January 5th, 2010
Here’s something we ain’t blogged about yet: the portal of Taranaki, the beautiful region where Momentum was born. It’s a site-system that began as an effort to unify a family of websites that dealt with different aspects of life in Taranaki, like tourism, film, business, governance, etc. This was three years ago. Today’s Taranaki - Like No Other website has evolved considerably, and, like all good sites, that process is ongoing.
Allow me to guide you through some of the cool techniques we pulled designing this site.
The menu
The first challenge we had, was of course how to structure, and easily navigate such huge amounts of diverse data. Beyond the main areas (top-right) we still had enormous branches of information.
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January 5th, 2010
Momentum enjoyed the opportunity to redevelop the McDonald Real Estate site (http://www.eieio.co.nz/) from the ground up.
A real estate site is a great technical challenge - hundreds of listings and thousands of photos changing daily, as well as complex searches and regular content changes.
We decided to use a free, open source CMS called Silverstripe.
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August 13th, 2009
I was fortunate enough to attend the first Wordpress Wordcamp NZ last weekend.
It was an energised, fun packed weekend with speakers and participants from a diverse range of backgrounds - lawyers, teachers, journalists, authors, designers, developers and geeks. All were passionate about their blog/CMS of choice - Wordpress.
Having rarely blogged or used Wordpress before, I was shown its power, flexibility and the huge range of plugins available. As a developer, its important for me to get under the hood, so I will be spending some time with digital wrench in hand.
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