InlandEmpireKarting.com
It feels kind of good and familiar to be back in the racing genre. I recently completed a site for the San Bernardino Raceway, here in Southern California. This was a WordPress site with a BBPress forum alongside.
PaintballChick.net & Logo
I recently was asked to upgrade a vBulletin site for lady Painball players to a new theme and redesign their logo. vBulletin was and is a pain – so arcane to work with. But designing the logo was kind of fun. I used a camo/military theme for the “Paintball” text and then a nice flowing script font in hot pink for the “Chick” text. With a pink paintball splat, of course.
LeonStylesRacing.com
I launched a new site for a client this week and it’s back in the racing genre. The site is for New Zealand rallye/drift driver Leon Styles: leonstylesracing.com. It’s built on WordPress with a nice car-centric theme. One of the keys to this deployment are using a variety of plugins to pull together content from various social media sites.
Real Estate Sites
Over the summer I did some work for a couple of realtors. One site was built with WordPress, the other two with a lightweight CMS called SlyBlueCanvas. SkyBlueCanvas is pretty well done and you can put together a nice sized site with no database requirement. Very handy for clients who want that sort of thing, or who are still on older and/or cheaper hosting.
Each site was augmented with various jQuery effects and add-ons to bring motion and styling to the sites. jQuery is pretty tough to beat for providing quick and easy integration of very whizzy functionality.
The sites are:
NewOrleans.com
Last month I completed development work on NewOrleans.com, the site for the city of New Orleans. This was a massive rework of a legacy site, some parts of which had been around for many, many years. The new deployment’s core is the Joomla CMS. Supporting are phpAdsNew for banner ads, Gallery2 for photos, and Simple Machines Forums.
IgorPantuhoff.com
A site built for the owner of The Paper Bag Princess to display her gallery of the artist’s works. This site uses a commercial template and the SlideShowPro Flash-based gallery component.
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ThePaperBagPrincess.com
A complete site overhaul, migrating from a somewhat disorganized HTML-based site to a CMS-driven system with Flash-based photo galleries. Two microsites were also part of the project, as well as migrating the online store to a premier solution provider..
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FormulaFoto.com
A photographer I know wanted a site built to handle his work from taking pictures at races. He wanted something he could manage from his laptop while travelling, and something with a lot of specific features. I found a nice script that did most of what he wanted and designed the logo (using a nice Ferrari-esque font).
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