ABOUT | FOSTER MADE

Meet the team at Foster Made. We're a digital development and design agency whose work in technology starts with people. EXPERTISE | FOSTER MADE Websites. We specialize in the end-to-end creation of thoughtfully crafted web experiences, designed and built on leading technology platforms to delight your users and empower your content publishers.

CASE STUDIES

Case Study. The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Helping a nonprofit arts and culture grantmaker foster a vibrant community in Greater

Philadelphia

ALGOLIA | FOSTER MADE Technologies. Algolia Engage your users with a modern search and discovery experience that matters. Our team of Algolia certified experts create personalized search experiences that drive user engagement, satisfaction, and conversions. CUSTOM CRAFT CMS DEVELOPMENT AGENCY Using Craft CMS to create a vibrant & professional marketing website. Workshop Digital is a digital marketing agency that builds customized SEO, PPC, and CRO strategies to help businesses grow. MAKING SPEECH-TO-TEXT WORK WITH REACT NATIVE AND EXPO Here are the steps in our voice search: The device asks for permission to use the microphone using Expo’s Permissions API.; Expo’s Audio API is used to record an audio file of the user’s speech.; The audio file is sent to a Google Cloud function, which in turn sends it to the

Google Speech API.

TESTING ELASTICSEARCH AND SIMPLIFYING QUERY BUILDING Recently, I've worked with a client on enhancing search throughout their site. Simple queries in the system could take a couple seconds or more -- searching through fewer than 4000 items! GETTING STARTED WITH GRAPHQL IN LARAVEL As you can notice, the “User” type defined here is a custom type that contains 3 fields (id, name, email). Those fields could be of a scalar type or another custom type. EMAIL TESTING FOR DEVELOPMENT USING MAILCATCHER Over the past four years at Foster Made, I have been afforded many opportunities to work on exciting and custom projects. Each has presented its own set of unique challenges, but all of

JONATHAN COX

What do I do at Foster Made? With a current focus in Symfony and Laravel, Jonathan is an application developer who contributes and draws from nearly a decade of experience in numerous PHP frameworks.

ABOUT | FOSTER MADE

Meet the team at Foster Made. We're a digital development and design agency whose work in technology starts with people. EXPERTISE | FOSTER MADE Websites. We specialize in the end-to-end creation of thoughtfully crafted web experiences, designed and built on leading technology platforms to delight your users and empower your content publishers.

CASE STUDIES

Case Study. The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Helping a nonprofit arts and culture grantmaker foster a vibrant community in Greater

Philadelphia

ALGOLIA | FOSTER MADE Technologies. Algolia Engage your users with a modern search and discovery experience that matters. Our team of Algolia certified experts create personalized search experiences that drive user engagement, satisfaction, and conversions. CUSTOM CRAFT CMS DEVELOPMENT AGENCY Using Craft CMS to create a vibrant & professional marketing website. Workshop Digital is a digital marketing agency that builds customized SEO, PPC, and CRO strategies to help businesses grow. MAKING SPEECH-TO-TEXT WORK WITH REACT NATIVE AND EXPO Here are the steps in our voice search: The device asks for permission to use the microphone using Expo’s Permissions API.; Expo’s Audio API is used to record an audio file of the user’s speech.; The audio file is sent to a Google Cloud function, which in turn sends it to the

Google Speech API.

TESTING ELASTICSEARCH AND SIMPLIFYING QUERY BUILDING Recently, I've worked with a client on enhancing search throughout their site. Simple queries in the system could take a couple seconds or more -- searching through fewer than 4000 items! GETTING STARTED WITH GRAPHQL IN LARAVEL As you can notice, the “User” type defined here is a custom type that contains 3 fields (id, name, email). Those fields could be of a scalar type or another custom type. EMAIL TESTING FOR DEVELOPMENT USING MAILCATCHER Over the past four years at Foster Made, I have been afforded many opportunities to work on exciting and custom projects. Each has presented its own set of unique challenges, but all of

