Cultural

• Palace of Fine Arts

Food

• Blue (try the pot pie and mac & cheese)
• 2223 Market
• Tartine’s (ham and cheese sandwich “like sex”)

Misc. Places/Sights

• Ferry Building
• Garden Court inside Palace Hotel
• under the dome at City Hall

Driving / Day Trips

• 49 mile drive

Thrift Stores

• Thrift Town (in the Mission)
• Out of the Closet
  

Unfortunately WordPress doesn’t come with such a function out-of-the-box; after much searching and head-scratching, I figured it out:

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Ultimately it’s very simple – the PHP in the above snippet displays the post id of the next post (which is, duh, the current_post + 1). This PHP is inserted into an inline link within the WordPress Loop and viola! The link created jumps to the next one on the page.

I added a little more logic to the page – the last item on the page doesn’t need a link like this, so for that one I created a link back to the top of the page.

Hope this helps anyone searching for a similar solution!

The Minnesota Orchestra’s Building for the Future campaign was designed to provide information and raise $100 million for building renovation, education and artistic initiatives. Working with feedback from Orchestra management, PR and Development, I developed a website that spoke to both the general public and potential donors, and provided ample room to grow as the project progressed.

The Minnesota Orchestra’s new “Crash the Ball” fundraiser party for young professionals required a fresh look and a social media-savvy approach. I used a 1930’s newspaper theme with modern-day touches including links to the event’s Facebook page, Twitter stream and other social media tools.

I developed this microsite by building a custom user interface and adding web-appropriate style to the great creative produced by Minnesota Orchestra’s in-house design team. We saved time and resources by pulling event information and media content directly from the Orchestra’s website’s existing database, while other content was created specifically to enhance the online experience.

This microsite for the Minnesota Orchestra’s Inside the Classics series provides both a high-level overview and detailed information about the events in the series. It includes rich online-only content including the Orchestra’s popular classical music blog and multimedia content like audio samples and interviews with the presenters.

Visitors to the Loring Park Art Festival website needed quick and easy access to information about the festival including transportation, food & entertainment, volunteers, advertising and more. I built a database-driven back-end for the artists listings, so that the information could be easily updated and displayed in different useful formats, such as artist’s medium and location at the festival.

A website that promotes music in film demands a multimedia experience. Musical excerpts, video footage of the films and interviews with principal musicians and the conductor were put front and center on this microsite. Design elements and content were assembled from a variety of sources to form a cohesive online presence for this three-week festival.

As a gay & lesbian mental health and addiction care center, Pride Institute needed a website that delicately addressed sensitive issues for many different audiences: people needing quick access to admissions information, as well as family members and mental health professionals that required more detailed information. I created a new site that struck a balance: between overview and details, between education and marketing; and between the negative aspects of addiction and the positives of recovery that Pride Institute’s services offer.