Please head over to my contestant page and place your vote every day for the next four days.

Thanks to @technotheory for the photo above of my performance last year where I sang The Humpty Dance and came in fourth place.

I would love to see the opposite article: Tips for Developers working with Designers written by a designer with a lot of experience working with developers. I, personally, am more of a developer than I am a designer so I wouldn’t be qualified to write that article myself.

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.

I just wrote a post over at the Giraffe on what core Wordpress files to edit if you would like underscores instead of dashes in your Wordpress URIs. It is unfortunate that you cannot add a filter to a wordpress them to avoid having to update the core files every time you upgrade Wordpress.