JONATHAN COX

What do I do at Foster Made? With a current focus in Symfony and Laravel, Jonathan is an application developer who contributes and draws from nearly a decade of experience in numerous PHP frameworks. CUSTOM CRAFT CMS DEVELOPMENT AGENCY Using Craft CMS to create a vibrant & professional marketing website. Workshop Digital is a digital marketing agency that builds customized SEO, PPC, and CRO strategies to help businesses grow. WHAT TO EXPECT FROM US DURING THE PROCESS 2. Practiced Expertise. Our developers and designers are so talented at what they do. Not only does our team of web professionals have considerable combined development and design experience, everyone also regularly attends conferences and workshops to stay up to date with industry trends, and they take online training courses to expand the breadth of their expertise. HOW WE INCREASED ONE SITE'S MEMBER SIGNUP BY 200% It's easy to underestimate how far a few small tweaks can go to improving your website or application's user experience. In this post, I'll share one example of how a UX audit led to increased user engagement and member signup for one of our clients, The Neurosurgical

Atlas.

JONATHAN COX

What do I do at Foster Made? With a current focus in Symfony and Laravel, Jonathan is an application developer who contributes and draws from nearly a decade of experience in numerous PHP frameworks. HANDCRAFTING CODE IN A NEW WAY To create this display, we repurposed old web development textbooks to show how code underpins the beauty of the web. Outdated textbooks are a reminder that technology is always evolving and building upon itself, and so this display is a physical representation of our work to stay current in an industry that is marked by continual

advancement.

INTRODUCING PHIL BARBATO No one ever awakes in the morning to think, “Today I will become a hero.” For the making of a hero is seldom premeditated, but by some whimsical stroke of the gods his (or her) path is intersected with that which will be either his triumph or his demise. UNDERSTANDING THE ANATOMY OF SEARCH: THE DATA PIPELINE In a recent post we discussed some of the reasons that your organization should invest in search and discovery. In this post we’re going to walk through one of the first steps in a successful site search deployment: pipeline creation. For the sake of this post, we're going to assume that you've already developed some form of personas, user journeys, or use cases for search specifically. INTRODUCING GARRETT ST. JOHN I've had the pleasure of interacting with Garrett St. John on a number of projects over the last few years. In 2017 we brought Garrett into our office in Richmond on contract to complete a round of team interviews, an exercise that was specifically designed to measure the pulse and health of our team, company, and processes. INTRODUCING KIM BARNOSKI I am so excited to introduce Kim Barnoski, UX designer, baker extraordinaire, and one of our newest team members at Foster Made!. Q: Kim, welcome to the team! Let’s start with the basics. Where are you from? A: I’m from Ithaca, a small city in the middle of the Finger Lakes Region of upstate New York where there are a ton of wineries, cideries, and new breweries thanks to the lakefront INTRODUCING LEO CALDAS It's my great honor to introduce our newest team member and front-end developer, Leo (pronounced LEY-o). As I took the opportunity to ask Leo a little bit about himself and his professional background, the song "Wind of Change" by the Scorpions became a recurring theme in our

back-and-forth.

ABOUT | FOSTER MADE

About. We’re glad to be here, working with you. What We Do. We partner with businesses, non-profits, and other agencies to create exceptional digital experiences. Development. We apply our technology experience and knowledge to build smarter, stronger websites and applications. UX Strategy. EXPERTISE | FOSTER MADE We specialize in the end-to-end creation of thoughtfully crafted web experiences, designed and built on leading technology platforms to delight your users and empower your content publishers. We build flexible, intuitive, beautiful, and mobile-ready ecommerce solutions to meet your business needs, connect with your customers, and deliver

results.

CONTACT | FOSTER MADE Foster Made is a top-notch agency, with a customer-centric philosophy that is so refreshing these days. Working with them is very much a collaboration, and I am always impressed with the creative problem solving you do to exceed expectations.

