Gold awarded projects will move on to regional judging and hopefully advance to the national ADDY competition.

Fly Tucson (GOLD)
ILLUME (GOLD)
Ecoblue (SILVER)
Heirloom Farmers Markets (BRONZE)

Winning  means a lot to Creative Slice and we appreciate the hard work that went into each of these projects. Thank you to Tucson Airport Authority, ILLUME Advising, Ecoblue and Heirloom Farmers Markets to choosing Creative Slice to build your award-winning websites. Recognition should also be given to Creative Slice designers and developers Dennis Fesenmyer, Ian Johnson, Jacob Snyder, Alex Parisi, Alan Shimato, Zoe Anderson and John Oksasoglu for attention to detail and inspired design work.

For a complete list of Tucson ADDY winners please visit the AAF Tucson 2017 Awards List.

The Tucson Airport Authority partnered with Creative Slice to develop a new and better experience with a responsive web design that includes custom integrations such as live flight information, live weather updates, a trip calculator, an interactive terminal map, and real-time parking updates—all able to scale in size for any device or screen. The new site at flytucson.com will help keep the public informed about events planned at the airport, art exhibitions and collections, shopping and restaurants, and important airport-related news.

Highlights of the new site:

Responsive design to ensure it is easily accessible across all mobile, tablet and desktop devices. The new flight tracker functionality, accessible on any device, gives users real-time flight arrival and departure information. Parking is also updated in real-time by lot attendants.

Three main navigation sections with resources about commercial air service (TUS), business services (TAA) and private aircraft services (RYN).

A dynamic, interactive terminal map to help passengers find their way and link to information about retail and service options at the airport.

A showcase of Tucson International Airport’s extensive art collection featuring works by artists living in Tucson’s air service trade area.

Compare Travel Costs feature to help travelers while comparison shopping. The calculator offers passengers the ability to calculate overall trip costs and determine if they’re actually saving money by taking flights out of Phoenix’s Sky Harbor International Airport or Tucson International Airport.

Interactive map of leasing opportunities, including office, retail, commercial, industrial, cargo and more. Additional pages with detailed descriptions and contact information for available land and facilities at Tucson International Airport and Ryan Airfield.

Destination pages with useful travel information, live weather updates, links to top attractions, and airlines that offer non-stop service.

News with Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP). Lightweight, fast-loading pages effective for the traveler who needs real-time content while on the move.

Comprehensive FAQ. Answers to common questions regarding getting to and from the airport, checking-in, navigating the terminal, and doing business with the airport.
[Image] stylized screenshot of faqs open on a device

Centralized listing of up-to-date job openings and user-friendly, online employment application process.

Fast, accurate, intelligent search feature to help customers find what they are looking for. Includes popular search terms and an autocomplete option. No matter where you are on the website, you’re never more than a click away from the information that you need.

Notice page and banners for emergencies and important announcements. Notice banners show up prominently on the bottom right of all pages and alerts red, yellow, or green. Banners link to the Notice page where important notifications are explained.

Tucson International Airport prides itself on being a small, friendly airport that is easy to navigate with a real focus on customer service. The new website fulfills the Tucson Airport Authority’s initial objectives, and it’s innovative and interactive elements help provide a more seamless customer experience and richer online content that supports their journey.

The FlyTucson.com website is hosted by our friends at Pagely, who is headquartered here in Tucson.

• Latitude Engineering
• Rob Paulus Architects
• The Loft Cinema 

Winning these awards means a lot to Creative Slice and we appreciate the hard work that went into this event. Thank you.

Scroll down to see our awards and winning websites.

