My skate site, haveboard.com had not seen a redesign since 2006 so I put things in gear and got a new custom WordPress theme with a lot of new plugins in effect. I wrote about it here as well as in my featured work section.

I recently had the pleasure to work with Jetty Clothing on their website. They already had a site built on top of WordPress but they wanted to do a little more as well as have some freedom to updating their homepage.

I had the pleasure of working with Nick Zegel on this project. Read about the project here or check out JettyLife.com.

On December 8, 2009 ucpgg.org was relaunched with a new website in collaboration with the Wildfire Agency, Damien DeChurch, and myself.The old site needed a lot of work as you can see above. A CMS was built using Wordpress for this project with a lot of heavy customization and the help of various plugins.

They also required a user forum, which I utilized Vanilla Forums and built a custom theme for that as well, to match the look of the site.

I particularly liked the Wordpress Custom Admin Branding Plugin. Clients can tend to think that Wordpress is just a blogging platform so it helps to apply the Client’s logo to the Admin section of Wordpress and this plugin does just that, with a few edits to their template files.

Last week Meljoy.com launched and I’m quite happy with the outcome. It was my first venture into using wordpress for a client’s portfolio site. The thumbnails on the right hand site are her Work, and the left shows the blog as well as the detail view of the Work section.

This site is hosted on godaddy on a windows server. It is also an aliased domain. This became a major hurdle when I moved the site from the development environment to the the production server. I had to disable clean URLs in wordpress, and because it is an aliased domain, the site pages, although at root level have to show the name of the aliased directory along with the domain name like this: http://meljoy.com/meljoy/?p=590. I wasn’t particularly happy with this for many reasons, including SEO. I believe you can get clean URLs working on a godaddy windows server, but it no simple task, and I regretfully could not spend any more time on it. My experience is more on the Linux Server side of things, so it is always an interesting task when a client has a windows server. Maybe next time I’ll dive in and get that working, godaddy.

Have a look and check out all the amazing stuff that Melanie does. Feedback Is definitely welcome.