"Crockin" Girls" Jenna Marwitz and Nicole Sparks, Heat Up with New Web-based Social Site built for Community

Dallas, Texas (PRWEB) February 15, 2012

Crockin’ Girls Jenna Marwitz and Nicole Sparks, best friends and business partners who champion the slow-cook method for busy moms, launched a new web site late last month. The site is already on track to have 100,000 users with recipes and videos added daily, proving they have not only a savvy sense of what busy moms and cooks care about but their pulse on a simmering phenomenon.

The Crockin’ Girls tapped Dallas-local website experts US Joomla Pros to bring their vision of a friendly, open community to the Internet. The web site allows their community to grow at an accelerated pace without being held back by technology or some of the inherent usability that rapid growth can sometimes bring.

Shawn & Scott Prendergast of US Joomla Pros helped deliver the Crockin’ Girls website. Using the Joomla Content Management System, they have demonstrated how a solid knowledge of this system, social aspects of programming and interactive marketing could manifest this dream idea into reality. Using key components in Joomla such as Community Builder and K2, plus understanding how Joomla, PHP and MySQL can come together made a site that can grow so quickly a reality, Shawn said. It’s community-based sites like this one that require rapid growth out of the box, that really show how flexible and stable Joomla development can be, Scott added. “We are pleased with marriage of solid idea and stable technology that make Crockingirls.com the success it promises to be.”

ABOUT CROCKIN GIRLS

Best friends, business partners, and small-town girls Jenna Marwitz and Nicole Sparks are known to their many slow-cooking aficionados as the Crockin Girls.

A fun and fast way to post and share recipes with their family and friends quickly went viral, burgeoning into a highly trafficked website and widely Liked Facebook page. Their tagline, Slow Cookin Mamas in a Fast-Paced World, perfectly encapsulates their philosophy of helping busy folks spend less time in the kitchen and more time with their loved ones.

For information about the Crockin’ Girls cookbooks, magazine, and other publishing inquiries, please email publishing(at)crockingirls.com

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"Crockin" Girls" Jenna Marwitz and Nicole Sparks, Heat Up with New Web-based Social Site built for Community

Project6 Design Completes Web Design and Build for National Girls Institute

Berkeley, CA (PRWEB) February 29, 2012

Project6 Design, an award-winning San Francisco Bay Area design and branding agency, proudly launches the website for the National Girls Institute (NGI), a non-profit organization whose mission is to advance understanding of girls issues and improve program and system responses to girls in the juvenile justice system.

NGI is a federally-funded partnership between the National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD) and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP). Project6 worked closely with both organizations on the user interface and design, ensuring a smooth process throughout. Additionally, Project6 is working with NCCD on the web design and build of several other inspiring websites, due to launch in upcoming months.

The NGI website is built with WordPress, an open-source content management system (CMS). WordPress is one of the most popular content management systems in use on the Internet, and it allows the NGI Team to add, edit or delete web site content quickly and easily.

Supporting Quotes

Working with Project6 was an absolute pleasure, says Dr. Lawanda Ravoira, Director of the National Girls Institute. They took our vision and turned it into a clean and functional design. Their team was extremely professional, and worked with us to stay within our budget and short timeframe. We are very pleased with the website!

Project6 has been honored to partner with NGI and NCCD on this very inspiring website, says Esten Sesto, president, Project6. Our goal was to create a web design and build that connects with their users in a meaningful way, with an emphasis on the clean user interface and design Project6 has become known for.

About National Girls Institute (NGI)

The National Girls Institute (NGI) is a federally-funded partnership between the National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD) and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP). NGI is a research-based training and resource clearinghouse designed to advance understanding of girls issues and improve program and system responses to girls in the juvenile justice system. For more information about NGI, visit http://www.nationalgirlsinstitute.org.

About National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD)

NCCD promotes just and equitable social systems for individuals, families, and communities through research, public policy, and practice. For more information about NCCD, visit http://www.nccd-crc.org.

About Project6 Design, Inc.

