS2 Digital. Building on our 27-year legacy, iS2 Digital offers the same commitment to exceptional customer service and best-in-class digital solutions. This isn't merely a name change; it underscores our mission to guide you through this era of unparalleled technological change, ensuring you Adapt, Evolve, and Succeed.

Recently, Imagistic redesigned the Enenstein & Ribakoff web site located at www.enensteinlaw.com. Enenstein & Ribakoff is a law firm focused on providing legal representation in the areas of business and commercial disputes, corporate and securities Law, family law, insurance, intellectual property matters, international disputes and more. To better represent their firm, Darren Enenstein, asked that Imagistic build an online destination that conveys a feeling of quality, professionalism and creative thinking. Because Enenstein & Ribakoff is comprised of experts practicing in numerous practice areas, it was critical that site visitors are able to easily identify each attorney’s specific areas of expertise and contact information. He also requested that the site be easy to administer to minimize the reliance on external IT support when adding or updating site content. Using WordPress, Imagistic created feature-rich practice area sections and counsel biographies for easy access and understanding. Moreover, all news stories are tagged with attorney names and are dynamically displayed with that attorney and their associated contact information. Kevin Howard Goldberg, president of Imagistic said in response, "We decided to use WordPress because of its straight forward administration interface and its cost effectiveness for the project. “ He added that “the relationship between news content and attorneys required a little custom coding, but we enjoy extending applications when necessary." About Enenstein & Ribakoff Enenstein & Ribakoff is a result-oriented law firm that implements a creative approach to attain its clients’ objectives. Thinking outside the box brings results to otherwise difficult or hopeless situations. Whether at trial or in the boardroom, the Firm employs a multidisciplinary approach to complex situations to provide an effective resolution. As a resource to its clients, the Firm draws upon its substantial contacts to facilitate deals or enable resolutions to disputes. About Imagistic Founded in 1997, Imagistic is a business and technology solutions firm. Its mission is to help organizations use technology to support their business and improve their bottom line. With a strong attention to detail and exceptional client service, Imagistic offers a proven track record of hundreds of satisfied clients and successful implementations around the world. Its talented and seasoned staff offers decades of experience in business technology strategy, technology forensics, RFP/RFQ/RFI consultation, Internet and custom software development, content strategy, project management, design, and information architecture.

About iS2 Digital

Embracing the future, Imagistic is now iS2 Digital. Building on our 27-year legacy, iS2 Digital offers the same commitment to exceptional customer service and best-in-class digital solutions. This isn't merely a name change; it underscores our mission to guide you through this era of unparalleled technological change, ensuring you Adapt, Evolve, and Succeed.

Imagistic has leveraged responsive web design principles in redeploying its existing corporate web site properties. Kevin Howard Goldberg, president and CTO of Imagistic explained that, “... when I first saw a presentation on responsive web design I immediately knew this was going to be an important movement in web design and development.” But knowing that ideas are only as good as their implementation, he decided to take the Imagistic corporate sites and re-architect them first. Responsive web design is a methodology of using cascading style sheets (CSS) to adjust the content and layout of a web site based on the device that is viewing the site. In doing so, a single web page will essentially change the way it displays content, targeted to the device requesting the page. In the past, web sites were designed and developed based on desktop / laptop browsers. If a user visited a web site on a mobile device, much of the site’s content was off-screen requiring them to slide around the screen, zoom in and out, or simply hunt and peck for content. Then, with the increase in mobile devices browsing the web, companies developed different web pages to streamline designs and layouts for mobile devices; site addresses were often prefixed with “mobile.” or just “m.”. The downside with this strategy was that companies needed to develop and maintain two or more separate sites whether through hard-coded HTML or CMSes. And with the increasing number and array of smart phones, netbooks, tablets, and other handheld devices browsing the web, having a mobile strategy became an imperative. Imagistic developed a mobile version of its site in 2011. Then, in early 2012, Kevin became fascinated with the concept of responsive web design. After much research and planning, he decided to restructure both the corporate site (www.imagistic.com) as well as Imagistic’s non-profit arm (Grantastic). 

