This website was built with a practical mix of human direction, web design tools, video production software, and carefully reviewed AI-assisted content.
CedarVia uses technology to support clarity, creativity, accessibility, and communication. The tools help with drafting, design, research, imagery, video concepts, audio, editing, and publishing, but the final decisions remain human.
The CedarVia website is built on Joomla and hosted through SiteGround. Joomla provides the content management system for organizing pages, menus, articles, links, and site structure. SiteGround provides the hosting environment that keeps the website available online.
Nicepage is used for page layout and visual design within Joomla. It allows the site to combine structured content with responsive visual sections, menus, images, and page elements.
Content management, page organization, menus, categories, publishing, and site structure.
Visual design, responsive layouts, page sections, image placement, and front-end page building.
Hosting, server support, performance tools, backups, and website availability.
AI tools are used to support drafting, editing, brainstorming, page structure, search engine descriptions, and design concepts. These tools help speed up the creative and editorial process, but they do not replace human judgment, review, or responsibility.
CedarVia currently uses ChatGPT and Claude by Anthropic for writing support, content revision, concept development, and planning. These tools are especially useful for shaping rough ideas into clearer language, comparing different ways to explain a service, and improving page structure.
Used for drafting, rewriting, strategy, SEO text, page structure, and creative problem-solving.
Used as a second writing and reasoning tool for editing, comparison, long-form thinking, and refinement.
Final content is reviewed, revised, selected, and approved by people before publication.
CedarVia uses a combination of traditional editing tools and generative media tools to create visual concepts, social share images, page graphics, and video materials. The goal is to support the message of each page with visuals that are clear, respectful, and appropriate to the subject.
Final Cut Pro is used for video editing and post-production. Runway is used for generative video concepts and motion experiments. ElevenLabs is used for audio and voice-related production where appropriate. Older Sora-generated visual material is still used in some cases where it remains suitable for the website or related video work.
Video editing, sequencing, pacing, colour, audio placement, and final production.
Generative video concepts, visual experiments, motion tests, and short creative sequences.
Audio and voice production support for narration, drafts, tests, and media development.
Earlier generative video material is still used where it fits the message and remains appropriate.
Video content may be hosted through platforms such as Vimeo or YouTube, depending on the project, audience, embedding needs, and distribution plan. These platforms make it possible to share video on the website and across related channels.
Some videos are used directly on CedarVia pages, while longer video projects, experiments, and related creative work may be hosted through sister sites or supporting channels.
Many of the visual concepts on the website draw from British Columbia landscapes, cedar forests, rivers, coastlines, mountains, animals, meeting spaces, and practical work settings. The visual direction is intended to feel grounded, calm, and connected to place.
CedarVia avoids using fake Indigenous art, invented cultural symbols, or decorative imagery that could misrepresent Indigenous cultures, communities, protocols, or ceremonial spaces. Where Indigenous-related subjects are discussed, visuals are chosen with additional care.
AI-generated images and videos on this website should be understood as illustrative visual material unless otherwise stated. They are not presented as documentary photographs of specific people, communities, ceremonies, meetings, or events.
The purpose of the imagery is to support communication, not to replace lived experience, community knowledge, or direct relationship.
AI tools are useful, but they can also make mistakes, produce generic language, or generate imagery that requires careful review. CedarVia treats AI output as a draft or production aid, not as a final authority.
Content is reviewed for accuracy, tone, privacy, cultural safety, usefulness, and fit with CedarVia’s work. Sensitive client information is not intended for public AI-assisted workflows unless it is already appropriate to share and has been handled with care.
AI tools are guided by human prompts, judgment, selection, revision, and approval.
Drafts are checked for clarity, accuracy, tone, cultural care, and practical usefulness.
Technology is used to support better communication, not to obscure responsibility or judgment.
Visual and written materials are reviewed for cultural safety, privacy, attribution, and appropriate context.
Related publishing and media work can also be found through Agassiz Publishing and Ancient BC.
CedarVia’s web presence will continue to evolve as the tools improve, the services grow, and the organization’s work changes over time.
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