A social network around building a immersive, unique environments should bring you right into the passion that drives the hobby. The Buddypress plugin extends Wordpress’ capabilities into social networking without abandoning what Wordpress does best, creating a highly customizable site that’s easy to manage.
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Instrumental Music – in progress
not yet final
Retail — especially musical instrument retail — is known for trying to out scream the competition, but when your product is as gorgeous as a well-built guitar, perhaps the best a website can do is get out of the way. The counterbalance is that it’s very hard to establish a brand with a pallet of subtle grays. That’s where tasteful use of color allows the right elements to pop, while never getting in a shouting match.
Hardcore Fitness Blog
2010
Sometimes an established design just works and has the underlying structure solidly in place. Then all that’s needed to launch a new venture is a quick theme to give you access to all Wordpress‘ features without making your user feel as though they’re jumping to a completely new system. The existing site’s use of Yahoo’s YUI CSS can make the transition of the HTML to a new system completely painless with minimal original CSS.
BOKU Weight Loss
2010
A promo site for a contest needs to tie into the core product’s site design and brand, while standing out as a unique and exciting event. Sometimes a lead image can accomplish this by communicating the core concepts of the contest while not actually presenting the product or contest format.
Polite Javascript gives above the fold calls to action without breaking the site for users who have scripting turned off.
Bellini
2009
Your choice of content management system can often come down a decision between flexibility and ease of use. By limiting options, Wordpress brings content management right down to the level that anyone can do it; Drupal provides a more robust system with a much higher learning curve. But more and more Wordpress plugins are being developed to help bridge that gap, and among the best is Role Scoper.
Some custom theme work and Role Scoper helped divy up Bellini’s store pages between location employees and regional managers.
GTD Times
2008
After creating many Wordpress templates for personal blogs over the years, putting together a theme for the official GTD blog was a snap. But nothing easy is ever simple. Creating a theme with two sidebars, one of which splits in half to incorporate square ads in an attractive manner, proved to be a modest challenge, stretching my theme and widget building in new directions.