Project6 Design is a San Francisco Bay Area (Berkeley, CA) based graphic design agency that specializes in strategic brand, print and web design and build services. The Project6 creative process elicits your true brand character, engages your target market, and has measurable results. Our design firm’s services include branding identity, logo design, HTML emails, web design and build, and print design. Project6 Design works with clients in a variety of industries including: Non-Profit, Retail, Solar Power, High-Tech, Education and more. High-profile clients include UCSF, UC Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and The Gladstone Institutes. Other clients include the Gap, Old Navy, eBay, United Way, and Serena Software. For more information, call 510.540.8005 ext.100, email: info[at]project6[dot]com or visit http://www.project6.com.

CONTACTS

For NCCD

Renee Plog

Communications Manager

800.306.6223

rplog[at]sf.nccd-crc[dot]org

For NGI

Beth Daniel

Office Manager

800.795.4644

bdaniel[at]nationalgirlsinstitute[dot]org

For Project6 Design

Esten Sesto

Founder & President

510.540.8005 ext. 100

esten[at]project6[dot]com

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Project6 Design Wins Davey Award for Nonprofit Website Design With National Girls Institute

Berkeley, CA (PRWEB) October 30, 2012

San Francisco Bay Area branding and design firm Project6 Design has received a new honor from The 2012 Davey Awards, presented by The International Academy of the Visual Arts (IAVA) in recognition of the finest creative work from the worlds best small firms, agencies, and companies. Project6 received a Silver Award in the Charitable Organizations category for their website design for nonprofit the National Girls Institute (NGI), whose mission is to advance understanding of girls issues and improve program and system responses to girls in the juvenile justice system.

NGI is a federally-funded partnership between the National Council on Crime and Delinquency and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Project6 worked closely with both organizations on the website design, ensuring a smooth process throughout.

The NGI website was built with WordPress, an open-source content management system (CMS). WordPress is one of the most popular content management systems in use on the Internet, and it allows the NGI Team to update and maintain web site content quickly and easily.

Project6 is extremely honored to be recognized with a 2012 Davey Award for our partnership with NGI on this very inspiring website, says Esten Sesto, president, Project6. Our goal was to create a website that connects with their users in a meaningful way, with an emphasis on the clean design Project6 has become known for.

This years winners, declares Linda Day, Executive Director of the IAVA, truly represent a smart, nimble approach to creativity and embody the quick thinking, resourceful nature that make small agencies so unique.

About The Davey Awards

The Davey Awards are sponsored by The International Academy of the Visual Arts (IAVA), an organization consisting of top-tier media, advertising, and marketing professionals from the worlds leading organizations and firms. Each year, The Davey Awards honors the Davids of creativity the smaller agencies, companies, or organizations with annual billings or revenues below certain levels that derive their strength from big ideas, rather than big budgets.

About National Girls Institute (NGI)

The National Girls Institute is a federally-funded partnership between the National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD) and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. NGI is a research-based training and resource clearinghouse designed to advance understanding of girls issues and improve program and system responses to girls in the juvenile justice system. For more information about The National Girls Institute, visit http://www.nationalgirlsinstitute.org.

About National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD)

NCCD promotes just and equitable social systems for individuals, families, and communities through research, public policy, and practice. For more information about NCCD, visit http://www.nccdglobal.org.

About Project6 Design, Inc.

Project6 Design, established in 2001, is an award-winning San Francisco Bay Area (Berkeley, CA) based graphic design firm that specializes in strategic brand, print, web design, and Drupal development services. Their unique process helps clients differentiate, validate their brand, and solve complex usability problems. Experts in the areas of High-Tech, Retail, Education, and Nonprofit, clients include the Serena Software, eBay, CA Technologies, Old Navy, Gap, University of California – San Francisco, Stanford University, United Way, and the Seibel Foundation. For more information, call (510) 540-8005, email info[at]project6[dot]com, or visit http://www.project6.com.

Contact:

Project6 Design, Inc.

Esten Sesto

President

(510) 540-8005 ext. 100

esten[at]project6[dot]com

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