Tuscano's Old Site

Tuscano's New Site

Who:

Tuscano Italian Restaurant

Tech Stack:

PHP, CSS, XHTML

Theme:

Simplistic with focus on the pictures of their terrific food

Features:

• Lightbox Image Gallery
• Google Maps “Directions” widget
• Downloadable menus – Not done yet
• Editable menus – Web server doesn’t support db tables, waiting to see if we can move them to something else so I can install WordPress
• Printable coupon – Not added yet
• Used corners.js to create corner look – Works in everything except IE 6, same with dropdown menu

Link:

Tuscano Italian Restaurant

WordPress MU

WordPress MU back-end

Who:

Me, myself, and I

What:

WordPress Multi-User edition – The WordPress administrative wrapper that WordPress.com runs off of.

Enables a site to create and maintain as many blogs as their servers can handle using the auto-generated sub-domains (blog1.domainname.com) or folders (domainname.com/blog1).

Currently the development team over at Automattic is merging the codelines of WordPress and WordPress-MU, very exciting.

Features:

• Innumerable blogs
• Using a domain mapping plug-in I was able to turn the MU back-end into a multi-domain/site administrative interface.

Learned:

Slightly more difficult to implement, though following a couple of how-to’s made it pretty easy.

If this is going to be integrated into the general wordpress codeline I will provide an update and how-to once it is available.

Erin's Portfolio Site - Unfinished

Who:

My lovely (not to mention talented) artist friend Erin McManness who can be found at http://www.lii-chan.deviantart.com/ and her blog at http://labellaironia.blogspot.com/

What:

Artist Digital Portfolio using WordPress as a CMS for the photos and captions etc.

Tech stack:

Apache Web server, PHP, MySQL, CSS, XHTML, Javascript, XML

Features:

• “jquery.lightbox.js” – Javascript that creates an enlarging effect, focus users entire attention on the picture. More information can be found at http://leandrovieira.com/projects/jquery/lightbox/
• “jquery.corner.js” – Javascript that creates rounded corners effect by building extra divs outside of the specified div, blending the sharp corners. More information on this can be found at http://www.malsup.com/jquery/corner/
• Custom php function for the WordPress theme to pull appropriately sized image attachments from a post (one for thumbnail and one for Lightbox view)
• jquery sliding div – See the Code Snippets category for more information
  

Link:

Round 1

Press and Journal Inc. – A publisher based in Middletown, PA

What:

• Web-consulting – Advice, trends, self-hosting options/prices,  ways to save money etc.
• Web-editing – Banner-ad placement via Javascript “injection” on a Ning community site
• Prototyping – Two almost complete mimics of their current pandjinc.com sites

Prototypes:

Pandjinc.com

Original site – may or may not still be at www.pandjinc.com

Pandjinc's site done using Joomla

Using Joomla – located here

Pandjinc's site done using WordPress

Using WordPress and the Athualpa theme.

At the time of this writing it is located here .

Big 33 Scholarship Foundation

Who:

Big 33 Scholarship Foundation

Tech Stack:

Apache Web server, PHP, MySQL, CSS, XHTML, Javascript, XML

Open Source:

WordPress.org

Theme:

I’m not sure what theme we ended up using, we hacked it apart into something that became virtually Big 33′s own theme.

Extremely basic site, just trying to maintain the focus on the content.

Features:

• Manageable
• Re-organization of the content (slightly more structured)
• Search-able file repository (WordPress media)
• Javascript slide shows, previously they had Flash and had no way of updating/editing them.
• Under their control and well-documented information on domain registrations and passwords etc.

Link:

Big 33

MCVBC

Who:

Messiah College Men’s Volleyball Team

Tech Stack:

Apache Web server, PHP, MySQL, CSS, XHTML, Javascript, XML

Open Source:

WordPress.org

Theme:

Re-colored (blue) Gravel by Noonnoo which can also be found at http://www.noonnoo.com/things/gravel_1-4/

Features:

• Photos via Next Gen Gallery (wordpress plug-in) written by Ruben Boelinger
• Results/Schedules/Scores laid out in nice tabular format, used WP-Table (wordpress plug-in) again by Ruben Boelinger

Link:

Messiah Men’s Volleyball Team