Projects

Erin discovered that her site was a little too pink, when co-workers commented it looked like Slashdot's infamous "OMG Ponies" page. Talk regarding a redesign quickly began.

The design was created originally in Illustrator, and ported in pieces to a Wordpress template. It was later widened to accommodate leaderboard advertisements. One of the main goals of this version was also to migrate to Wordpress 2.3, and convert from Ultimate Tag Warrior to Wordpress 2.3's native tagging system. Plugins were added to make for easier sharing of the content via ShareThis, and to highlight related and popular posts.

Erin was trapped at home unemployed over the summer, and in the process learned to be a pretty darn good cook. After getting tired of telling all her friends about the great recipes she was making, she decided instead to show them. Erin now showcases some of her favorite recipes in easy, step by step pictures.

I helped her set everything up from installing Wordpress, customizing an existing theme to better suit her site ideas, and hacking plugins to make creating her posts almost as easy as making the meals she shows off.

In exploring alternatives to Wordpress for ckelly.net, I tried Textpattern. Attempting to import my old Wordpress posts, I found they were not being imported properly. As any good open source power user would do, I delved into the code and modified the import script for migrating Wordpress blog entries into the Textpattern database.

My Friend Hänni finally decided to move off of Blogger and claim her own little spot on the Internet. The result was Hännihaus, one of the most happenin' places around.

I exported all her posts off of Blogger, imported them to a fresh Wordpress install, added plugins, and took her graphic artist's initial designs and graphics and transformed them into the XHTML/ CSS layout.