New Team Member: Erin DeGroote
Erin wrote their first line of code at the precocious age of 7, so it’s fair to say one way or another, computers have always been a part of Erin’s life.
What We Do
Featured Projects
BC Dairy Association
The BC Dairy Association is champion, steward, and advocate for the people of British Columbia's dairy industry. Hop Studios is their Web development maintenance partner.
Services Provided
Cross-site content submissions into a single database. Page optimization leading to a 72% speed increase in page load time.
City of Cranbrook
Cranbrook, BC, as the regional hub of the Kootenays, provides a unique lifestyle and is rightfully touted as the best place to call home.
Services Provided
Website reskin; EE upgrade; Ongoing maintenance
Linea
Linea Inc. is a high-end modern furniture store in Los Angeles, carrying contemporary European brands. Hop began working with Linea in July 2019, with the goals of upgrading their content management system, and updating the site to be responsive and mobile-friendly.
Services Provided
ExpressionEngine upgrade; Responsive/mobile-friendly; Small but useful site improvements
Greater Good Magazine
For nearly a decade, the Greater Good Science Center and its magazine have covered the science of a meaningful life.
Services Provided
Site redesign; Site architecture overhaul; Accessibility support
Greater Good Science Center
For nearly a decade, the Greater Good Science Center and its magazine have covered the science of a meaningful life.
Services Provided
Site design; Site architecture overhaul; Accessibility support
Haven
HAVEN is a nationally recognized nonprofit leader that provides programs to promote violence-free homes and communities and helps victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.
Services Provided
Ongoing maintenance and new projects
PortaLaw
PortaLaw serves businesses, nonprofits, law firms and individual employees.
Services Provided
Website design; Squarespace setup and design; Scheduling software; Social media assets
Substantial Motion Research Network
The Substantial Motion Research Network is an international research network for scholars and practitioners interested in cross-cultural exploration of digital media and philosophy.
Services Provided
Entirely new website with extensive membership features
Adolescent Development Lab at UCLA
The Adolescent Development Lab at UCLA exists to generate knowledge about the development about youth from diverse ethnic and immigrant backgrounds.
Services Provided
Website redesign; Migration from Drupal to Craft
This Mountain Life
This Mountain Life is a riveting examination of human passion set high in the peaks of British Columbia.
Services Provided
New website, including shop
Ascent Employment Law
Ascent Employment Law believes the needs of you and your workplace are not cookie-cutter, and that your legal solutions shouldn’t be either. Hop Studios worked with Ascent to launch their website in tandem with the opening of their new practice.
Services Provided
Squarespace website setup and design; Squarespace Scheduling; Ecommerce portal skin
Center for the Developing Adolescent
The Center for the Developing Adolescent champions science-based, equity-driven innovations that positively impact the lives and futures of all young people.
Services Provided
Site redesign and revamped site architecture; better tools for editors; WCAG accessibility
Gawain Weaver
Gawain Weaver provides conservation treatment and consulting services, as well as workshops and materials.
Services Provided
EE Upgrade; Mobile/Responsive; SSL; Update image gallery; Site speed optimization; Workshops page rework
Peg Leg Films
Peg Leg Films is a tiny production company that makes socially conscious films to inspire big personal action.
Services Provided
Squarespace site setup and customization
YVR Local Delivery
In the face of COVID-19, we all found ourselves changing how we source essential goods and services. Hop Studios responded by creating YVR Local Delivery to highlight businesses delivering or offering services tailored to the stay-at-home period.
Services Provided
Thought it up and built it!
Santa Barbara Athletic Round Table
For more than forty years the Santa Barbara Athletic Round Table has supported student athletes in the greater Santa Barbara area through financial grants, recognition, and scholarships.
Services Provided
WordPress theme update; Mobile-friendly; WooCommerce installation and configuration
Eye Carumba
Eye Carumba is an optometry office located in San Francisco, whose focus (groan) is to provide excellent, personalized service.
Services Provided
Website redesign; Site converted from flat files to a content management system
SFAI
Founded in 1871, San Francisco Art Institute is one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious schools of higher education in contemporary art.
Services Provided
CMS upgrade; CMS optimization; Blog migration
Featured Software
Hop DocuSign
Hop DocuSign is an extension to enable a seamless DocuSign signing experience for your customers. Currently we only support Freeform form submissions but we’re planning to add support to other form services! Drop us a note if you’d like us to add support to your plugins at tech@hopstudios.com.
Check out our demo site! https://hopdocusign.hopstudios.com
Hop Inject
We developed Hop Inject to solve a very common but tricky problem: We wanted to place an advertisement after the third paragraph on a page. But, since this is EE we’re talking about, of course the third paragraph was in an entry custom field, and it was hard to add at run time. In addition, we thought, what if we wanted to add a photo after the fourth paragraph? Or another advertisement after the tenth paragraph? Or a pull quote after…
Mountee
Use Your Favourite Tools
Why be limited to creating templates in ExpressionEngine's <textarea>? Mountee allows you to access your templates as Mac Finder files, so you can work uninterrupted in your favorite coding app.
Work With Files & Folders
Creating a new template or template group is as easy as creating a new file or folder. Develop your own set of re-usable templates and groups, then simply drag them into your Mountee drive to…
Hop 404 Reporter
Hop 404 Reporter will alert you to 404 errors happening on your website—which will help your site look good in search engines and satisfy your site visitors.
This ExpressionEngine module logs each time a website visitor encounters a 404 error page, recording what URL the website visitor came from, and what page they were trying to get to. As well as creating a file log, the module allows you to receive email notifications of 404 errors,…
Hop Super Pulldown
Standard pulldown menus make it easy to re-use common data without a mistake, and to help you choose from pre-determined options. But wouldn’t it be nice if you could also add to the menu without having to go off into the administrative sections of EE? With Hop Super Pulldown, you can!
Super Pulldowns function the same as a standard EE selection menu, but you can also choose to add a brand new option within the entry editing screen. And…
Hop Social Suite
Instagram, Facebook and Twitter offer embeddable Javascript widgets you can use to display posts and tweets on your own website. These are hard to style, and sometimes you want to display both in the same space. For that, you need Hop Social Suite.
Once it’s set up, this add-on displays a simple list of social posts as an unordered list that’s easy to style using CSS.
Hop PrivatEEr
Avast, ye landlubbers! Make yer website talk like a pirate, on Sept. 19 (Talk Like a Pirate Day!) or on any day of the yearrrrr…
Hop PrivatEEr has two parts: a plugin that will translate a small block of text directly, and an extension that has the power to modify every page of your website at once.
You can change the settings of the extension to be active ‘Always,’ ‘Never,’ or ‘On Pirate Day,’ which occurs annually on September 19.…
Hop PushEE
Say it with browser notifications!
(They aren’t as sexy as roses, but they may be more effective.)
Hop PushEE is perfect for publishers, stores, service providers, and anyone else with an announcement to make. It’s perfect for those who want to nudge previous website visitors with the latest breaking news or a special offer.
For a working demo of this add-on, visit https://push.hopstudios.com/.
Hop PushEE helps you to create and…
Hop Minifizer
Hop Minifizer takes your site’s CSS, Javascript and even SCSS files, and it combines them, compresses them, saves them as disk files locally (or even on Amazon S3), so that your site loads and displays far more quickly, but your development process is still modular and easy to manage. This add-on is based on Minimee, by John D. Wells, and adds additional functionality.
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