FOSTER MADE

Working With Us We believe digital is far from distant. Our work is both high-tech and personal. We apply our knowledge of complex digital solutions to help real people solve real problems. CUSTOM MOBILE APP DEVELOPMENT COMPANY Powerful, mobile-ready experiences. We offer mobile app development from concept to completion, including prototypes, minimum viable products, new features, optimization, and more. Whether it's a native, hybrid, or progressive web application, we can help you determine what option is best for you and ensure that all aspects of your online THREE ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS TO EFFECTIVE Consistently reminding myself of these three elements gives me the tools that I need to comfortably and competently handle most any conversation I may need to have. Empathy. First, it’s very important that, when speaking with others, you are listening and responding with empathy. Regardless of who you’re talking to and what the

conversation

TESTING ELASTICSEARCH AND SIMPLIFYING QUERY BUILDING Testing. Great, we've made the work of the Javascript Developer slightly simpler. With small query structures, this won't be the most time-saving route, but as queries become more complex, we end up saving quite a bit of logic in the Javascript code. However,

simplifying the

ALGOLIA | FOSTER MADE Technologies. Algolia Engage your users with a modern search and discovery experience that matters. Our team of Algolia certified experts create personalized search experiences that drive user engagement, satisfaction, and conversions. EMAIL TESTING FOR DEVELOPMENT USING MAILCATCHER A step-by-step process for web developers using MailCatcher for email testing. Find out more on our blog. HANDCRAFTING CODE IN A NEW WAY To create this display, we repurposed old web development textbooks to show how code underpins the beauty of the web. Outdated textbooks are a reminder that technology is always evolving and building upon itself, and so this display is a physical representation of our work to stay current in an industry that is marked by continual

advancement.

ABOUT | FOSTER MADE

About. We’re glad to be here, working with you. What We Do. We partner with businesses, non-profits, and other agencies to create exceptional digital experiences. Development. We apply our technology experience and knowledge to build smarter, stronger websites and applications. UX Strategy. EXPERTISE | FOSTER MADE We specialize in the end-to-end creation of thoughtfully crafted web experiences, designed and built on leading technology platforms to delight your users and empower your content publishers. We build flexible, intuitive, beautiful, and mobile-ready ecommerce solutions to meet your business needs, connect with your customers, and deliver

results.

CONTACT | FOSTER MADE Foster Made is a top-notch agency, with a customer-centric philosophy that is so refreshing these days. Working with them is very much a collaboration, and I am always impressed with the creative problem solving you do to exceed expectations.

FOSTER MADE

Working With Us We believe digital is far from distant. Our work is both high-tech and personal. We apply our knowledge of complex digital solutions to help real people solve real problems. CUSTOM MOBILE APP DEVELOPMENT COMPANY Powerful, mobile-ready experiences. We offer mobile app development from concept to completion, including prototypes, minimum viable products, new features, optimization, and more. Whether it's a native, hybrid, or progressive web application, we can help you determine what option is best for you and ensure that all aspects of your online THREE ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS TO EFFECTIVE Consistently reminding myself of these three elements gives me the tools that I need to comfortably and competently handle most any conversation I may need to have. Empathy. First, it’s very important that, when speaking with others, you are listening and responding with empathy. Regardless of who you’re talking to and what the

conversation

TESTING ELASTICSEARCH AND SIMPLIFYING QUERY BUILDING Testing. Great, we've made the work of the Javascript Developer slightly simpler. With small query structures, this won't be the most time-saving route, but as queries become more complex, we end up saving quite a bit of logic in the Javascript code. However,

simplifying the

ALGOLIA | FOSTER MADE Technologies. Algolia Engage your users with a modern search and discovery experience that matters. Our team of Algolia certified experts create personalized search experiences that drive user engagement, satisfaction, and conversions. EMAIL TESTING FOR DEVELOPMENT USING MAILCATCHER A step-by-step process for web developers using MailCatcher for email testing. Find out more on our blog. HANDCRAFTING CODE IN A NEW WAY To create this display, we repurposed old web development textbooks to show how code underpins the beauty of the web. Outdated textbooks are a reminder that technology is always evolving and building upon itself, and so this display is a physical representation of our work to stay current in an industry that is marked by continual

advancement.

