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When we're not busy working hard for our clients, we have time to develop new tools and contribute them to open source projects, pursue new partnerships, and stay current on our industry.

  • Message Agency launches Franklin's Paine!
    3/16/12
    We're pleased to announce the launch of a new website for the Franklin's Paine Skatepark Fund. This organization advocates for urban skateparks and skaters, provides educational opportunities for local kids both on and off their boards, and builds free skateparks.
  • Message Agency launches the Historical Society of Pennsylvania website
    1/24/12
    HSP contacted Message Agency and Tabula Creative Communications to help redevelop their extensive website. Our solution needed to include a membership component, with granular levels of content access for different types of members; a full content moderation system in use with HSP's nine blogs and multiple authors and administrators; an educational section, with downloadable resources for teachers and students; and integration with HSP's existing third-party digital document repositories.
  • Message Agency launches the HIAS Pennsylvania website
    12/13/11
    Message Agency is pleased to announce the launch of the new hiaspa.org website! HIAS is an established 501(c)(3) nonprofit agency, founded in 1882, which provides legal services and assistance to recent immigrants. With so much history behind them, HIAS wanted a website which highlighted their wide range of services and resources, yet maintained a classic style and easy-to-use navigation.
  • Message Agency launches the new WomensWay.org
    11/15/11
    We're happy to announce the launch of another new website. Women's Way is a grantmaking and advocacy organization that supports women's issues in the region.
  • Serving a localized, cached navigation menu with cookies and javascript
    10/04/11
    OK, so the title of this blog post is some fancy jargon to succinctly explain an issue I ran into when dealing with a very specific client request.
  • Message Agency launches Breakthrough Philadelphia!
    6/24/11
    We are pleased to announce the launch of Breakthrough Philadelphia's new website! Breakthrough of Greater Philadelphia is an academic enrichment program that helps guide low-income students from middle school to college. Message Agency created a site for them which is engaging and informative.
  • The Mann Gets a Facelift
    6/16/11
    Message Agency recently had the opportunity to perform a makeover on the home page for the Mann Music Center, a site we developed in cooperation with Tabula Creative. While we maintained the functionality we built last year, the Mann wanted to incorporate their new logo and color scheme.
  • Message Agency launches Global Philadelphia
    5/23/11
    Message Agency is happy to announce the launch of GlobalPhiladelphia.org, the website of the Global Philadelphia Association. GPA brings together businesses, organizations, and individuals who are part of the international communities here in Philly. We had the opportunity to work closely with the budding organization's all-volunteer staff on content creation as well as development. Congratulations, GPA!
  • Message Agency launches the Pig Iron School for Advanced Performance Training website
    4/22/11
    Message Agency is pleased to announce the launch of PigIronSchool.org. The Pig Iron Theatre Company's School for Advanced Performance Training wanted to keep things simple, but still have a dynamic site they could update themselves. We designed and built them a site which is both visually appealing and easy to manage.
  • Message Agency at the Salesforce CMS Integration Showdown: Drupal, Plone, and Joomla at NTC
    3/06/11
    Join us at the NTC conference on 3/18 to see how Drupal measures up! Message Agency will join Christopher Johnson of ifPeople and Ryan Ozimek of PICnet at NTEN's Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) in DC to compare and contrast the Salesforce integrations our firms have built for three open source content management systems: Drupal, Plone, and Joomla.