Headspace Design

Tools of our trade.

Building a website or a strategy is like making a meal. Sure, there’s a basic recipe, but the quality of the ingredients you use is going to impact the final dish. Here are some of our favourite ingredients:

ExpressionEngine

ExpressionEngine is a flexible, feature-rich content management system built on open-source technology. We use a heavily customized version of EE that allows our client to easily manage their own websites, and allows for future expandability.

CodeIgniter

CodeIgniter is a powerful PHP framework with a very small footprint, built for PHP coders who need a simple and elegant toolkit to create full-featured web applications. As a LAMP shop (Linux, Apache, PHP and MySQL), we use Codeigniter as our in-house toolkit for custom web applications.

Basecamp

Trusted by millions, Basecamp is the leading web-based project collaboration tool. Sharing files, meeting deadlines, assigning tasks, centralizing feedback; we use Basecamp to keep all of our projects on track and on budget.

Social Gopher

Using our proprietary Social Gopher monitoring software we can dig deep into all forms of online media. From social media to news services, if it’s online and it relates to your company, government department or non-profit, we’ll find it. You’ll know who’s talking about, what’s being said and where.

Campaign Monitor

Campaign Monitor is a sleek, powerful and elegant way to manage your email campaigns. Easily add subscribers, edit rich email templates, and view easy-to-understand reports that let you measure the effectiveness of every campaign you send. We create a CM account for every new client, free of charge. Use it once, and we’re confident you’ll be hooked. No more email blasts from Outlook, no more Constant Contact.

Media Temple

Media Temple is a world-class hosting provider that is known for consistent up-time, powerful tools, and great customer service. With our own Virtual Dedicated Server account, we host our clients websites allowing them to log in to Plesk for administration. Using a secure, scalable and rock-solid platform (and avoiding an in-house server) helps all of us sleep better at night.

JQuery/JQuery Mobile

We love JQuery. With it, we can write powerful Javascript functionality quickly, efficiently and cross-browser compatible. JQuery enables us to animate the web page while also keeping it within web standards and avoiding Flash. With JQuery Mobile, we can write powerful mobile apps optimized for touch-screen devices that mimick the feel of iPhone and iPad apps.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a fantastic, free tool that enables site administrators to measure all traffic arriving at their site – where it’s coming from, when it’s arriving, how long visitors are staying, and what content they’re seeking out. We install it free of charge on each site we build and can help orient you to the reports.