Sunday, August 31, 2008 @ 11:52 pm by Sofie Hofmann
Before we went for a vacation on July 7-19, 2008, I finished revising the Website of Philippine Seafarers Assistance Programme. I used WordPress as CMS for the site, and it took me several months to finish it as I was not really working on it regularly. When WordPress 2.5 came out, I started working regularly on the site utilizing WordPress as CMS. WordPress 2.5 has a built-in gallery and I wanted that, not just a Plugin.
I made use of the built-in gallery for the Photo Gallery under Profile section and also for the Ship and Crew of the Month under Seafarers section.
The web design is not at all new, it was based on the original web design of the site. While I was working on the PSAP-PAROLA.ORG theme based on the original web design, I thought of not using any WordPress Plugin. Indeed I did not use any, not a single one, not even Akismet as the comments section for all the articles are all closed.
I just used Post instead of Page for the articles to make the sections dynamic. I used the word section instead of category as the site is not at all a blog. I just created several category and single category pages so the article belonging to a section will only appear in that section. I used category and postname for the Permalinks. I was able to make everything dynamic without using any WordPress Plugin.
I used two lay-outs for this site, a three-column page for the front page using one column for the sidebar positioned on the left, and a two-column page for the other pages in which one column is a sidebar also positioned on the left.
If you navigate the site, you will notice that the background color of the sidebar and the topbar changes in Profile, Seafarers, Volunteers, Resources, and Parola sections. I used the conditional if else for that and it worked. As I’ve said, I did not want to use any WordPress Plugin.
I was proud having been able to redesign the site. The newly redesigned Website of Philippine Seafarers Assistance Programme had been online since then.
Thursday, July 31, 2008 @ 12:29 pm by Sofie Hofmann
I finally upgraded all the eight (8) sites that I maintain using WordPress as CMS. I spent the whole day yesterday backing up the database, saving some files, upgrading the sites except for my personal blog, and also upgrading all the WordPress Plugins that I’m using with the different sites.
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Monday, June 30, 2008 @ 11:30 pm by Sofie Hofmann
I have been using Counterize II WordPress Plugin for quite sometime now. Counterize II is actually a very good and a very useful WordPress Statistics Plugin. It is always handy as I see the statistics at the WordPress admin panel as it saves the statistics data in my database. This is actually my problem now, as it is not using external libs, and I don’t want to delete the data, they are occupying too much space of my database.
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I am Sofie Hofmann and I have been designing websites since 1999. My background is in training, sales and marketing before venturing into web design and development but merely as a hobby.
