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“The world’s greatest treasure hunt is a real million dollar treasure hunt. One hundred percent of the net proceeds go to breast cancer research…“The treasure hunt was started in memory of Gabi Helms who, when stricken with breast cancer, had to make the difficult choice between saving her own life or that of her unborn child. She chose her baby, and passed away 2 days after giving birth.

“This real million dollar treasure hunt where families, teams or individuals can treasure hunt with a purpose. It is sort of like the Amazing Race but for everyone. Buy the book, find the $1,000,000 treasure and help us raise money for breast cancer research.”

CB&F is thrilled to participate in supporting this major contest, as well as raising funds for breast cancer research. Watch this site for more announcements and links to these new products.

Stay tuned for more!

A Vancouver business and a Victoria-area entrepreneur have contracted with Charles Buchwald and Friends to develop new iOS based apps. Currently in development, both are anticipated to debut in the Apple App Store in Q3, 2011, with Android versions following quickly.

While CB&F’s three key advantages for app development—publishing on multiple platforms from the same code base, reduced development time, and significant depth of experience—are helping to realize these projects quickly and efficiently, finely tuned marketing programmes will separate them from the crowd.

Do you have an app idea? Contact Charles Buchwald & Friends and let’s grab a cup of coffee and discuss it.

Living Carbon’s Briony Penn worked with lead developer and designer Charles Buchwald and others to create the design and site architecture. With a quickly developing mandate in a constantly changing business and governmental landscape, flexibility was a key design criteria. The Headway meta-theme and WordPress CMS keep the site highly responsive, flexible, and easy to maintain.

Original illustrations by Penn have been combined with a voiceover by Buchwald into an effective and friendly introductory video. Working with a tight budget and limited time constraints, the simple animation conveys a sense of the company purpose and method in a concise way, helping to explain the complex process of living carbon offsets.

Charles Buchwald & Friends is proud to be a part of this innovative BC conservation initiative. Please visit the new site to find out more and participate in their projects.

A simple shopping cart, combined with the WordPress gallery feature, makes for an easy to manage ecommerce solution. PayPal helps maintain online buyer confidence and simplify the payment system. “Easy” is the key word, since maintenance of the site falls to Simon and Stephanie, while they also create, sell, and photograph their beautiful jewelry.

The custom WordPress theme, developed by CB&F, takes it inspiration from the jewellers’ colourful and evocative booth sign, with a forest/ocean/moonlight motif. This helps build brand recognition by maintaining the consistency of their visual identity, and reflecting their unique Northwest Coast island design sense.

Check out the new site, and leave a comment about your impressions!

The 22 page book(let) is being printed, and has been compiled for online distribution as an Acrobat (PDF) document, as well as a variety of ebook formats (including ePub and others) planned for online distribution on the Tasman website, the Apple iBook store, and other ebook distribution websites.

Charles Buchwald and Friends drew on a depth of experience with publication design and integrated production methods to produce the print files and ebook files with particular expediency and efficiency. With the increasing popularity of ebook distribution, it’s anticipated that these innovative production techniques will help advance strong and cost effective publication-based marketing efforts in the future.

UPDATE: View the PDF or ebooks in EPUB, MOBI or PDB format.

A simple implementation of the WordPress CMS helps ensure the site is easy to update and otherwise maintain and expand. A custom logo and illustrations developed for a promotional print piece add character while reinforcing a consistent message. Understated design and animation convey Janelle’s commitment to quality and tasteful innovation and reflect a bit of the rich agricultural and cultural heritage of Salt Spring Island.

Dr. Shira has recently completed work with Charles Buchwald & Friends to develop a new site highlighting her online writing, workshops, seminars, books, CD’s, and radio show. The CB&F implementation makes it easy to updated and maintain, protects her investment of time and effort, positions her for excellent search engine results, and enhances her message with a coordinated visual presence.

With estimates of as much as 90 percent of travel planning taking place online, this family oriented resort was feeling the need to open up a clearer conduit between staff, customers, and potential customers. The former static, brochure-like site’s outdated look and feel, lack of functionality, and difficult maintenance had become liabilities. Outdated photos and information gave an inaccurate picture of facilities that have undergone significant renovations. After a thorough selection process, CB&F was brought in to make changes.

We created a flexible framework to show not only the updated facilities, but just as importantly the carefully cultivated family friendly atmosphere at the resort. The result is a site that can be easily and quickly kept current, and shows off the business to good advantage. Key communication channels are quick, easy and reliable, encouraging quality contact from returning and potential customers.

Check it out! And if you’re coming to Saltspring with your kids, and need a place to stay and swim and soak in the island atmosphere, be sure to contact the friendly folks at Cedar Beach Resort.