North Knight Software

We've been extremely busy during the last few months here at North Knight Software. Among a number of other things, we've worked with MT&L Public Relations on three projects.

Mind Your Mouth — http://mindyourmouth.ca/

This site is built on a custom content management platform which allows employees of the Nova Scotia Dental Association to easily modify the site. A custom version of Google Search is integrated into the site to allow searching first based on keywords chosen by the Dental Association, and then falling back to using the answer text itself. The design elements were provided by MT&L, and markup, styling, and development were handled by North Knight Software.

The Best Thing You'll Never Do — http://www.bestthingyoullneverdo.ca/

For this project we created the "pledge form" where users can support the anti-litter campaign. When a user submits a new pledge, an email is sent off to an administrative user with a link which can be clicked to approve the pledge and post it to the website.

Tour for the Cure — http://www.tourforthecure.ca/

This project had two parts:

The website
We constructed the Tour for the Cure site from some great design elements provided by MT&L. Because we needed to get the site up and running quickly, we chose to use Drupal as its base and then wrote several custom modules. One example of this is in the Tour Stops section — each of the tour stops is maintained in a spreadsheet which is read by a script to update the custom Google Map.

The touchscreens
We were asked by MT&L to create two touchscreen survey kiosks for the bus. The idea is, once visitors have toured the bus, they can fill out a survey to gauge their experience. Because the survey is voluntary, we needed to create something very easy to use, and visually captivating.

During the creation of the touchscreen survey we worked with graphic designers from MT&L to ensure consistency with the overall Tour for the Cure design. We also added our own user interface design experience, adding a number of interesting visual effects. The end product was created on top of Mac OS X, and makes use of some fun technologies, including Core Animation and Quartz Composer.