Work Notes - Website Development

Things I’ve learnt, want to remember, or ‘keep on file’ that come in handy when developing websites.

Here are 101 WordPress plugins, a great way to easily expand your site and get more out of it. Plus some are just nifty little gadgets to have.

http://onemansgoal.com/144/101-wordpress-plugins-that-you-may-not-have-known-about/

Here’s another tutorial website, plenty of tutorials for different programs and that.

http://www.tutorialized.com/

http://www.roscripts.com/Best_CSS_tools_of_May-151.html

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Clear

Why have I been wasting my time designing and coding when I can just grab one of theses and build sites around that!!

Ok, not quite, but these are a great start if you don’t know too much about CSS.

http://www.cssmenumaker.com/

These tweaks are a little more creative, they’ll give your photos a great look.

http://blog.epicedits.com/2007/09/17/warning-these-9-photoshop-techniques-may-result-in-great-photos/ 

http://www.html.su/entities.html

Need to know the HTML entity for a certain character, here’s a complete list.

eg.   is a space.

Here a some really basic, but fantastic, tips on correcting colour in your photos.

http://www.dezinerfolio.com/2007/08/30/simple-and-effective-photographic-results-for-beginners/

I recently used WordPress as a CMS, and I think it was a brilliant move!

I had never thought of doing this until it was suggested to me, but it makes perfect sense, especially if the end user will be a non-technical type person. Wordpress is built so that the most basic user, with little to no experience can get around it and make some changes without too much hassle, so I’m pleased with the way this project turned out.

The website where I used this is www.sentrik.com.au

UPDATE: I just stumbled across this blog post on using WordPress as a CMS, there is also a bunch of links at the end of it which may be helpful.

http://www.graphicdesignblog.co.uk/wordpress-as-a-cms-content-management-system

http://www.silverstripe.com/

Stumbled across this content management system, haven’t used it, looks good at first glance, but no recommendation here.