CONTACT | FOSTER MADE Foster Made is a top-notch agency, with a customer-centric philosophy that is so refreshing these days. Working with them is very much a collaboration, and I am always impressed with the creative problem solving you do to exceed expectations. WEBSITE DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT AGENCY What We Can Do Beautiful and powerful digital experiences. We design and build intuitive websites that are perfectly suited to your needs. Whether you're managing high-traffic volumes, multi-channel content distribution, or complex marketing initiatives, we deliver solutions that allow you to customize, manage, integrate, and secure even the most demanding of websites. CUSTOM MOBILE APP DEVELOPMENT COMPANY Powerful, mobile-ready experiences. We offer mobile app development from concept to completion, including prototypes, minimum viable products, new features, optimization, and more. Whether it's a native, hybrid, or progressive web application, we can help you determine what option is best for you and ensure that all aspects of your online ALGOLIA | FOSTER MADE Technologies. Algolia Engage your users with a modern search and discovery experience that matters. Our team of Algolia certified experts create personalized search experiences that drive user engagement, satisfaction, and conversions. CUSTOM CRAFT CMS DEVELOPMENT AGENCY Workshop Digital is a digital marketing agency that builds customized SEO, PPC, and CRO strategies to help businesses grow. We redesigned and rebuilt their website, transitioning them from Wordpress to Craft CMS and designing an interface and experience that better represents the brand and connects with their diverse audience. Read the Case

Study.

FOSTER MADE COMPANY VALUES Foster Made Company Values. Summarizing our company culture and what we stand for in 8 values. Since Foster Made’s founding in 2005, we’ve lived and breathed a set of unwritten values. As our team and client roster grew, it became clear that writing these values down and sharing them would help us stay true to our beliefs in all that we do.

NEUROSURGICAL ATLAS

The Neurosurgical Atlas is an online educational resource that contains the most comprehensive digital collection of advanced microneurosurgical techniques curated by Dr. Aaron Cohen-Gadol, Professor of Neurosurgery at Goodman Campbell Brain and Spine.

Services.

SOCIETY FOR CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY The Approach. A UX discovery process to result in data-based strategic recommendations, full website redesign, a transition to Craft CMS, Algolia search implementation, and custom plugin development. HANDCRAFTING CODE IN A NEW WAY To create this display, we repurposed old web development textbooks to show how code underpins the beauty of the web. Outdated textbooks are a reminder that technology is always evolving and building upon itself, and so this display is a physical representation of our work to stay current in an industry that is marked by continual

advancement.

SHAWN MAIDA

Shawn is an established leader in technology with 20 years of professional development experience. Driven by a passion for people and technology, he founded Foster Made in 2005 with the encouragement of his wife, Sara. Since then, he's been on a mission to build a talented, thoughtful and close-knit team of developers and designers

who create

ABOUT | FOSTER MADE

About. We’re glad to be here, working with you. What We Do. We partner with businesses, non-profits, and other agencies to create exceptional digital experiences. Development. We apply our technology experience and knowledge to build smarter, stronger websites and applications. UX Strategy. EXPERTISE | FOSTER MADE We specialize in the end-to-end creation of thoughtfully crafted web experiences, designed and built on leading technology platforms to delight your users and empower your content publishers. We build flexible, intuitive, beautiful, and mobile-ready ecommerce solutions to meet your business needs, connect with your customers, and deliver

results.

CASE STUDIES

The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Helping a nonprofit arts and culture grantmaker foster a vibrant community in Greater Philadelphia. Custom Software. Case Study. McKinnon and Harris. Designing a luxurious digital experience for a high-performance, upscale outdoor furniture company. Websites. Case Study. Workshop Digital. CONTACT | FOSTER MADE Foster Made is a top-notch agency, with a customer-centric philosophy that is so refreshing these days. Working with them is very much a collaboration, and I am always impressed with the creative problem solving you do to exceed expectations. GETTING STARTED WITH GRAPHQL IN LARAVEL Create a new Laravel app. First we begin by creating a Laravel app using the Laravel installer: $ laravel new testapp. Copy. In order to use GraphQL in this project, we will also import the “rebing/graphql-laravel” package via Composer. $ cd testapp $ composer require rebing / graphql - laravel. Copy. TESTING ELASTICSEARCH AND SIMPLIFYING QUERY BUILDINGELASTICSEARCH QUERY SEARCHELASTICSEARCH QUERY SIZEELASTICSEARCH QUERY APIELASTICSEARCH QUERY INDEXELASTICSEARCH QUERY MUSTELASTICSEARCH

