Darren O'Neill
Friend of Playgroup
- Loves: Liverpool FC, Gaming, Films
- Hates: Go karting, People who say "Interweb", Onions
- Inspired by:
- Hong Kong
- Shigeru Miyamoto
- Christopher Lee
- My links:
Playgroup Website Launched
After lots of planning and hard work the Playgroup web site is finally here. Working closely together with Jamie, the design lead, we just about hit the deadline. The site essentially started out as two independent mini sites comprising of an about us section and a blog section. As development progressed and it became apparent that content from both sides crossed over we amended the original idea and now have an integrated custom built solution which we are all happy with.
This is only phase one of the web site and we hope to roll out the next iteration in the next month. New features will include a full site search, tagging of news and portfolio pieces (as well as the current blog entries) and full pagination and archiving across the board. There will also be some subtle design tweaks.
For those of you who are technically minded: the site is coded in Object Orientated PHP 5 with a MySQL database backend.
Posted by Darren on 15 Feb 08, at 12:15 pm
5 comments on this post
Well done..lets get a beer!
Looks great- and works! Well done Jamie, Darren, Clare and everyone who's contributed. Playtime has begun.
Great brand, great looking site. Keep going though: Playgroups I go to don't have "software architects" and "partner services managers" they have "party organisers" and "fun people". Surely, the designers are "fun makers" and reception is "the play area"?
Good luck with it all!
I love the new site guys, great work! Is it running on a blog system like Wordpress as a CMS? Or is it all custom built? I must say it works really well, which ever it is, and brings a nice sense of community to the new name and branding. Inspiring stuff!
The late nights were worth it then, eh?