 

About Imagistic Founded in 1997, Imagistic is a business and technology solutions firm. Its mission is to help organizations use technology to support their business and improve their bottom line. With a strong attention to detail and exceptional client service, Imagistic offers a proven track record of hundreds of satisfied clients and successful implementations around the world. Its talented and seasoned staff offers decades of experience in business technology strategy, technology forensics, RFP/RFQ/RFI consultation, Internet and custom software development, content strategy, project management, design, and information architecture.

About iS2 Digital

Embracing the future, Imagistic is now iS2 Digital. Building on our 27-year legacy, iS2 Digital offers the same commitment to exceptional customer service and best-in-class digital solutions. This isn't merely a name change; it underscores our mission to guide you through this era of unparalleled technological change, ensuring you Adapt, Evolve, and Succeed.

Imagistic designed a number of leaderboard web banners for the ACME Network. Though typically not rocket science, budget and time were severely limited, so the need to provide the biggest bang for the buck in a tight timeline required a heightened level of focused strategy and delivery. Owner of Imagistic, Kevin Howard Goldberg, was approached by the ACME Network (www.theacmenetwork.org) on this marketing need, having done project specifications work for them in the past. Imagistic's Robert Sullivan, Senior Project Manager, worked closely with Jeannette Draper, Platform Producer for the ACME Network, to A/B test 3 leaderboard banners targeted to amateur / professional fine artists who use deviantART.com (www.deviantart.com). Together, they agreed that to break through the white noise of banner placement, there needed to be a monetary opportunity that would resonate with target audience; an introductory discount (for a limited time) to become a ACME member was offered as part of the banner campaign By coupling the membership discount with a limited time to act, responses far exceeded the expectations. In just 5 hours after launching banners Imagistic received the following email from Ms. Draper. "You'll be pleased to know we actually got a paid member within the first few hours of your promo ad going into circulation, which is certainly impressive! Our click-through rates have been consistently over 12-14% so far, which was also higher than I had expected. Kudos to all of you for helping us to design a piece that's working!" At roughly $300 per membership, the ACME Network was able to create a new stream of membership revenue and generate a very high ROI on their marketing spend. About The ACME Network The ACME Network is a non-profit social network whose award-winning animation mentoring program prepares students for the creative economy, fostering creativity, leadership, innovation and 21st century skills. ACME’s professional mentors come from Hollywood studios – such as DreamWorks, Disney, Sony Imageworks, and others. ACME serves students 13 years of age and above. Founded in 1994, ACME has since helped over 55,000 students prepare for job-readiness in the creative industry via our programs with professional animators. Thousands of ACME students have gone on to industry careers. About Imagistic Founded in 1997, Imagistic is a business and technology solutions firm. Its mission is to help organizations use technology to support their business and improve their bottom line. With a strong attention to detail and exceptional client service, Imagistic offers a proven track record of hundreds of satisfied clients and successful implementations around the world. Its talented and seasoned staff offers decades of experience in business technology strategy, technology forensics, RFP/RFQ/RFI consultation, Internet and custom software development, content strategy, project management, design, and information architecture.

About iS2 Digital

Embracing the future, Imagistic is now iS2 Digital. Building on our 27-year legacy, iS2 Digital offers the same commitment to exceptional customer service and best-in-class digital solutions. This isn't merely a name change; it underscores our mission to guide you through this era of unparalleled technological change, ensuring you Adapt, Evolve, and Succeed.

