Just another human
This site was built in conjunction with Liberate Media, a jolly nice and talented local agency. Upon request, I provisioned and project managed the creative graphic design element of the site, working with the talented Atelier Grafik, then built the site using WordPress by creating a custom child theme of Thematic.
Designed and planned by the lovely folks at the Madano Partnership, this site uses WordPress and a custom child theme of Thematic to provide a number of different custom post types, carousels and neat functionality to convey effectively their commercial offering.
This was an exciting project with a great existing client. The requirement was for a German-language version of the site I’d previously built for them. Here the power of WordPress and Thematic really came to the fore. It was a relatively painless procedure to produce a copy of the theme for the German site. Once that was done, this project involved management in equal measure alongside development. Having been involved in foreign-language website builds before, this was definitely the most painless.
A quick and simple custom child theme for Thematic using XHTML, CSS, a few PHP functions and a little jQuery.
This was an unusual project, completed over a short timescale from brief to go-live. My client had previously commissioned a London agency to build the site for her based on design work previously done, but was very dissatisfied with both their service and quality of work. I then stripped the website’s assets, took a full backup of the site, compiled a list of reasons why the website provided was not fit for purpose and then re-factored the website as a child theme for Thematic on top of WordPress. I kept the best of the design and stripped away complications and unnecessary functionality to realise the design as a fluid, intuitive and attractive website that’s focussed on desired visitor outcomes, and on tracking those.
Technically, the site involved writing lots of new functions in PHP, then just my normal valid XHTML, optimised CSS and unobtrusive JavaScript using the jQuery library. This site uses the Custom WordPress Menus for Thematic function I wrote and posted here.
Website design and build from logo and site text. This is my first WordPress site to go live with a completely custom theme, although I’ve got a few still in process… Incorporates Google Apps and a contact form as well as full backup and analytics.
