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Jul 10 2012

More on the Center for Investigative Reporting

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Published by Lydia Toupin

The Aten team recently completed a redesign project for cironline.org. Our CEO, Justin Toupin, wrote about the launch a few months back. CIR, the Center for Investigative Reporting, is a nonprofit organization devoted to in-depth reporting, often covering issues of injustice and abuse of power taking place around the world.

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Jun 7 2012

Roosevelt Institute's Fully Operational ND2.0

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Published by Lydia Toupin

This week, eight weeks after we completed Roosevelt Institute’s ND2.0 project, the redesigned blog is brimming with current posts and activity. ND2.0, or Next New Deal, is a blog fostered by supporters of the Roosevelt legacy and acts as a community think tank for progressive leaders and communicators endeavoring to restore America to economic and social balance.

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May 31 2012

Communicating Transitional Justice

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Published by Lydia Toupin

I’ve been back on the Aten team for two months now, catching up on recent work and initiatives. To help with this, I started going through client projects we’ve completed in the last year. Several jumped out at me, but perhaps none more than site redesign ICTJ.org which launched last spring.

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Jun 25 2009

Building websites for content

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Published by Eric Toupin

We take a content-first approach to building websites. That means that one of the first things we'll do in a project is ask you for all the content you plan on publishing to the web. Here are a few reasons why.

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Apr 21 2008

What It Is, Not What It Looks Like

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Published by Justin Toupin

Website owners and managers need a simple way to edit the text within their websites. They need to add headings, make bold text, bulleted lists, and so forth. It's a fundamental need in Content Management implementations, and perhaps the most used feature of any CMS.

In spite of this, the solutions widely available today are horrible.

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