Culture Foundry

In short

Culture Foundry is headquartered on North 34th Street in Seattle, with staff also in Portland, Boulder, Austin and Sarasota, and it covers the whole life of a site: design and UX, custom development on WordPress, Drupal and Django, then managed hosting with round-the-clock monitoring. The hosting and support contract is what sets it apart from most design shops on this list. It is #7 on our Seattle list.

For the New York Racing Association it brought four properties, Aqueduct, Belmont Park, Saratoga and the Belmont Stakes, under one NYRA.com domain with shared navigation for seats, handicapping and betting, built on MODX, Python and Django and watched closely on race days. For the LBJ Presidential Library it worked with Freelock Computing on Drupal search for DiscoverLBJ, which opens tens of millions of documents. 24 Hour Fitness got its WordPress site, app updates and the 24Life magazine.

Archives, libraries, associations and venue operators running large, data-heavy sites that cannot go down on their busiest day get the most from a team that designs, builds and hosts. The American Library Association and NCWIT are both on its client list. A consumer brand looking for packaging, a new identity or campaign creative should hire a branding agency, since Culture Foundry's craft is the website and the infrastructure under it.