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A letter to designers

Posted by · December 19

TAGGED Strategy Design

The shocking events of 2016 have made one thing clear: we are now living in a new era. An era in which the most dramatic changes and ideological battles in generations are being fought on the internet, in real-time. The op... Continue reading

How agencies and NationBuilder find harmony

Posted by · October 19

TAGGED Design API

Over the years, we at NationBuilder have had the privilege of working with some of the most creative and talented companies on the planet. Our partners frequently shape a messy spreadsheet of goals into gorgeous, digital d... Continue reading

Debriefing the Learn to Code LA event at NationBuilder HQ

Posted by · September 21

TAGGED Design API

It can be difficult for aspiring developers to know where to start in their education - front, back or full-stack, which language, what to build, etc. Even more difficult is knowing where to apply this education as a care... Continue reading

Resources brought to you by NationBuilder certified partners

Posted by · September 15

Earlier this week we started wrangling all of the documentation and resources for our certified partner network into a single corral (liking these ranch puns yet?). A new page for these resources is coming soon. However, ... Continue reading

Staged donation form now available for Bootstrap themes

Posted by · August 25

There was a lot of excitement when we first introduced a staged donation kit for the Aware theme and baked it into the public themes that followed. This created a more elegant experience for donors and resulted in higher... Continue reading

Debriefing the first design community meetup at NationBuilder HQ

Posted by · July 25

Back on July 13th, NationBuilder hosted the 2nd-ever Sketch LA event- the official Sketch meetup group for Los Angeles. Sketch is an immensely popular tool among designers of all sorts but the community around it, specifi... Continue reading

The importance of partner reviews

Posted by · July 11

TAGGED Design API

The regular cruisers of NationBuilder.com may have noticed we recently consolidated our partner directories into a single space. With a growing ecosystem of amazing freelancers, studios and agencies, it was becoming increa... Continue reading

Adding a fixed control panel nav menu to your custom theme

Posted by · July 06

Navigation menus. The steering wheel and Thomas Guide (do those still exist?) of websites. It can be quite a task to get them right - especially when providing control panel users with an intuitive menu of items. A month o... Continue reading

New political variations of Verve and Publish themes

Posted by · June 27

TAGGED Win your election Design

It's not uncommon for us to receive requests around specific design tweaks to a given public theme. Often times these tweaks are relative to a customer's industry - colors that convey a more serious tone, for example. Bas... Continue reading

Promote themes for sale on Blueprints

Posted by · June 09

There's no doubt that designing and building a custom, world-class theme on NationBuilder can often be expensive. However, not every customer needs nor can afford a tailor-made solution. They might also want a design or la... Continue reading

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