Imagistic and Ninjitsu Web Development launched a redesigned web site for Mars Air Systems, located at: www.marsair.com. Mars Air has been manufacturing high quality air curtains for over 50 years. Their air curtains protect building environments from energy loss and windborne dust, dirt and fumes, along with flying insects. The air barrier created by the light stream of air over a doorway helps to improve inside sanitation and reduce operational energy costs. Working with Murriel Calaycay, Imagistic re-architected the Mars Air Systems web site to be more product focused, easily navigable, and content friendly. With many air curtain models to choose from, air curtains are now more intelligently grouped (by industry application) as a series of air curtain families; so that series models can be merchandised more clearly. In addition to product re-categorization, a new Help & Support section was created to better serve existing customers and product specifications. The new Mars Air Systems web site is using the Drupal 7 Content Management System. Kevin Howard Goldberg, president of Imagistic felt that, "... with this newest version of Drupal, not only will be able to come to market more quickly, the client-facing administrative interface is greatly improved over that in Drupal 6." More About Mars Air Systems Mars Air Curtains qualify for LEED point credits when utilized with in a building management system and help to support Green Build initiatives. Mars is a global company with factory trained manufacturers’ representatives and dealers/distributors located across the US and internationally. Since 1962, Mars has stood proudly behind every product. Whether needs are simply to discuss which specific make-up air components or which air curtains will work best. Mars Air Systems is a global company with knowledgeable factory trained representatives and distributors located all across the country and around the world. About Imagistic Founded in 1997, Imagistic is a business and technology solutions firm. Our mission is to help organizations use technology to support their business and improve their bottom line. With a strong attention to detail and exceptional client service, Imagistic offers a proven track record of hundreds of satisfied clients and successful implementations around the world. Our talented and seasoned staff offers decades of experience in business technology strategy, technology forensics, RFP/RFQ/RFI consultation, Internet and custom software development, content strategy, project management, design, and information architecture.

About iS2 Digital

Embracing the future, Imagistic is now iS2 Digital. Building on our 27-year legacy, iS2 Digital offers the same commitment to exceptional customer service and best-in-class digital solutions. This isn't merely a name change; it underscores our mission to guide you through this era of unparalleled technological change, ensuring you Adapt, Evolve, and Succeed.

The Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, a County Historical Landmark, recently partnered with Imagistic to overhaul their website with an updated design and eCommerce. The project included a redesigned home page, a robust Content Management System and extensive eCommerce features. Imagistic redesigned www.sbbg.org with the end user in mind, focusing on creating an online experience that conveyed the essence of being immersed in the lushness of the gardens. The Imagistic team also updated the home page to reinforce this feeling, showcasing the incredible imagery from the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden's extensive photo collection library. The new Santa Barbara Botanic Garden site also features advanced eCommerce features including an event calendar with tiered registration options, and a robust transaction system for the various levels of donation and membership. "Our primary goal was to implement a rich and visceral user experience while delivering an easy-to-use and easy-to-manage administration system for the site," said Imagistic president Kevin Howard Goldberg. "That's why we chose the Drupal 7 Content Management System and the Drupal Commerce module. Together, these provided a substantial framework on which to build powerful features in terms of user experience and administrative ease of management." More About Santa Barbara Botanic Garden In 1925, the Carnegie Institution suggested a cooperative undertaking with the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History to administer what it envisioned as a botanical garden "...reaching from the sea to the crest of the mountains, connected by a drive lined with trees, shrubs and flowers from all parts of the earth." The Santa Barbara Botanic Garden fosters the conservation of California's native plants through our gardens, education, and research, and serves as a role model of sustainable practices. It envisions a world where society understands the interdependency between people and plants, and acts to preserve the natural world. About Imagistic Founded in 1997, Imagistic is a business and technology solutions firm. Our mission is to help organizations use technology to support their business and improve their bottom line. With a strong attention to detail and exceptional client service, Imagistic offers a proven track record of hundreds of satisfied clients and successful implementations around the world. Our talented and seasoned staff offers decades of experience in business technology strategy, technology forensics, RFP/RFQ/RFI consultation, Internet and custom software development, content strategy, project management, design, and information architecture.

About iS2 Digital

Embracing the future, Imagistic is now iS2 Digital. Building on our 27-year legacy, iS2 Digital offers the same commitment to exceptional customer service and best-in-class digital solutions. This isn't merely a name change; it underscores our mission to guide you through this era of unparalleled technological change, ensuring you Adapt, Evolve, and Succeed.