QUERY STRING

Testing. Great, we've made the work of the Javascript Developer slightly simpler. With small query structures, this won't be the most time-saving route, but as queries become more complex, we end up saving quite a bit of logic in the Javascript code. However,

simplifying the

ALGOLIA | FOSTER MADE Technologies. Algolia Engage your users with a modern search and discovery experience that matters. Our team of Algolia certified experts create personalized search experiences that drive user engagement, satisfaction, and conversions. EMAIL TESTING FOR DEVELOPMENT USING MAILCATCHER A step-by-step process for web developers using MailCatcher for email testing. Find out more on our blog.

SHAWN MAIDA

Shawn is an established leader in technology with 20 years of professional development experience. Driven by a passion for people and technology, he founded Foster Made in 2005 with the encouragement of his wife, Sara. Since then, he's been on a mission to build a talented, thoughtful and close-knit team of developers and designers

who create

INTRODUCING GARRETT ST. JOHN I've had the pleasure of interacting with Garrett St. John on a number of projects over the last few years. In 2017 we brought Garrett into our office in Richmond on contract to complete a round of team interviews, an exercise that was specifically designed to measure the pulse and health of our team, company, and processes.

ABOUT | FOSTER MADE

About. We’re glad to be here, working with you. What We Do. We partner with businesses, non-profits, and other agencies to create exceptional digital experiences. Development. We apply our technology experience and knowledge to build smarter, stronger websites and applications. UX Strategy. EXPERTISE | FOSTER MADE We specialize in the end-to-end creation of thoughtfully crafted web experiences, designed and built on leading technology platforms to delight your users and empower your content publishers. We build flexible, intuitive, beautiful, and mobile-ready ecommerce solutions to meet your business needs, connect with your customers, and deliver

results.

CASE STUDIES

The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Helping a nonprofit arts and culture grantmaker foster a vibrant community in Greater Philadelphia. Custom Software. Case Study. McKinnon and Harris. Designing a luxurious digital experience for a high-performance, upscale outdoor furniture company. Websites. Case Study. Workshop Digital. CONTACT | FOSTER MADE Foster Made is a top-notch agency, with a customer-centric philosophy that is so refreshing these days. Working with them is very much a collaboration, and I am always impressed with the creative problem solving you do to exceed expectations. GETTING STARTED WITH GRAPHQL IN LARAVEL Create a new Laravel app. First we begin by creating a Laravel app using the Laravel installer: $ laravel new testapp. Copy. In order to use GraphQL in this project, we will also import the “rebing/graphql-laravel” package via Composer. $ cd testapp $ composer require rebing / graphql - laravel. Copy. TESTING ELASTICSEARCH AND SIMPLIFYING QUERY BUILDINGELASTICSEARCH QUERY SEARCHELASTICSEARCH QUERY SIZEELASTICSEARCH QUERY APIELASTICSEARCH QUERY INDEXELASTICSEARCH QUERY MUSTELASTICSEARCH

QUERY STRING

Testing. Great, we've made the work of the Javascript Developer slightly simpler. With small query structures, this won't be the most time-saving route, but as queries become more complex, we end up saving quite a bit of logic in the Javascript code. However,

simplifying the

ALGOLIA | FOSTER MADE Technologies. Algolia Engage your users with a modern search and discovery experience that matters. Our team of Algolia certified experts create personalized search experiences that drive user engagement, satisfaction, and conversions. EMAIL TESTING FOR DEVELOPMENT USING MAILCATCHER A step-by-step process for web developers using MailCatcher for email testing. Find out more on our blog.

