Stoll Berne is a leading regional law firm,

Deeply rooted in the great Northwest and nationally recognized for outstanding work for more than 30 years, Stoll Berne has achieved extraordinary results for our clients through practical, strategic and tenacious representation.

Level OS partnered with Stoll Berne to develop an attractive and practical dynamic website. Some of the project goals were to convey the firms new image and intuitively present complex and related information such as cases, attorney bios, areas of practice and articles. We turned to Drupal for the job. It's amazing ability to relate different types of content using views with dynamic arguments sealed the deal. For example, if you look at an attorney bio page such as Steve Larson's, it automatically lists all of that attorney's areas of practice. And the article link will show a filtered of list of articles where Steve made a contribution. Additionally, combining Drupal's core capabilities with some contributed modules makes for a top tier content management system, allowing Stoll Berne administrators to control every aspect of the site, from the menu structure to creating pages and other types of content, easily through the web based administration tools.

Alex and Shannon Pasco of PaperRadish were my design partners for this project, and they did an amazing job. Above is a screen shot of the site home page.  David Galyardt of Jetboy Studios did an amazing job developing the theme for the website.  Thanks to everyone involved in the project!

I arrived yesterday at the much anticipated SXSW 2008 Interactive festival and conference.  The conference is one of the largest discussions of technology, design, and culture and I am very excited to be here.  While I came down alone, I am sharing a room generously offerred by Adam Duvander, my parter in MomHub Hal Newton is here, and Rick Turcozy wrote about the many other folks from Portland that are here.  The biggest challenge I now face is deciding what panels to attend - there are about a dozen going on at any given time.

Session #1: Filching Design

Discussion about the pros and cons of borrowing designs and ideas from other sites.  The crowd was about half designers and half developers and, not surprisingly the developers felt it was alrigh to steal designs, and the designers code.  Jarred Spool was in the crowd and pointed out that the panel was mincing concepts by confusing trademarks, patents, and copyrights.  Hal later pointed out that the panel was fun and all, but really a bunch of designers playing lawyer

Session #2a: Contextual Web

Session #2b:e-commerce lessons from Zappos.com

Session #3: Keynote - conversation with Henry Jenkins and Steven Johnson

Session #4:Jason Fried - 10 things we learned at 37Signals

Evening Events

Frog Design opening party at the Mexican American Cultural Center.  

Beginning this Saturday, Level OS global headquarters will move to TenPod, a collecive space in the new Rocket Building on E Burnside and Sandy.  The building itself is stunning LEED certified project by Portland architect Kevin Cavenaugh.  With a striking bright red exterior, unique exterior art panels, and a wide open airy space, it will be a great place to settle into on a daily basis.

The collective nature of TenPod is another way this is not your typical office space.  The 12 desk space has no walls separating the businesses, just a collection of spacious built in desks.  So there are plenty of chances to get to know, and potentially collaborate with, your neighbors.  There is also a shared deck, conference room, and kitchen.

While I will miss my current downtown home, and appreciate the tremendous hospitality Mark and the Vision Site team have shown me the past few years, I am very excited about this change.  Please come on by for a visit starting next week!

My new address:
1111 E Burnside, #306
Portland, OR 97214