For the past couple months I have been working on a pet project that is finally LIVE! Florida Bar Scene is my latest project and one of the most complete WordPress Themes I have created. You can view it at www.floridabarscene.com. Florida Bar Scene (FBS) is to become the most complete bar guide for the state of Florida. Right now we cover the Tampa Bay area, but are branching out into other cities shortly. The next city on our agenda is Orlando. The website is set up so each bar has it’s own post through WordPress. They are organized by their category and can be found through using the drop down navigation. If a bar is a PREMIUM member they will have their logo and Google Map displayed. Here is an example of what a premium membership looks like: Premium Member.So far I have over 250 bar listed and have another 150 bars to be uploaded to the website. When it’s all done it’ll incorporate over 450 bars in the Tampa area ranging from your neighborhood bar to your fanciest nightclubs. Once all the bars are finished the next step is to add the ability to comment on each bar and rate each bar. I expect that functionality to be added within the week.
Here’s a recent website done using WordPress as a CMS. The client Tom Shea has a lot of content so we utilize drop down menu’s to control the information architecture of the website. This was a challenging website since many of the pages look different, which required many different template files. Another challenge was the size restrictions. I’m used to designing relatively fluid websites and to reacquaint myself to overflow attributes. I was able to keep the website looking almost exactly like the PSD file given to me so we were able to avoid making any major changes to the site since it was all pre-approved.
Another web design rush job was given to me recently. Pretty simple site utilizing WordPress as a CMS. The site design didn’t purpose any challenges so I was able to get online within hours of receiving the PSD file. Once online the client made a lot of changes that required some major changes to the size of the site, and reformatting. To be completely honest I think the original site design is a step up from the finished product but unfortunately I don’t get to make the final decisions. The client is very pleased with the website and that is what really matters.