Late last year, I was super-excited to learn that RubyConf 2010 was being held just an hour away from here, in New Orleans. Given that I love Ruby and write most of my code these days in it, I knew I had to go. Then, I found out that the guy who wrote Ruby, Yukihiro “matz” Matsumoto was going to be there, as well as David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of the framework Ruby on Rails and co-author of the book … Read More
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Gatorworks Hired to Redesign RonaldReagan.com
February 25th, 2011 by Brian RodriguezGatorworks, the award-winning web design team from Baton Rouge, recently redesigned the website for former President Ronald Reagan: www.RonaldReagan.com. The website will be used to help promote the 2011 Republican Leadership Conference and Reagan Centennial Celebration to be held in New Orleans later this year.
The conference is billed as the most prominent Republican event prior to the next national convention. Top Republican law makers from around the country are expected to be at the conference in June 2011.
GrinchAlert.com Gets National Attention
December 17th, 2010 by Brian RodriguezOur firm was hired the first weekend in December to build a website called GrinchAlert.com for First Baptist Church in Dallas, TX. The idea of the website was to point out businesses that avoid outward signs of celebrating the Christmas season as well as call attention to those businesses that encourage the use of the greeting “Merry Christmas.”
The website allows users to post the names of businesses that are showing visible signs of celebrating the Christmas season, and these … Read More
Ruby on Rails: Our Choice for Web App Development
July 6th, 2010 by Richard FelixOver the last year or so, we’ve used Ruby on Rails for development of our largest web applications here at Gatorworks. Ruby on Rails is one of the so-called “opinionated” web frameworks out there. By opinionated, I mean that it makes a lot of assumptions for you. It assumes that you’re building a web app, which means that your app will live in a browser, probably connect to a database, need to create, read, update and delete records, and that … Read More
Welcome to the NEW PolicyPitch.com
April 20th, 2010 by Brian RodriguezOur team recently had the pleasure of working with New Orleans attorney/entrepreneur Zach Kupperman of Policy Pitch. We gave his website a nice face-lift from a design / usability standpoint. (We did not do the development -only design) PolicyPitch.com allows people to propose new public policy ideas and track local legislation at the state level. The website provides a crowd-powered platform to help its users collaborate, refine, and promote their policy ideas and transform the online communication into real world … Read More
Big Presence for Gatorworks at Southern Republican Leadership Conference
April 9th, 2010 by Brian RodriguezOur team has been working tirelessly over the last several months for one of our largest clients of the year: The Southern Republican Leadership Conference (SRLC). We had the pleasure of handling all the design work for the conference including (but not limited to) the conference logo, printed program design (80 pages), various direct mail pieces, apparel design, poster design, press backdrop design, directional signage, and of course an interactive website.
Scheduled for April 8-11 in New Orleans, the SRLC … Read More
A Tour of Santa's Online Wishlist
February 23rd, 2010 by Brian RodriguezA Tour of Santa’s Online Wishlist
Happy Mardi Gras from Gatorworks
February 15th, 2010 by Brian RodriguezLast week I had the pleasure of attending Mele Printing’s 7th Annual “Krewe of Kookies and Kakes” where I had the opportunity to make my very own king cake! The day started off with a quick meet and greet with the 20 or so other business professionals participating in the king cake class. My friends Trammie Anderson and Mendi LeBlanc from Lamar happened to be in the class as well, so it was great seeing them. After knocking out a … Read More
Voting Opens for the 2010 People’s Choice Awards
February 4th, 2010 by Brian RodriguezOur team just had the pleasure of finishing up the People’s Choice Awards website for the local design competition. Here are the details from the American Advertising Federation of Baton Rouge:
Here is your chance to decide on the elite creative advertising work in Baton Rouge. American Advertising Federation-Baton Rouge has created online voting for four different categories – print, radio, broadcast and interactive – to be awarded at the 2010 ADDY® Awards.
Voting is held online at http://www.aafbr-pca.org/. You … Read More
2010 Here We Come!
December 30th, 2009 by Brian RodriguezI wanted to take the opportunity to thank all our clients and strategic partners for a great year. We were fortunate to work with a number of really wonderful people and highly successful companies. We look forward to an exciting 2010!
Check out a small sampling of some of the websites we’ve designed, developed, and maintained throughout the last year.