Peapod Studios is on the lookout for a web developer to join our close-knit team crafting engaging experiences for a variety of outstanding clients. If you wield semantic HTML and efficient CSS like a boss, join us in crafting great work. Although you’ll be mainly working with PHP-based content management systems such as Drupal and WordPress, you can also expect to have some fun with third-party APIs.

Your main responsibilities:

You’ll be working with our Senior Developer and design team to build new standards-compliant Drupal and WordPress themes from PSD files and style guides. Detail is our middle name, so you’ll need to stay sharp! You’ll be developing custom Drupal modules and WordPress configurations as needed, and be fully engaged in our project process, acting as an advocate for technical excellence.

You will need to have:

• Outstanding HTML, JavaScript, JSON/AJAX, and CSS Skills
• Know what the implications of HTML5 and related technologies are
• Ability to create Drupal and WordPress themes and extensions from scratch
• Experience working with relational database systems, particularly MySQL
• Excellent organization and communication skills
• Be almost as detail-orientated as our Creative Director
• Be self-motivated, able to work independently without constant supervision

What you’ll need to rock this gig:

• Love for client services
• Passion for clean, elegant code and a hunger to keep making it better
• Thirst for knowledge and desire to keep expanding your skills
• Strong drive to achieve goals and the self-motivation to get there
• Excellent ability to stay on top of a variety of competing tasks and priorities

If you are interested in this position, please send your resume/portfolio to jobs@peapod.ca
Thank you for your response, only those selected for interview will be contacted.

As a key member of our interactive team you would be designing websites and application interfaces for a diverse client base, coming up with creative concepts, and refining concepts based upon client feedback provided to you. Working closely with our Art Director on external projects and on internal sales/marketing/print collateral. You would also be working with front end developers providing Production ready files, HTML & CSS development – with a strong understanding of standards-compliant HTML and CSS, as well as a desire to grow in this area.

Key Qualifications:

Experience designing for multiple mediums ( Online Portfolio required )

• Adobe CS4 CS5 expertise
• HTML & CSS proficiency (w3-compliant)
• Experience with rapid prototyping of interfaces
• Attention to detail and a genuine passion for designing beautiful, polished interfaces.
• Demonstrated experience developing UI for web-based applications
• Sensitivity to typography and colour – you know when things just “look right”
• Good organizational skills

• Familiarity with Mac OSX

You should Have:

• Experience in an agency/client services environment
• Working with multiple clients / deadlines.
• Demonstrable experience in web application design
• Strong knowledge of user interface principles.
• Strong communication skills

If you are interested in this position, please send your resume/portfolio to jobs@peapod.ca
Thank you for your response, only those selected for interview will be contacted.

Peapod is now searching for an exceptional person to fill the position below. If you don’t feel your skills are a match for the open position we have posted, but would add value in another position, please contact us anyway. We are always interested in hearing from great people.

Web/graphic designer

We are seeking an amazing designer. As a key member of our interactive team you would be designing websites and application interfaces for a diverse client base, coming up with creative concepts all on your own, and refining concepts based upon client feedback provided to you. Working closely with our Art director on external projects and on internal sales/marketing/print collateral. You would also be working with front end developers providing Production ready files, HTML & CSS development – At least a basic understanding of standards-compliant HTML and CSS is required, as well as a desire to grow in this area.

Key Qualifications:

Experience designing for multiple mediums (Online Portfolio required)

• Adobe CS4 expertise
• HTML & CSS proficiency (w3-compliant)
• Experience with rapid prototyping of interfaces
• Attention to detail and a genuine passion for designing beautiful, polished interfaces.
• Demonstrated experience developing UI for web-based applications
• Sensitivity to typography and colour – you know when things just “look right”
• Good organizational skills
• Familiarity with Mac OSX

You should Have:

• Experience in an agency/client services environment
• Working with multiple clients / deadlines.
• Demonstrable experience in web application design
• Strong knowledge of user interface principles.
• Strong communication skills

If you are interested in this position, please send your resume/portfolio to jobs@peapod.ca

Thank you for your response, only those selected for interview will be contacted.

Peapod Studios is a total Apple environment, everywhere I look there is an Apple product. Oh look there is an iMac, iPad, Macbook Pro, Macbook Air or an iPhone4. I have always been ok with the relationship I have with my Blackberry, in fact you might actually say I love my Blackberry (or is that loved?).

As I sit here day after day though I am starting to realize that my mobile device is not as awesome as I once thought. Take away the whole mobile carrier issue (yes I am with Bell while it seems everyone else is with Rogers) and what you are left with is the devices themselves. Three months ago when I started at Peapod Studios everyone in the office had an iPhone3. I will admit I was jealous of their touch screens and the awesome applications they had access to but the one thing I knew I had on all of them was wicked battery life and an equally crappy camera.

