Red Bicycle is a small company located in Lincoln, NE that finds beauty in two things: Words and Websites.
Portfolio
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Redeemer
Redeemer is a new church—not even a year old—that launched as a church plant from Zion Church. Seeing as how the church is relatively young, a web presence was needed to provide basic information about Redeemer: its community, ministries, and services. On the other hand, we didn’t want to bite off more than we could chew and launch a site that would be too big and cumbersome to manage for a church still so young.
As such, a one-page site was developed in order to keep things relatively simple while still provided an efficient way to disseminate the information that was available. The site makes heavy use of the jQuery JavaScript library for the content presentation and other effects (such as the smooth scrolling). However, the site degrades gracefully for users who might have JavaScript turned off in their browser.
On the backend, the site runs on the ExpressionEngine content management system, which ensures that the site is easy to update and maintain. It also ensures that the site will be able to evolve and grow alongside Redeemer.
Project Work: ExpressionEngine, Design, (X)HTML/CSS
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My Photographic Memory
My Photographic Memory handles all products and services related to the preservation, archival, and enhancement of photographs. Their services include photo archiving, scanning, retouching, and they offer an array of slideshows, photo books, and gallery wraps.
The website is a core feature of their business, and was designed to quickly allow visitors to find out more about My Photographic Memory and place orders for the products and services that they need. The website was designed by Red Bicycle, and then built on top of ExpressionEngine, which allows My Photographic Memory to quickly update their site’s content as needed.
This includes a gallery that shows off My Photographic Memory’s capabilities when it comes to retouching and enhancing photos, and an online proofing system that lets My Photographic Memory post proofs for their clients and quickly receive feedback and sign-off on their work.
Project Work: ExpressionEngine, Custom Programming, Design, (X)HTML/CSS
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Fuel
Fuel is the blog/news source for Jumpstart Automotive Media, “the only advertising network exclusively focused on the automotive industry”.
Red Bicycle was contracted to take the existing design, and integrate it with a system that would make it easy for staff to post articles, news links, and event information with minimal effort, HTML expertise, etc. The design was integrated with ExpressionEngine, a very powerful and flexible content management system.
With EE, staff can post news articles quickly and efficiently, and organize them via issue (e.g., December 2008, October 2008). Readers can browse for articles via issue as well as do keyword searches. In addition, readers can sign up for a free site membership, which allows them to post comments on articles.
Project Work: ExpressionEngine
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Stephen Lan
Stephen Lan is a film publicist based out of Toronto who works with film festivals around the world, including Cannes, Sundance, and Berlin. His website is a critical tool for getting information out to film critics and press about the films that he is promoting at those festivals, which has included titles by such renowned directors as Guy Maddin, Atom Egoyan, Pen-ek Ratanaruang, Tsai Ming-liang, and Philip Gröning.
His previous website had been a largely static affair, making it difficult to make timely updates as Lan’s schedule and list of promoted films changed, or as new festival info came over the horizon.
Red Bicycle took his existing design—which did a fine job of conveying the worldwide nature of Lan’s business—and rebuilt the site on ExpressionEngine. Now, Lan or any member of his staff to log into a password-protected administrative area and make updates as necessary: be it adding festivals, updating screening and promotional information for a particular film, and/or modifying Lan’s contact and professional info.
Project Work: ExpressionEngine, (X)HTML/CSS
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Tennessee Alumnus Magazine
This website is no longer supported by Red Bicycle, Inc., and so some of the following information may be out-of-date.
The Tennessee Alumnus Magazine is a quarterly publication for the University of Tennessee National Alumni Association, and is intended to feature and provide information about the various activities that happen throughout the college.
Red Bicycle was contracted to help implement the site on a content management system that would make it easy for magazine staff to post new issues and articles online, with minimal effort and/or web design expertise. Red Bicycle took the design, and built the site on top of ExpressionEngine. Using EE’s powerful relationship capabilities, the magazine staff can post new issues (e.g., Winter 2009), and then assign individual articles to each issue. In addition, articles can be categorized and organized according to article type.
Site visitors can browse the articles via issue, category, article type, or date, and can search for articles via keywords, making it easy to them to find the information that they’re looking for.
Project Work: ExpressionEngine
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The Grand
The Grand is a blog for my wife, Renae. There, she regularly posts updates about our family for friends and other family members to read, be it updates on our son or our latest travel plans. She also uses it to practice and indulge in her burgeoning photographic skills.