SHAWN MAIDA

Shawn is an established leader in technology with 20 years of professional development experience. Driven by a passion for people and technology, he founded Foster Made in 2005 with the encouragement of his wife, Sara. Since then, he's been on a mission to build a talented, thoughtful and close-knit team of developers and designers

who create

INTRODUCING GARRETT ST. JOHN I've had the pleasure of interacting with Garrett St. John on a number of projects over the last few years. In 2017 we brought Garrett into our office in Richmond on contract to complete a round of team interviews, an exercise that was specifically designed to measure the pulse and health of our team, company, and processes. EXPERTISE | FOSTER MADE We specialize in the end-to-end creation of thoughtfully crafted web experiences, designed and built on leading technology platforms to delight your users and empower your content publishers. We build flexible, intuitive, beautiful, and mobile-ready ecommerce solutions to meet your business needs, connect with your customers, and deliver

results.

BLOG | FOSTER MADE

Reflections After a Year. We asked our team some questions to reflect over the past 12 months. Here's what they had to say! By Nina Rogers. #Approach. Our Design Process at a Glance. By Haley Stonecipher. #Company. Laughing our way out of 2020 with gratitude.

APPLY | FOSTER MADE

Upload résumé and any other supporting documents. Documents must be smaller than 10MB. Accepted file types: images, .pdf, .docx, .pages FOSTER MADE'S TECHNOLOGY WORK Our experience includes designing and developing marketing websites with modern, robust capabilities and deep integrations to CRM, commerce, and membership platforms. We’re also experienced at designing and building custom software solutions to solve complex issues and bring products to market. Whatever we’re working on, we

highly value

FOSTER MADE COMPANY VALUES Foster Made Company Values. Summarizing our company culture and what we stand for in 8 values. Since Foster Made’s founding in 2005, we’ve lived and breathed a set of unwritten values. As our team and client roster grew, it became clear that writing these values down and sharing them would help us stay true to our beliefs in all that we do.

SHAWN MAIDA

Shawn is an established leader in technology with 20 years of professional development experience. Driven by a passion for people and technology, he founded Foster Made in 2005 with the encouragement of his wife, Sara. Since then, he's been on a mission to build a talented, thoughtful and close-knit team of developers and designers

who create

A TRADITION OF BEING THANKFUL Shawn Maida: His ability to embrace and welcome change, whether it be small or large. He adapts to feedback and pushes forward with conviction, driving us to be greater. Paul Santos: His jovial persona means that all serious conversations with him leave a sense of purpose and drive, not defeat. Lina Calin: Thank you for your awesome project management skills, your wonderful looking food INTRODUCING PHIL BARBATO Adam Tsai. Introducing Phil Barbato. New team member interview and spotlight. No one ever awakes in the morning to think, “Today I will become a hero.”. For the making of a hero is seldom premeditated, but by some whimsical stroke of the gods his (or her) path is intersected with that which will be either his triumph or his demise.

JILL CONTRERAS

Jill Contreras. Director of Digital Project Management. Professional Bio. Jill quickly discovered her passion for project management after earning a degree in Mass Communications and Public Relations from Virginia Commonwealth University. Since then, her career has included a decade of professional project management experience in fast-paced INTRODUCING CHRISTIAN DIXON I’m really excited to introduce Christian Dixon, our very first UI Designer!I got the chance to catch up with Christian and ask him some getting-to-know-you questions. Q: Let’s start at the beginning, because everyone loves an origin story.

ABOUT | FOSTER MADE

About. We’re glad to be here, working with you. What We Do. We partner with businesses, non-profits, and other agencies to create exceptional digital experiences. Development. We apply our technology experience and knowledge to build smarter, stronger websites and applications. UX Strategy. EXPERTISE | FOSTER MADE We specialize in the end-to-end creation of thoughtfully crafted web experiences, designed and built on leading technology platforms to delight your users and empower your content publishers. We build flexible, intuitive, beautiful, and mobile-ready ecommerce solutions to meet your business needs, connect with your customers, and deliver

results.

