Robbie Thayer Website Design

I comped up a website design in Adobe XD for my friend Robbie, who does solo singer/songwriter coffee shop-style shows from time to time. This site has not been built out. This is just a design comp.

The Bottom Dwellers Website

The Bottom Dwellers are an Americana band, based in Yolo county. They have been playing around Northern California since 2003—mostly smaller venues, private events, and the occasional opening slot for a touring acts like the late Billy Joe Shaver, and Dale Watson. Full disclosure: I am a member of this band.

The West Nile Ramblers Website

The West Nile Ramblers are an Americana band from Davis California, led by Alex Roth. The band has been a local favorite with UC Davis students going on two decades. They have been supporting act for The Devil Makes Three and regularly sell out local venues.

Nugget Markets E‑Ad Builder

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Nugget Markets Website

I finally got around to a complete rebuild of the Nugget Markets website. My previous build launched in 2008 and was a freelance project. I have since been hired by the company as a full time web developer in their marketing department. I have been champin’ at the bit to rebuild this website for years!

Lindsey Buckingham

Lindsey Buckingham is best known as the lead guitarist and vocalist of Fleetwood Mac. He also has a healthy collection of solo albums under his belt. Now he’s partnering up with ground(ctrl) to help manage some of his web presence.

Andy Lentz

Andy and I first met in The West Nile Ramblers. With a background in classical violin, bluegrass, and country, Andy adds depth and fire to any ensemble. He has performed and recorded with many artists including The Devil Makes Three, Rita Hosking, The West Nile Ramblers, The Brothers Comatose, and Nicki Bluhm. After many years of performing in California, Andy relocated to Austin, Texas in 2011 and began playing with Silas Lowe, The Sieker Band, Cornell Hurd and many others.

Whitechapel

Whitechapel is a deathcore band from Knoxville. We love partnering with young, aggressive hard-working bands. Those of us in the ground(ctrl) dev cave are pretty hardcore Whitechapel fans to begin with, so we were all pretty excited to work on this one.

Lindsey Buckingham Temp Site

Lindsey Buckingham is best known as the lead guitarist and vocalist of Fleetwood Mac. He also has a healthy collection of solo albums under his belt. Now he’s partnering up with ground(ctrl) to help manage some of his web presence.

Imagination Movers

The Imagination Movers are a group of guys from New Orleans inspired to create their own children’s show. It became a local hit and the Movers were eventually picked up by Disney. The band has a pretty deep catalog of material and tours pretty extensively.

Their management hired ground(ctrl) to design and build their new website, and we ended up tacking on a few extras features to make management a little easier for them.

Hot Club of San Franciso

The Hot Club of San Francisco continues the tradition of fine French Gypsy Jazz performed on string instruments. And the same familiar faces and tunes that you’ve come to know in our 11+ years.

Pleasant Valley Boys Temporary Home Page

I’m in the process of building a website for my Bluegrass band, Matt & George and their Pleasant Valley Boys. I set up the server last night and whipped together a minimalist temporary page.

ground(ctrl) Website

Credits

Greg Patterson handled the design, I built a custom CMS and handled the entire front-end build.

Perfecto Records Website

Credits

The Perfecto Records website is a ground(ctrl) project, but is a custom solution not powered by the ground(ctrl) system. Scott Pargett designed this one with some help from Greg Patterson. I built a custom content management system for this one and handled the entire front end build as well. Michael Holz is the project manager on this one.

Papa Roach Website

Papa Roach is a four-piece rock band from Vacaville, CA. Papa Roach has been a long time client of BKWLD and now ground(ctrl). They were one of our beta testers on the version 1 system and played a big part in us getting our big platform off the ground.

Papa Roach’s new album, Metamorphosis is available now on Interscope and has officially made the Billboard Top 10 in the US.

Backstreet Boys Fanclub

The Backstreet boys are a pop band that had huge popularity in the mid 90's. They recently decided to get the band back together and start touring and recording agin. The needed a new online fanclub, so naturally they called ground(ctrl).

Paul Oakenfold Website

Credits

I think Vicki Lo may have handled design on this one. I’ll have to check. Justin Jones was the initial developer who handled the majority of the XHTML and CSS. I have since taken over the project and have implemented new features and page customizations, including the discography and audio player. This site is hosted on the ground(ctrl) platform built and maintained by Robert Reinhard, Brent Scheffler, and myself.

Features

As with all ground(ctrl) powered sites, this system is a fully featured social network that promotes communication between fans and artists. Visitors can befriend one another as well as communicate with the band via a public commenting system, private messaging, and forums. The site is also a full featured website that allows the artists and their management team to blog, post news articles, photos, video, tour dates, host contests and run grass roots street team promotions. There is also a store where visitors can purchase tickets, digital downloads, and merchandise.

Kobe Bryant Fanclub

Kobe Bryant is an NBA superstar that plays for the Los Angeles Lakers. He was voted MVP for 2007-08 season. Kobe’s management team called ground(ctrl) to set up a website that would provide a more personal means to connect to his fans.

Far Website

Credits

Design on this one was shared by Scott Pargett and Greg Patterson. This site is hosted on the ground(ctrl) platform built and maintained by Robert Reinhard, Brent Scheffler, and myself. I handled the the usual XHTML and CSS.

Features

As with all ground(ctrl) powered sites, this system is a fully featured social network that promotes communication between fans and artists. Visitors can befriend one another as well as communicate with the band via a public commenting system, private messaging, and forums. The site is also a full featured website that allows the artists and their management team to blog, post news articles, photos, video, tour dates, host contests and run grass roots street team promotions. There is also a store where visitors can purchase tickets, digital downloads, and merchandise.

Kelty Website

Kelty has been a well know and well respected maker of durable gear among the hardcore outdoor enthusiasts since 1952. They also make great products for us hardcore outdoor enthusiasts who like to bring our kids along for the ride.

2K Sports Website

2K Sports is a subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. They specialize in sports games, high-profile licensing, and killer promotional events.

Bottom Dwellers Website

The Bottom Dwellers are an alt-country/classic honky tonk band I play doghouse bass for. We play all around Northern California and sell some CDs. This website helps us do those things pretty efficiently. 

Suretone Records Website

Suretone Records is an independent record label in Santa Monica California.  There catalog includes titles by Chris Cornel, The Cure, Shwayze, The Pink Spiders, and more.  The website provides tour dates, press materials and of detailed information on artists and their releases on the label.

Nugget Markets Website

Nugget Market Inc. is a family owned, full-service grocery store founded in 1926 in Woodland, CA. They currently have nine locations in the greater Sacramento area, and have made FORTUNE Magazine's Top 100 Best Companies To Work For.  I made their website.