Below you can find a selection of the winners (as voted by the audience of ~40 people) along with the presenters name and a quick screenshot of each website:

Best of Show & Best Admin Functionality:
Pollen presented by Travis Totz

Best Use of WordPress:
My Sassy Notions presented by Pam Varner

Best Visual Design:
Hollywood Bulldogs presented by Nathan Puente

Best Mobile Experience:
Loft Cinema presented by Tim Bowen

Most Successful Site:
Rob Paulus Architects presented by Tim Bowen

• Interactive Project Grid > http://robpaulus.com/projects/
• Project Slideshow > http://robpaulus.com/projects/990-office/
• Our Office (video taken from our section of shared office space) > http://robpaulus.com/about/

2013 Gold ADDY Award Recipients:

• Abbott Media Productions (2)
• Pima Air & Space Museum
• Arizona Daily Star
• BKM Creative Services
• Bolchalk FReY Marketing (3)
• Buffalo Exchange
• Chris Mooney Photography
• Creative Slice (2)
• Crown Chimp Productions
• Dark Horse Media (2)
• DesertLeaf
• Film Creations
• Godat Design Inc.
• Gordley Group
• Hilton & Myers Advertising
• Madden Media
• Metropolitan Tucson Convention & Visitors Bureau
• Motto Productions, Inc.
• Perimeter Bicycling Association of America (3)
• Simply Bits (2)
• Steven Meckler Photographer (5)
• University of Arizona
• University of Arizona Student Affairs Marketing (4)
• UA Office of University Research Parks
• UApresents
• WhiteSpace Design

For a full list of award recipients, and images of the work chosen, visit the AAFTucson website »

Every year the Arizona Daily Star recognizes 40 individuals under the age of 40 who are making significant achievements and contributions to their profession and the Tucson community. This year I was nominated, along with 250 others who are doing great things for this city, and today I’m proud to say I made the list!

Being chosen for this 40 Under 40 award is truly an honor and I’m happy my work with Creative Slice and the design community of Tucson has made a difference.

You can see a full list of this years winners below and check back on October 6th when the 40 Under 40 Man & Woman of the Year will be announced!

• Dan Adler, chief executive officer, Keller Williams Southern Arizona
• Damion Alexander, publisher, Tucson West Publishing, and senior associate, Long Realty Company
• Javier Baca, executive director of information technologies, Sunnyside Unified School District
• Vanessa Bechtol, executive director, Santa Cruz Valley Heritage Alliance
• Veronica Boone, social services director, Tucson Indian Center
• Tim Bowen, owner and creative director, Creative Slice; founder, Spoke6
• Emily Martin Brott, Southern Arizona project manager, Sonoran Institute
• Greg Byrne, athletic director, University of Arizona
• Maya Castillo, library associate, Santa Rosa Branch Library, Pima County Public Library, President, Pima County Chapter, SEIU Local 5 Arizona
• Wendy Cevallos, programs director, Microbusiness Advancement Center
• Demion Clinco, president, Tucson Historic Preservation Foundation; CEO, Frontier Consulting Group; Arizona state adviser, National Trust for Historic Preservation
• Fabian Cordova, chief financial officer, University of Arizona Alumni Association
• Cindy Corona, diabetes prevention director, YMCA of Southern Arizona
• Katie Dabney, principal, Mesquite Elementary School, Vail School District
• Megan Davis, director of marketing and operations, Gadabout SalonSpas
• Danielle Duarte, branch manager, Nesco Resource
• Rebecca Garfunkel, communications and events director, National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) – Southern Arizona
• Tannya R. Gaxiola, president and CEO, QuikHelp
• Brian Alshaun Hairston, software engineer, Raytheon Missile Systems
• Dr. Amy Hauschildt, dentist, General Dentistry 4 Kids
• Lon Huber, governmental affairs representative, Technicians for Sustainability
• Dr. Christina Laukaitis, assistant professor of medicine, University of Arizona
• Dan McGraw, senior vice president and senior market manager for Southern Arizona, Chase Bank
• Kim McNally, principal, Rose Management Group & The Rose Academies
• Abel R. Moreno, co-founder and deputy director, Vets4Vets
• Dan Multhup, vice president and chief operating officer, Metro Restaurants
• Shannon Nash, finance director, Educational Enrichment Foundation
• Isaias Noguez, coordinator of outreach and political Affairs, Consulate of Mexico in Tucson
• David Olsen, owner and publisher, Zocalo Magazine
• Jeannette Ornelas, community relations and promotions manager, Arcos de Oro Inc. (dba McDonald’s)
• Randy Peterson, general manager and development director, KXCI 91.3-FM Community Radio
• Rachel Pross, president and CEO, Tucson Healthcare Affiliates Federal Credit Union
• Matthew W. Randle, board member, Student Veterans of America; student, University of Arizona Rogers College of Law; member, U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords Veteran Advisory Committee; member, U.S. Rep. Raúl Grijalva’s Veteran Advisory Committee
• Carrie L. Rednour, attorney, Rednour Law Offices, PLLC
• Darren Rhodes, director, Yoga Oasis
• Lisa N. Rulney, assistant dean, finance and administration, University of Arizona College of Education
• Erin Strange, violence prevention specialist, University of Arizona
• Maureen “Mimi” Warwick, director of pediatric services, Tucson Medical Center
• Kristine Welter, director of development and marketing, CODAC Behavioral Health Services
• Justin Williams, director, Arizona Technology Council, Tucson Regional Office

