The site was created to communicate information regarding the managing of the fund including news updates, the teams performance, various types of reports and documentation and to aid in recruitment efforts within the faculty.

The overall design of the site was kept minimal, allowing the content to be easily readable and navigable. The site is powered by WordPress as a CMS and incorporates jQuery into the theme allows for simple updates to the main site navigation, as well as handle the styling of various elements in a consistent manner throughout the site, allowing editors to focus solely on the most important element of the site, the content.

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The site was intended to be a simplistic one page layout placing the primary focus on the flash MP3 player, while providing other pieces of information, such as track listings and song lyrics within a modal window that allows the music to continuously play in the background.

The overall look and feel of the site was designed to have a strong resemblance to a wild west style wanted poster, found in saloons across the land. Six Revisions provides an excellent tutorial on creating this effect, and a few modifications made this print style layout fit well within a web environment.

The site is powered by WordPress and incorporates a little jQuery and Fancybox work to create the modals used for additional information. The flash MP3 player is a highly customizable product offered by Flabell, a company that builds and sells highly quality flash components at affordable prices, and features tools to allow site visitors and fans alike to download the music to use on their own personal devices.

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The previous iteration of the site had become extremely dated in both look and feel as well as content, and the inability of staff to easily update their content had become a serious concern. For this project the entire look and feel of the site was redesigned to allow for easier to read content as well as to better utilize the centre’s corporate color scheme. The logo was also revamped in an attempt to move away from a dated clipart look and feel.

To allow staff members to easily and intuitively creating new content and editing existing content, the templates were designed to utilize WordPress as a CMS. The job board is the main service offered by the Employment Connection Centre, which uses a combination of WordPress posts alongside the powerful plugin, Custom Field Template. This combination allows staff members to quickly post new jobs and easily add key areas of importance within the plugins predetermined field areas that are given more focus on the front facing website.

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After aiding in the testing of server security and stability we began the task of migration with a completion date goal of December 2009, but with the aid of hard working team members, we successfully completed the project in September, allowing me to join the other developers in setting up CMS site for those still using older Dreamweaver templates.

During the course of the migration into Carleton CMS, I also managed the majority of the WordPress software installations, upgrades as well as plugin upgrades and testing. While working with the lead developer and other team members, we added several new features to the CMS in an effort increase the functionality and provide the content editors and other staff and faculty with more powerful tools in a simplistic setup.

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The previous iteration of the site was housed externally, and built upon a foreign content management system and the need to host the site internally as well as to take back the responsibility of creating and of editing content arose within the AUCC. To accommodate this, a series of English templates were created to match the previous look and feel of the site and to also fix the previously broken functionality, while using the various features of WordPress as a CMS. The templates were then were duplicated and converted into the Russian language.

To increase the usability of the site, a variety of tools were used such as NextGen Gallery for the photo albums, cformsII for the contact forms, and jQuery to create a tabbed style layout within each projects information page.

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Built upon WordPress, the primary focus of the site is to showcase the companies creative baking abilities and variety of ideas presented in a delectable format. The homepage uses a jQuery slideshow to present visitors with beautiful, high quality imagery of custom cakes upon entering the site, and has been setup to allow for easy navigation throughout the various informational and gallery pages.

The three main areas of baking services offered showcases an image gallery that is powered by a combination of the NextGen Gallery plugin and the Thickbox jQuery add-on.

To increase functionality, expanding menus were included to allow easy sub-dividing of content pages. The availability calendar allows visitors or potential clients to have a quick overview of dates that have yet to be booked, which is powered by the Events Calendar plugin.

Site visitors can also fill out a short form to request a quote for their desired baked good, or can ask general questions by filling out the contact form. Both form areas are powered by the cformsII plugin.

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The idea behind a blog to showcase the activities and travel experiences of the students who participate in the Students for Development program was quickly conceived, and had to be complete in an extremely short time frame. In order to meet the tight deadline, a free WordPress theme was selected and modified to fit the blog needs, and created in both English and French.

Starting with one blogger per language, a variety of experiences from the participants travels were shared with friends, family and others who were interested in the program. Over time, both blogs expanded to include numerous bloggers, stationed all around the world. Each blog has gone through various changes since its original inception to accommodate more bloggers and to allow the content to be easier to browse.

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The previous iteration of the University Affairs website had become increasingly difficult to navigate, read as well as edit content. With the need to create a stronger online presence, and to make news items available in a more timely fashion, the University Affairs site, and the desire to strengthen the magazines brand, the process of redesigning the site using a content management system was conceived.

Working alongside design firm Ecentricarts, a series of templates were created that suited the needs of the staff at University Affairs. After some investigative work on a variety of content management systems, Ektron CMS400.net was chosen and the development of the site concepts was contracted out to Falcon Software.

During the course of the project I played a key role in reviewing site concepts as well as overseeing the administration of the site and the creation and editing of content.

Note: following a complete redesign of the print version of University Affairs, the website has undergone a change of color schemes and font styles

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The overall look and feel of the site was based on a very simple bookmark that was designed which reflects the imagery depicted within the header area. A the time of the sites development, no content management system was in place, and the templates were created as Dreamweaver templates, in a microsite style format.

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