With the introduction to the iPhone4′s at Peapod Studios it is really starting to show me that my Blackberry just isn’t up to par with the rest. When I took a picture of our office Spock I thought “Man that looks pretty rad” and then Alistair came in with his big bad awesome iPhone4 and showed me who was the Photo Boss. After having the opportunity to gaze lovingly at the screen of the iPhone4 I realize that I can no longer look at my Blackberry Curve 8330 screen in the same way. I feel its blurring pixels mocking me and its tiny screen trying its very best to make me squint (which it has succeeded at many times). While everyone else is Facetiming each other I am left sitting at my desk wishing for someones face to pop up on my phone. I used to be proud of my fast typing ability, having a raised keyboard has always put my far above the rest when it came to sending out a message with speed and accuracy and then the iPhone4 came along and put me in my place. I’m not sure that the touch screen keyboard is any better than my raised keyboard but after a typing war between a coworker it ended up pretty much a tie.

Everything that I thought made my Blackberry great has slowly dissolved. I am the only one with BBM which means I cant interact with any of my coworkers unless I download WhatsUp or Kik or some other sort of cross platform messaging system. My Blackberry is an older model though so many applications just wont work or even if I can download them and they do work they tend to freeze my Blackberry. I have a trackball while everyone else has a touch screen. Even in the winter it is easier to use a touchscreen than roll a ball with a mitten on. Sure my Blackberry is red which gives it a little pizzaz but the iPhone4 beats that with its creative and interesting cases. I cant pretend that I don’t love my Blackberry for what it has been able to help me with. Its a smartphone which has given me the opportunity to access the internet while I am out and about, I can access emails and text faster then most of my peers. Without it I wouldn’t have this opportunity at Peapod Studios.

Right now I am one lonely Blackberry in a sea of Apples, there are somedays that I feel pretty left out of all the fun and glamourous times the rest are having but in all honestly I am not ready for the responsibility and power owning an iPhone4 would bring me so until I am ready I will just stick with being the antioxidant in the fibrous fruit salad.

The Office Coordinator is the glue that holds Peapod together. An important role that includes managing and coordinating day-to-day tasks such as, organizing the studio, manning the phones, coordinating meetings, ordering office supplies, plus additional administrative tasks.

Skills and Abilities

• Ability to build rapport and work effectively with all studio members and clients
• Able to juggle many tasks within a short timeframe, with effective prioritization
• Positive, mature and professional, can-do attitude
• Detail oriented, self-sufficient and organized
• Must work independently with minimal supervision
• Solid written and verbal communication skills
• Proactive thinker who seeks to create efficiencies within the work environment
• Intermediate knowledge of MS Office Suite

Experience

• 1-2 years experience in an office environment
• Reception and customer service experience an asset
• Basic accounting and payroll

Nice to Have

• Project management experience
• Interest in design and interactive services

If you are interested in this position, please send your resume by email to jobs@peapod.ca

Thank you for your response, only those selected for interview will be contacted.

There is a great deal of discovery and strategy that goes into creating the final products we deliver. We start with several sessions of discovery, where we set the basic goals and criteria we’d like the clients site to meet.

Then we develop several individualized personas of who the key users and stakeholders of the site will be. Personalizing a users experience dealing with a website is a key part of ensuring success. We develop several pathways throughout the site, for them to easily obtain the information they desire or have come for while navigating the site.

Architecture and Strategy Documentation

We take all of this information and use it to develop our Architecture and Strategy document. This will serve as a resource for both our developers and the client to refer to as we move forward to the point where we can begin the preliminary site mapping and wire-framing of the eventual site build.

WireFrames

Once we have established the web sites core functionality and layout only then can we move into creating the initial rounds of designs, a process we call skinning. Initially we like to provide the client with three distinct rounds of creative, allowing the client to have several choices in the future direction of the design.

Design Begins

Taking the clients feedback from the intial three mockups we can begin to build out more honed designs based on their feedback. This is not a perfect science, sometimes a client will go through more than one round of creative, although sometimes we nail it from the get go.

Design Sign Off

WIth all the elements in place, we finally have the basis for build.

The documentation we have from the preliminary steps allows the developers to work knowing the ins and outs of the final structure, and gives them an extensive library to refer to. Art direction is minimized as most of the design lives within the styles created in the skinning stage.

Asigra.com

Unfortunately until this week there was no option for Mac users to experience the innovative design and workflow Bumptop had created for PC desktops.

Well all that changed this week, when the fully realized Bumptop for Mac edition was released.

At first blush it’s immediately apparent Bumptop has put quite a bit of polish into its new release. It’s an absolutely gorgeous, well conceived user experience treatment of your standard desktop. It’s integration into workflow makes me believe that it was Apple itself that implemented this edition, or at least they’ll try to nab bits of it for later releases.

The basic version is free for download, and for a mere $29 you can upgrade for a more feature rich full version.

Peapod Studios has upgraded our toolset to include Apple’s new 27 inch Quad Core iMacs. At first blush this may seem a bit like overkill, but we wanted to be able to work without the interruption of the annoying spinning beach ball ( and work on our tans all at once.)

With the addition of the 27 inch Dell 2707 as our secondary monitors, we’re working with about 5.9 MegaPixels of desktop per machine.

NERD ALERT!