Read more about this award at http://azstarnet.com/events/40-under-40/

UPDATE (2012): Events Calendar Pro is out and the community events plugin is on it’s way. To make the below method work with Events Calendar Pro 2.0 or above you’ll need to use this code in your functions file:

add_action('save_post', 'save_tec_event_meta_from_gravity', 11, 2);
    function save_tec_event_meta_from_gravity($postId, $post) {
        if( class_exists('TribeEvents') ) {
            // only continue if it's an event post
            if ( $post->post_type != TribeEvents::POSTTYPE || defined('DOING_AJAX') ) {
                return;
            }
            // don't do anything on autosave or auto-draft either or massupdates
            if ( wp_is_post_autosave( $postId ) || $post->post_status  'auto-draft' || isset($_GET['bulk_edit']) || $_REQUEST['action']  'inline-save' ) {
                return;
            }
            if( class_exists('TribeEventsAPI') ) {
                TribeEventsAPI::saveEventMeta($postId, $_POST, $post);
            }
        }
    }

This tutorial demonstrates how to use Gravity Forms to submit events to Events Calendar Pro from the public facing side of a WordPress theme.

First you’ll need the Gravity Forms plugin and the Events Calendar Pro plugin installed. These are both premium plugins and well worth the price. You should also install the Gravity Forms + Custom Post Types plugin to connect Gravity Forms submissions with Events.

Now that you have the above 3 plugins installed you should create a new Form.

1. In the admin panel click on Forms > New Form
2. Title this form and under Form Settings > Advanced change the button text to something like “Submit Event”
3. Use the Post Fields panel to add Title and Body fields to the form.
   
4. Under the Title field you have created go to Advanced and check the “Save As Custom Post Type” box (this was added by the Gravity Forms + Custom Post Types plugin) and choose Events from the drop-down list.
5. Use the Advanced Fields panel to add 1 Date and 2 Time fields (for start and end time)
   
   It’s important to create the fields in this order to match the functions we will be adding later in this tutorial. The Date should be the 3rd field, the Start Time the 4th field and the End Time the 5th field.

Your form should now look like this:

Now you can add extra fields to be used by Events Calendar Pro. Available fields:
_EventVenue, _EventPhone, _EventAllDay, _EventCost, _EventAddress, _EventCity, _EventZip, _EventState (use format like AZ), _EventCountry (use format like United States), _EventOrganizerID, _EventVenueID, _EventAllDay, _EventStartDate, _EventEndDate, _EventShowMapLink, _EventShowMap

The Venue Custom Post type uses: _VenueVenue, _VenueCountry, _VenueAddress, _VenueCity, _VenueStateProvince, _VenueZip, _VenuePhone

The Organizer Custom Post type uses: _OrganizerOrganizer, _OrganizerEmail, _OrganizerWebsite, _OrganizerPhone

For example here is how you would add an Event Venue to the form:

• Under the Post Fields panel choose Custom Field
• Edit this custom field and label it something like Event Venue
• Under “Custom Field Name” choose New and enter _EventVenue
  
• You can add more custom fields as needed

You should now save the form and go to Forms > Edit Forms to see a list of the Gravity Forms you’ve created. Be sure to note the Id of this Submit Event form. If this is the first form you’ve created the Id will be “1”.

