Heading to my universe...David Langarica © 2026
A full WordPress redesign for a crypto nonprofit, built around clarity, technical credibility, and long-term maintainability.
Zcash Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit supporting privacy-focused financial infrastructure and public-good cryptography. The organization already had an established brand and website, but needed a redesign that felt more modern, technical, expressive, and easier for its team to maintain. The final site was rebuilt in WordPress and Elementor to preserve their internal workflow while improving structure, usability, visual consistency, and content management.
Zcash Foundation did not need a simple visual refresh. The project had to modernize an existing nonprofit website while respecting an established brand, supporting a technical audience, and keeping the site manageable for the internal team after launch.
The work focused on turning a large public-facing site into a clearer, darker, and more structured digital hub for the Foundation’s research, events, governance, community updates, and privacy-focused technologies.
The Foundation already had a clear brand foundation, so the goal was not to reinvent its identity. The redesign extended its existing color palette into a more animated, modern, and technically expressive system.
Every visual decision had to feel connected to Zcash rather than decorative or generic.
One of the biggest shifts was moving the site from a mostly light interface to a dark visual system.
This helped the website feel closer to the visual language of developer tools, code editors, terminals, and technical environments while giving the Foundation a stronger and more distinctive presence.
The visual language also introduced custom assets connected to the Foundation’s work, including cryptographic references such as the elliptic curve in the hero, code fragments, technical lines, and imagery related to Zcash, Zebra, and FROST.
The site needed to support developers, researchers, community members, donors, event attendees, and the broader public.
That meant the information architecture had to make the Foundation’s work easier to understand without flattening the complexity of the organization.
The redesign included the homepage, about, team, events hub, Zcon conference pages, Dev Summit pages, Zcon Voices, Arborist Calls, blog, grants, governance, technology pages, and supporting templates.
Each page type was designed around its own content needs while staying aligned with the broader system.
A key constraint was that the site needed to stay in WordPress and Elementor.
Instead of treating that as a limitation, the build was structured around the Foundation’s real operational needs: the team had to create events, update speakers, add team members, upload documents, and reuse page sections without depending on a developer for every content change.
The blog was one of the clearest content challenges.
The existing site contained more than 300 posts, but browsing them felt closer to scanning a long archive than using a structured publication system.
The redesign introduced clearer categories, search, and browsing patterns so visitors could find older and newer content with less friction.
Development was reviewed through a staging environment before launch, which allowed the Foundation to validate pages, interactions, and content before replacing the live site.
Once the staging version was approved, the final migration was completed during a low-traffic window with only a short period of downtime.
The handoff also included onboarding for the parts most likely to need future updates, including new documents, transparency content on the homepage, events, speakers, team members, and reusable page components.
This project reinforced that a strong redesign is not only about changing how a website looks.
It is about understanding how the organization works, what its audience needs, and how the system will continue evolving after launch.
For Zcash Foundation, the final result was a more technical, expressive, and maintainable website that could support a large ecosystem of content without forcing the team into a completely new platform or workflow.