CASE STUDIES

The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Helping a nonprofit arts and culture grantmaker foster a vibrant community in Greater Philadelphia. Custom Software. Case Study. McKinnon and Harris. Designing a luxurious digital experience for a high-performance, upscale outdoor furniture company. Websites. Case Study. Workshop Digital. CONTACT | FOSTER MADE Foster Made is a top-notch agency, with a customer-centric philosophy that is so refreshing these days. Working with them is very much a collaboration, and I am always impressed with the creative problem solving you do to exceed expectations. GETTING STARTED WITH GRAPHQL IN LARAVEL Create a new Laravel app. First we begin by creating a Laravel app using the Laravel installer: $ laravel new testapp. Copy. In order to use GraphQL in this project, we will also import the “rebing/graphql-laravel” package via Composer. $ cd testapp $ composer require rebing / graphql - laravel. Copy. TESTING ELASTICSEARCH AND SIMPLIFYING QUERY BUILDINGELASTICSEARCH QUERY SEARCHELASTICSEARCH QUERY SIZEELASTICSEARCH QUERY APIELASTICSEARCH QUERY INDEXELASTICSEARCH QUERY MUSTELASTICSEARCH

QUERY STRING

Testing. Great, we've made the work of the Javascript Developer slightly simpler. With small query structures, this won't be the most time-saving route, but as queries become more complex, we end up saving quite a bit of logic in the Javascript code. However,

simplifying the

ALGOLIA | FOSTER MADE Technologies. Algolia Engage your users with a modern search and discovery experience that matters. Our team of Algolia certified experts create personalized search experiences that drive user engagement, satisfaction, and conversions. EMAIL TESTING FOR DEVELOPMENT USING MAILCATCHER A step-by-step process for web developers using MailCatcher for email testing. Find out more on our blog.

SHAWN MAIDA

Shawn is an established leader in technology with 20 years of professional development experience. Driven by a passion for people and technology, he founded Foster Made in 2005 with the encouragement of his wife, Sara. Since then, he's been on a mission to build a talented, thoughtful and close-knit team of developers and designers

who create

INTRODUCING GARRETT ST. JOHN I've had the pleasure of interacting with Garrett St. John on a number of projects over the last few years. In 2017 we brought Garrett into our office in Richmond on contract to complete a round of team interviews, an exercise that was specifically designed to measure the pulse and health of our team, company, and processes.

ABOUT | FOSTER MADE

About. We’re glad to be here, working with you. What We Do. We partner with businesses, non-profits, and other agencies to create exceptional digital experiences. Development. We apply our technology experience and knowledge to build smarter, stronger websites and applications. UX Strategy. EXPERTISE | FOSTER MADE We specialize in the end-to-end creation of thoughtfully crafted web experiences, designed and built on leading technology platforms to delight your users and empower your content publishers. We build flexible, intuitive, beautiful, and mobile-ready ecommerce solutions to meet your business needs, connect with your customers, and deliver

results.

CASE STUDIES

The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Helping a nonprofit arts and culture grantmaker foster a vibrant community in Greater Philadelphia. Custom Software. Case Study. McKinnon and Harris. Designing a luxurious digital experience for a high-performance, upscale outdoor furniture company. Websites. Case Study. Workshop Digital. CONTACT | FOSTER MADE Foster Made is a top-notch agency, with a customer-centric philosophy that is so refreshing these days. Working with them is very much a collaboration, and I am always impressed with the creative problem solving you do to exceed expectations. GETTING STARTED WITH GRAPHQL IN LARAVEL Create a new Laravel app. First we begin by creating a Laravel app using the Laravel installer: $ laravel new testapp. Copy. In order to use GraphQL in this project, we will also import the “rebing/graphql-laravel” package via Composer. $ cd testapp $ composer require rebing / graphql - laravel. Copy. TESTING ELASTICSEARCH AND SIMPLIFYING QUERY BUILDINGELASTICSEARCH QUERY SEARCHELASTICSEARCH QUERY SIZEELASTICSEARCH QUERY APIELASTICSEARCH QUERY INDEXELASTICSEARCH QUERY MUSTELASTICSEARCH