The Grand used to be a community blog, but over the years, it’s become Renae’s sole domain, as the other members of the site have moved on to blogs of their own. As such, this latest redesign was intended to more closely reflect our household. As such, imagery from throughout our house was used, in conjunction with the color scheme, to give the site a much more personal, individualized stamp.
The Grand used to run on an older version of Movable Type, but for its latest incarnation, it was moved to the free, or “Core”, version of ExpressionEngine, Red Bicycle’s CMS of choice. This allows Renae to quickly and easily update the site, be it posting the most recent adorable photo of our child or jotting down some thoughts from the everyday life of a stay-at-home mom.
Project Work: ExpressionEngine, Design, (X)HTML/CSS
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Hahn Dental Clinic
Hahn Dental Clinic serves the Sioux Falls and Viborg communities in South Dakota. As such, it was important to them that the site have a “local” feel, while also containing their own unique personality.
In addition to information about the facilities and staff, the site also contains numerous patient resources. These allow current and prospective patients to quickly and easily sign up for appointments, ask questions of the doctors, fill out surveys to better improve the clinic’s services, and simply find out more about dental health in general.
The site runs on ExpressionEngine, a powerful and flexible content management system that allows the clinic to update their website whenever they need to. This allows the website to grow and change, based upon the client’s needs.
Project Work: ExpressionEngine, Design, (X)HTML/CSS
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Twitch
Twitch is a rapidly-growing blog dedicated to covering “strange little films from around the world.” I did the original design for this site in early 2005, and in just a few months, the site’s traffic had increased at a phenomenal rate. So much so that a new design was needed to handle the increasing demands of the site’s readers without tossing out the visual look that many of Twitch’s readers appreciated.
In August 2007, the site underwent a complete overhaul. A new design was created that offered up new functionality while keeping with the informal blog look and feel that had served the site so well over the years. In addition, the entire site was moved to ExpressionEngine, an extremely powerful and flexible content management system. Now, all of the site’s components—blogs, archives, discussion forums, photo galleries—all run on one platform. This allows the site’s authors to publish content more quickly and efficiently while also bolstering the site’s burgeoning community of readers.
Additional programming and development has included banner ad integration and the implementation of a third-party video hosting service to handle the massive amounts of trailers, clips, and other footage that Twitch and its readers have gathered over the years.
Project Work: ExpressionEngine, Custom Programming, Design, (X)HTML/CSS
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Zion Church
This website is no longer supported by Red Bicycle, Inc., and so some of the following information may be out-of-date.
On June 9, 2007, Zion Church—an eighty-year-old fixture of downtown Lincoln, Nebraska—was destroyed by fire.
In light of this tragedy, it was decided that the church website needed a drastic makeover, both to communicate to the members and community what exactly had happened, as well as to provide a central point of contact for church-related news, events, and information.
The new Zion website runs on ExpressionEngine, which allows church staff to quickly update the website with the latest new and updates, while also allowing them to communicate with each other to ensure that the church’s ministries run as smoothly as possible.
The Zion Church website was created in collaboration with Jeremy Tredway.
Project Work: ExpressionEngine, Design, (X)HTML/CSS
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ChurchBeauty
ChurchBeauty is a website gallery whose intention is to show off “Church Websites That Inspire”. Site users can create free accounts, which then allow them to rate sites as well as create their own personal gallery containing their favorite websites, which they can find via categories, searching, or simply browsing.
In addition, ChurchBeauty tracks sites that have the highest rating, the most votes, and the most comments, giving site visitors a quick and easy way to find the sites that are garnering the most acclaim and discussion. Finally, users can submit sites to be considered for inclusion into the gallery.
ChurchBeauty has been built on the highly flexible ExpressionEngine content management system, which in turn, has been enhanced by the integration of several third-party add-ons, thus making it easy for the site’s staff to update and maintain.
Project Work: ExpressionEngine
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Toronto After Dark Film Festival
Toronto After Dark is a new film festival that debuted in 2006. The festival’s primary mission is to showcase innovative, independent, and international thrilling films, in front of Toronto audiences that would otherwise never get to see these works in a theatrical setting.
Considering the type of films being shown at the festival—mainly cult and indie fare the site’s design needed to convey the proper tone and mood without coming across as clichéd or stereotypical.
The website was a central piece of the festival’s promotional efforts and offered numerous ways for visitors to spread info about the festival via word of mouth and “viral” methods. It was also an integral part of the festival’s volunteer efforts, and was integrated with several third-party services such as Facebook and Constant Contact.