Next you need to add some code to the functions.php for of the active theme. (Special thanks to Sam DeVore for this code!)

// Format Date from gravity forms to events plugin
add_action("gform_pre_submission", "format_event_date");

function format_event_date($form){
    $formId = 1;  // this is the gravity forms id
    $dateFormId = 3; // this is the form element that contains the date  of the form 'mm/dd/yyyy'  $_POST['input_3']
    $startTimeFormId = 4; // form element for the start time  $_POST['input_4'][0] - for hour, $_POST['input_4'][1] - for minute, $_POST['input_4'][2] - for meridian
    $endTimeFormId = 5; // form element for the start time  $_POST['input_5'][0] - for hour, $_POST['input_5'][1] - for minute, $_POST['input_5'][2] - for meridian

    if($form["id"] != $formId){
        return;
    }
    $date = date_parse($_POST['input_'. $dateFormId]); // break the date into an array

    // sql format the result
    $dateString = $date['year'] . '-' . str_pad($date['month'], 2, "0", STR_PAD_LEFT) . '-' . str_pad($date['day'], 2, "0", STR_PAD_LEFT);

    // get the start/end times
    $startTime = $_POST['input_'. $startTimeFormId];
    $endTime = $_POST['input_'. $endTimeFormId];

    // load the values for EventsCalendarPro
    $_POST['EventStartDate'] = $dateString;
    $_POST['EventStartHour'] = str_pad($startTime[0], 2, "0", STR_PAD_LEFT);
    $_POST['EventStartMinute'] = str_pad($startTime[1], 2, "0", STR_PAD_LEFT);
    $_POST['EventStartMeridian'] = $startTime[2];

    $_POST['EventEndDate'] = $dateString;
    $_POST['EventEndHour'] = str_pad($endTime[0], 2, "0", STR_PAD_LEFT);
    $_POST['EventEndMinute'] = str_pad($endTime[1], 2, "0", STR_PAD_LEFT);
    $_POST['EventEndMeridian'] = $endTime[2];
 }

Important Notes:

1. Make sure to put the above function code inside php tags.
2. $formId = 1 needs to match your forms Id #
3. $dateFormId = 3 needs to match the Date form ID. It will be 3 if you followed the instructions above. Alternatively you may need to find this by Viewing Source on the form page.
4. $startTimeFormId = 4 needs to match the Start Time form ID.
5. $endTimeFormId = 5 needs to match the End Time form ID.

The last step is to add this new Gravity Form to the page where you’d like visitors to submit events. By default events will be submitted as Drafts and may be approved and edited by an admin.

Visitors to your site may now submit events which will be added to Events Calendar Pro and may be easily published to your Calendar.

How to add an image to a slideshow:

1. Go to the Page which controls this slideshow (often the Home page) and choose edit
2. Use the Upload/Insert image icon above the menu bar to open the image browser.
3. Select files from your computer and upload them using the simple WordPress interface.
4. If your slideshow uses a Title under the image be sure to add this title in the Title field.
5. If your slideshow images link to other pages on the site, you should paste this link in the Alternative Text field.

How to edit slideshow images:

1. Go to the Page which controls this slideshow (often the Home page) and choose edit
2. Use the Upload/Insert image icon above the menu bar to open the image browser.
3. Click the Gallery tab to see all images which are attached to this page. You can drag them up and down to change the order.
4. To edit the Title or Alternative Text of an image click the Show link next to the image you’d like to edit.
5. Be sure to click the Save all changes button once you are finished and Update your page to save your updates.