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.
Archive for the ‘PHP’ Category
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.
Ventura All Star Blues Night
2009
The one page website always wants to grow beyond a single page. Location details, contact or signup forms, and other necessarily information can clutter the impact of a single, promotion focused page. Javascript can help hide a quick webform or other key information until the user is ready for it, while keeping the site crisp and refined.
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.
Ventura First
2009
Creating a warm, friendly design with room to promote current events was the main directive for this church’s website. Offering informational content, podcasts, videos, blogs, and more, this site was another prime canidate for Drupal and it’s ability to deal with information uniquely based on content type. After looking at numerous slideshows for the promo area on the homepage, building one on my own proved to be simple and gave the client exactly what they wanted.
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.
GTD Connect
2008
When we redesigned the GTD member’s only site, we found ourselves with plenty of great content with multiple paths to find what you want. Unfortunately, there were very few indicators of what was fresh and no promotion of new content. In spite or regular updates, this gave the site a stale feel because the homepage rarely changed.
The site was built on a Smarty PHP templating system which allowed database calls to the already well established content system to flow seamlessly within the compliant HTML and CSS. As a result, merging the databased archive with a brand new design that promoted new information to the homepage was a piece of cake and the project was turned around in record time.