QUERY STRING

Testing. Great, we've made the work of the Javascript Developer slightly simpler. With small query structures, this won't be the most time-saving route, but as queries become more complex, we end up saving quite a bit of logic in the Javascript code. However,

simplifying the

ALGOLIA | FOSTER MADE Technologies. Algolia Engage your users with a modern search and discovery experience that matters. Our team of Algolia certified experts create personalized search experiences that drive user engagement, satisfaction, and conversions. EMAIL TESTING FOR DEVELOPMENT USING MAILCATCHER A step-by-step process for web developers using MailCatcher for email testing. Find out more on our blog.

SHAWN MAIDA

Shawn is an established leader in technology with 20 years of professional development experience. Driven by a passion for people and technology, he founded Foster Made in 2005 with the encouragement of his wife, Sara. Since then, he's been on a mission to build a talented, thoughtful and close-knit team of developers and designers

who create

INTRODUCING GARRETT ST. JOHN I've had the pleasure of interacting with Garrett St. John on a number of projects over the last few years. In 2017 we brought Garrett into our office in Richmond on contract to complete a round of team interviews, an exercise that was specifically designed to measure the pulse and health of our team, company, and processes. EXPERTISE | FOSTER MADE We specialize in the end-to-end creation of thoughtfully crafted web experiences, designed and built on leading technology platforms to delight your users and empower your content publishers. We build flexible, intuitive, beautiful, and mobile-ready ecommerce solutions to meet your business needs, connect with your customers, and deliver

results.

BLOG | FOSTER MADE

Reflections After a Year. We asked our team some questions to reflect over the past 12 months. Here's what they had to say! By Nina Rogers. #Approach. Our Design Process at a Glance. By Haley Stonecipher. #Company. Laughing our way out of 2020 with gratitude.

APPLY | FOSTER MADE

Upload résumé and any other supporting documents. Documents must be smaller than 10MB. Accepted file types: images, .pdf, .docx, .pages FOSTER MADE'S TECHNOLOGY WORK Our experience includes designing and developing marketing websites with modern, robust capabilities and deep integrations to CRM, commerce, and membership platforms. We’re also experienced at designing and building custom software solutions to solve complex issues and bring products to market. Whatever we’re working on, we

highly value

FOSTER MADE COMPANY VALUES Foster Made Company Values. Summarizing our company culture and what we stand for in 8 values. Since Foster Made’s founding in 2005, we’ve lived and breathed a set of unwritten values. As our team and client roster grew, it became clear that writing these values down and sharing them would help us stay true to our beliefs in all that we do.

SHAWN MAIDA

Shawn is an established leader in technology with 20 years of professional development experience. Driven by a passion for people and technology, he founded Foster Made in 2005 with the encouragement of his wife, Sara. Since then, he's been on a mission to build a talented, thoughtful and close-knit team of developers and designers

who create

A TRADITION OF BEING THANKFUL Shawn Maida: His ability to embrace and welcome change, whether it be small or large. He adapts to feedback and pushes forward with conviction, driving us to be greater. Paul Santos: His jovial persona means that all serious conversations with him leave a sense of purpose and drive, not defeat. Lina Calin: Thank you for your awesome project management skills, your wonderful looking food INTRODUCING PHIL BARBATO Adam Tsai. Introducing Phil Barbato. New team member interview and spotlight. No one ever awakes in the morning to think, “Today I will become a hero.”. For the making of a hero is seldom premeditated, but by some whimsical stroke of the gods his (or her) path is intersected with that which will be either his triumph or his demise.

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Jill Contreras. Director of Digital Project Management. Professional Bio. Jill quickly discovered her passion for project management after earning a degree in Mass Communications and Public Relations from Virginia Commonwealth University. Since then, her career has included a decade of professional project management experience in fast-paced INTRODUCING CHRISTIAN DIXON I’m really excited to introduce Christian Dixon, our very first UI Designer!I got the chance to catch up with Christian and ask him some getting-to-know-you questions. Q: Let’s start at the beginning, because everyone loves an origin story.

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