ANOMALY INCORPORATED

We’re excited to announce the launch of Emmbook for Baby, which we developed in cooperation with Perry Street Productions. Emmbook is an iPhone app enabling parents to record their baby’s milestones, moments, favorites, and photos. We had a great time developing this app, and are excited to see it start to gain some traction in the App Store.

We’re also thrilled to report that we made great use of Joe Hewitt’s Three20 Project to enable some really great-looking transitions in the “scrapbook” portion of our app. Thanks, Joe!

You can read more about Emmbook For Baby here, and if you’re a new parent, you just might like to grab it from the App Store.

Founded in 2001, Crag Law Center has since developed an impressive environmental advocacy track record, including protecting Mt. Hood and other Cascade peaks from development, promoting livable communities, and helping protect northwest forests. We’re proud to have them as a client, and are incredibly pleased to have completed a major revamp of the Crag website.

The Crag website has long been a valuable resource for followers of environmental justice — featuring court filings, opinions, activist resources, and a wealth of background information on the cases Crag handles. In addition to adding a fresh look, we’ve updated it with blog posts, on-site search, and automatic indexing of case documents.

We hope you like the new crag.org as much as we do!

We’ve just finished up and launched the new website for the Pearl Women’s Center, a unique medical practice here in Portland’s Pearl District:

We developed the site in collaboration with the incredibly talented creative team at The Maris Agency, and we’re very, very pleased with the results — a clean, brand-tuned facelift (no pun intended) for a stylish, boutique client.

In this build, we had the opportunity to try out some great new cross-browser-compatible interactive techniques. In the end, we ended up using both the script.aculo.us and JQuery libraries, and some fantastic open-source extensions of each, to enhance several different areas of the site.

In particular, for the before/after image galleries, we made use of the fantastic Galleria extension to JQuery, which, in coordination with WordPress (and no small amount of tinkering to make it all look just right), made possible the dynamic, cross-browser, hack-free photo galleries that grace the PWC website. Much respect and thanks to the developers of Galleria for their great contribution to the world of image galleries.

As alluded to above, the other great tool at the heart of this project is WordPress — originally developed as a blogging platform, it makes a wonderful CMS as well. The ease of extensibility and sensibly-uncomplicated template system made for a very fast and fun build, leaving plenty of room in our schedule for well-nigh-obsessive detail tweaking.

We’re experimenting with custom WordPress plug-in development, and are looking forward to making much use of it in upcoming projects.