Project Work: ExpressionEngine, Custom Programming, Design, (X)HTML/CSS
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Stomp Tokyo
According to their tagline, Stomp Tokyo is focused on “Illuminating The Dark Heart Of Video”. As such, their site covers the best of the worst, “B” movies that no sane person would ever touch in their right mind.
For their tenth anniversary, the Stomp Tokyo crew wanted a redesign of their site that was a bit more modern, usable, up-to-date, while still retaining a “kitchsy” feel that was inline with the films that they review (e.g., Negadon: The Monster from Mars, The Werewolf vs. the Vampire Woman, and the Star Wars Holiday Special).
Oh, and given the Godzilla connection, there had to be lots of green.
Project Work: Design, WordPress, (X)HTML/CSS
Testimonials
Just a few of the nice things that our clients have said—and we didn't even have to pay them!
Adam Lopez, Toronto After Dark Film Festival
Red Bicycle blew us away with its creativity and innovativeness on our film festival’s website launch. We were delighted with the user-friendly and eye-catching design of our site which was directly referenced by numerous fans in our audience survey as being one of the biggest reasons they decided to check out our event.
Darren Hughes, University Of Tennessee - Knoxville
I came to Jason for help when I realized I was in over my head with a relatively complex project, and I can honestly say that without his services I would not have met my deadline. He responded quickly and graciously and was willing, even, to talk me through his development process. Working with Jason was, for me, like a very practical training session.
Jeffrey DeLong, Jumpstart Automotive Media
Jason was a pleasure to work with. Very professional and delivers a product over and above expectations. Jason understands the big picture and is the best when it comes to developing websites.
Meaghan Neuberger, Hahn Dental Clinic
Red Bicycle read my mind. The design and functionality was exactly what I had envisioned. I couldn’t be more pleased with the website. [It] has truly done wonders for my business—and it’s only been live for a few weeks!
My Photographic Memory, My Photographic Memory
I quickly realized that Jason is more than a web developer and designer. He has a tremendous understanding of my unique business needs and identifies the simplest, best, and most cost-effective online solutions. His approach and communication makes an otherwise monumental task of building an online business from scratch straight-forward and attainable. He seems to always have a solution for any need or problem in my business.
Stephen Lan, Film Publicist
Jason Morehead is everything I could have asked from a web programmer: fast, reliable, and efficient. Because he was dedicated to my project, I was able to reach my deadlines and service my own clients.
Todd Brown, Twitch
An absolute dream to work with: responsive, blazing fast and very, very skilled. A perfect blend of talent and service, I can’t recommend highly enough.
Who We Are
Jason Morehead
Back in 1995, a co-worker handed me a photocopy of an article on something called HTML. Ever since then, I’ve been continually honing my skills, working to become as fluent in HTML and PHP as I am in Photoshop. (It’s a never-ending process, but that’s why I find web development so enjoyable and fulfilling: I’m continually learning something new.)
As the principle designer of Red Bicycle, my goal is to ensure that every website I’m involved in is well crafted. This means they are aesthetically pleasing and beautiful to look at, easy for the sites’ visitors to use and navigate, easy to for my clients to maintain and update, and consistent with web development best practices (e.g., web standards, accessibility standards). Nothing less is accepted.
I graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1998 with a bachelor’s degree in advertising (as well as minors in English, history, and art history, if you’re curious). I then began working for what would eventually become Firespring, a marketing company with over 3,000 clients around the globe (including Fedex Kinko’s, St. Baldrick’s, and Minuteman Press International, Inc.). There, I focus on standards-based design, user interface design, usability, web application development, and content management solutions.
In addition to my design work at both Firespring and Red Bicycle, I have also led seminars on topics ranging from modern web development and search engine optimization to Japanese pop culture and the music of Arcade Fire. When I’m not working on other people’s websites, I am often working on my own: Opus, a long-running website where I write about music, film, art, religion, and whatever else happens to strike my fancy at the time.
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Red Bicycle?
So what‘s the deal with our name, you ask? Here‘s the story: Renae was talking with her cousin one time about prayer, and how, when you‘re a kid, you think that it‘s not okay to pray for those things that you really, really want—like a shiny red bicycle.
Since then, “red bicycle” has become shorthand for those things that we want the most—and that we don‘t want to be afraid to hope for. It struck us as the perfect name for our company, since it lets us pursue those vocations that we truly love and enjoy.