S.J.Hemley Marketing, a marketing and sales consulting firm, recently announced its partnership with Imagistic for the design the development of client websites. Together Imagistic and S.J.Hemley Marketing have more than 40 combined years in successful online marketing strategy and transaction-driven site development. "Imagistic has already delivered exceptional home page comps for our first client, " said Larry Hemley, President of S.J.Hemley Marketing. "The site is slated to launch in early October and is setting the foundation for an easy-to-manage and user-centric content management system using the latest version of Drupal 7, " added Kevin Howard Goldberg, President of Imagistic. About S.J.Hemley Marketing S.J.Hemley Marketing is a marketing and sales consulting firm focused on driving tangible results for professional services firms. Brand matters, but not without ROI. With over 20 years of sales and marketing experience within staffing and recruiting, we have helped to drive successful branding, sales training, lead generation activities as well as defining marketing strategy for top organizations. About Imagistic Founded in 1997, Imagistic is a business and technology solutions firm. Our mission is to help organizations use technology to support their business and improve their bottom line. With a strong attention to detail and exceptional client service, Imagistic offers a proven track record of hundreds of satisfied clients and successful implementations around the world. Our talented and seasoned staff offers decades of experience in business technology strategy, technology forensics, RFP/RFQ/RFI consultation, Internet and custom software development, content strategy, project management, design, and information architecture.

About iS2 Digital

Embracing the future, Imagistic is now iS2 Digital. Building on our 27-year legacy, iS2 Digital offers the same commitment to exceptional customer service and best-in-class digital solutions. This isn't merely a name change; it underscores our mission to guide you through this era of unparalleled technological change, ensuring you Adapt, Evolve, and Succeed.

Two years ago, the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation hired Imagistic to rebuild, from the ground up, their internal / external client management system. The project included reverse-engineering the existing application, reviewing and clarifying updated stakeholder requirements, a complete and lossless data migration, information architecture, graphic design, systems design and application development. Imagistic redesigned the client facing interface https://feedback.paralysis.org/ and simplified the forms to make it easier for users with limited use of their hands. As well, the Imagistic team re-architected the internal administrative system with this same goal in mind, providing various additional user-centric features such as enabling / disabling the enter and tab keys and insuring that buttons and page links were much larger than a typical web-based application. This was done because many of the Information Specialists have limited hand mobility themselves. "Our goal was to dramatically improve the systems' usability from both an informational standpoint as well as an interface standpoint. Working directly with the Information Specialist administration team, we were able to get incredible feedback throughout the final stages of development which enabled us to tune the system to more effectively match their existing work flow and also propel them into the future with greater efficiencies in data entry and reporting," said Imagistic president Kevin Howard Goldberg. "Knowing that the Information Specialists will now be able to focus more on helping families of / individuals with paralysis rather than on data entry is one of the gifts we get from doing software development for an organization such as the Reeve Foundation." More About the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation Since its founding in 1982, the Reeve Foundation has been dedicated to curing spinal cord injury by funding innovative research, and improving the quality of life for people living with paralysis through grants, information and advocacy. The Reeve Foundation's Paralysis Resource Center (PRC) promotes the health and well-being of people living with a spinal cord injury, mobility impairment, and paralysis by providing comprehensive information, resources and referral services. About Imagistic Founded in 1997, Imagistic is a business and technology solutions firm. Our mission is to help organizations use technology to support their business and improve their bottom line. With a strong attention to detail and exceptional client service, Imagistic offers a proven track record of hundreds of satisfied clients and successful implementations around the world. Our talented and seasoned staff offers decades of experience in business technology strategy, technology forensics, RFP/RFQ/RFI consultation, Internet and custom software development, content strategy, project management, design, and information architecture.

About iS2 Digital

Embracing the future, Imagistic is now iS2 Digital. Building on our 27-year legacy, iS2 Digital offers the same commitment to exceptional customer service and best-in-class digital solutions. This isn't merely a name change; it underscores our mission to guide you through this era of unparalleled technological change, ensuring you Adapt, Evolve, and Succeed.