Portfolio

During January/February I worked at BoatShop24 developing a Wordpress hub site for PracticalBoating.com. The aim was to integrate the existing vBulletin forums with a new Wordpress blog framework. The final Wordpress theme involved the development of several Wordpress page templates and plugins including:

• Video Gallery (YouTube API)
• Google news auto-blogging (Google API)
• RSS feeds
• SEO (Wordpress plugin)

The Swift theme was used as the basis for style – with only slight adjustment needed for colour and branding.

Overall I was amazed how quickly a media-rich site can be built up using CMS/blogging frameworks such as Wordpress. The plethora of community contributed plugins and themes add to the value of such technology – however, for production there will always be the need for adjustments to the majority of free code that is available.

Visit the site: http://www.practicalboating.com