Services for social web development

Founding Turtle Interactive in 2000, Tim Bednar is a senior web developer with extensive experience guiding teams to creatively develop social web sites and applications. He is a though-leader in creating online community for churches and para-church organizations.

On large projects, Turtle Interactive partners with trusted professionals for additional programing, graphic, copy-writing and project management services.

What is social design?

Social design thinks about web sites in terms of its how it creates and maintains relationships between content, readers, customers, members or stakeholders. It gives your audience tools to connect with each other.

Social design not only creates nice things to look at or cool interactions; it builds relationships. Social networks are the new currency of the web and the key the success of your project.

Using social design to drive your new project puts the people you serve in the center of the process.

Web Site Design

Tim collaborates with clients to create a unique look and feel for your web site that reflects the vibe and mission of your organization. As an expert front-end coder, he can also team with your graphic designer to code web standard HTML and CSS.

Application Design

Web application design requires a wide range of skills that combines graphic design, information architecture and interaction design. With eight years of experience building the interactive web, Tim can take your project from conception to production.

He can help write specifications as well as build prototypes. He often works with cross-functional teams to execute the final application. However, as platforms like Drupal get more robust, he often can use an open source framework to build the application.

Development

Over the years, Tim has worked within a wide variety of content management and application frameworks (classic ASP, .NET, Java and PHP). His greatest strength is to leverage open source software to rapidly build what client’s require.

Tim supports advanced development for Drupal, Expression Engine, WordPress and Textpattern. This involves using a wide variety of modules, plug-ins and extensions for each of these platforms as well as custom template development.

Consulting

Tim has been experimenting online since 1997 and is widely regarded as a thought-leader for churches, para-church and nonprofit organizations. All clients benefit from his experience and expertise in this area, but several organizations have sought out his counsel:

  • United Methodist Publishing and Abingdon Press
  • American Bible Society
  • Emergent Village
  • Greg Boyd and Christus Victor Ministries

    Free to ask

    Tim encourages calls (612-205-8121) and loves to hear about new projects. If Turtle Interactive is not a good fit for your project, he has a large network and often is a good source for a referrals.