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Simande LLC

Simande is a full-service web design and development studio located in New York City who has recently completed work for Mercedes-Benz USA, CNNMoney, Columbia University, and more.

Location

New York, New York, United States

Number of Employees

2-10

Services

  • Web/Visual/Interface Design
  • User Experience/Usability
  • Search Engine Marketing/Optimization

Portfolio

Teachers College, Columbia University

The Student Press Initiative (SPI) at Teachers College, Columbia University has steadily grown from its principle founding in 2002. Focused on the organization’s mission of revolutionizing education by advancing teacher leadership in reading and writing instruction, SPI hired Simande to redesign their existing website to reflect their tremendous growth and to generate more interest from fellow teachers across the nation.

Highlights of this project include the development of a custom content management system (CMS) that included an administrative dashboard with drag-and-drop capabilities, a built in e-mail subscription system, a custom video player, and a JavaScript powered “Apple Coverflow” browser to navigate SPI’s printed publications. The site also includes integration of jQuery’s powerful UI library to handle the site’s dynamic interactions.

Project completed in 2009
CNNMoney.com Yahoo! Open Application

CNNMoney wanted to have one of the first few applications available with the new Yahoo homepage launch that will help direct more traffic to the CNNMoney.com main site.

The application included a custom animated tag cloud of the most recent and most popular keywords, a voting poll that integrates with the existing data on the CNNMoney.com site, a custom gallery viewer with JavaScript-based popups, and integration to the Yahoo portal to create a personalized toolbar that displays data based on the user’s location. All stories and image assets were taken, as feeds, from existing content from the CNNMoney.com site.

Project completed in 2009
The Sunday Mass

Since their first broadcast in the New York area almost four decades ago, The Sunday Mass has steadily grown to become a nationally broadcast television show that reaches tens of thousands of people throughout the United States.

In an effort to expand their outreach, The Sunday Mass contracted Simande to redesign their existing website and to add new functionality including mailing list subscription, recurring online donations, broadcast search by zip code, online prayer guide ordering, and prayer intentions.

Project completed in 2009