• AGSSI Live with CB&F!

    The Accommodations Group of Salt Spring Island has recently debuted a revised site, completely renovated by Charles Buchwald & Friends. The challenge was to retain the successful look and feel of the established site and coordinate with print materials for a more consistent marketing identity, while updating the site engine, adding new features and functionality,…

  • Our Goal: Your Meaningful Growth

    Here at Charles Buchwald & Friends we keep focused on one goal: your meaningful growth. We’ll help you and your business, organization or community achieve that through bigger margins, a better triple bottom line, or renewed clarity and focus… however you define meaning and success. Whether yours is a small solopreneurship, a charity, or an established…

  • Wild-Being.com Live with CB&F!

    Frank Burnaby’s Wild-Being.com blog is now live, courtesy of development assistance from Charles Buchwald & Friends. Frank has a unique take on some deep ideas, including insights into education, health, and our relationship with our environment. He’s sure to make you think. Check out the new posts and leave a comment if you find something…

  • Waterfront Saltspring: Live with CB&F!

    The challenge: get additional market exposure for an outstanding waterfront acreage and house for sale on Saltspring Island. The solution: build a clean and simple, optimized site using the WordPress CMS. Highlight the best features of the unique location, the exceptional natural values of the property, and the benefits of the house, dock and boathouse…

  • Cedar Beach Resort: Live with CB&F

    Cedar Beach Resort, one of the largest resorts on Salt Spring, has gone live with Charles Buchwald & Friends. The newly revised site is a major upgrade and expansion of their former site, incorporating new photo galleries, interactive maps, contact forms, a revised and updated logo, online reservations, and a state-of-the-art Content Management System (CMS)…

  • Full Moon Sail

    Friends went on an evening trip to see the full moon, and took me along. Here’s a quick VR movie from the sail… FullMoonSailVR (Quicktime required. Click and drag to pan; shift or control to zoom.) … and a simple, flat panoramic photo of the same thing.

  • Web Hosting Giveaway, July

    Charles Buchwald & Friends is providing 3 free web hosting accounts for Salt Spring community groups or charities in the month of July. Just like our business customers, groups can host their website with Charles Buchwald & Friends for a year, including web pages, email, mailing lists, file transfer, and more. Hosting is fast, very secure,…

  • Save Our Surgery

    CB&F has donated hosting to Save Our Surgery, a local Saltspring group working to affect change in policies governing use of the local Lady Minto Hospital. According to the group: In 2004, a new “state of the art” operating room was completed at Lady Minto Hospital, together with an excellent Central Supply Room to provide…

  • Illustration for Monimos

    We were rather excited to complete this recent project for Monimos in Victoria, BC, a developer with a “mission to foster strong community relationships in order to provide future sustainable growth and development”. This 3D rendering of a building project in Sooke was completed expediently, thanks to Google SketchUp and a 3Dconnexion Space Navigator controller……

  • Greenway Partners

    Sometimes Facebook can actually be useful and productive. A case in point: I recently reconnected with a friend from Northfield High School. David Narum is a partner with Greenway Partners in Arcata, California, promoting and using regenerative design to go “beyond sustainability”. It’s great to find like-minded people working to reconnect people and the planet.