New Website Release – Business Association for Multicultural Students [Web Design] : Divide By Zero

As I just posted on my company blog, I’ve just finished another website. The site is for the Business Association of Multicultural Students, of which I will be a member of soon.

I met with some officers of the group last Tuesday. That was when I started developing the site and in less than a week and 30 hours later I was finished and met the budget. How’s that for turnover?

Here are some of the features I implemented:

Google Calendar for managing events.
Google Picasa for managing photos, along with a barebones custom PHP photo gallery script for the website itself.
Google Analytics for site stats and tracking.
Poll script and administration using SimPoll.
Integrated WordPress blog.
Integrated phpBB3 forum.
JohnDesign’s SmoothGallery for homepage “animations.�?
SimplePie RSS reader for showing upcoming events and blog posts. I use RegEx to parse the date an event occurs from their Google Calendar RSS feed.
Custom admin control panel for uploading member resumes, along with a password-protected section for recruiters to view them.
Fully degradable design for accessibility, functions without JavaScript or CSS, like always!

Wow, that’s a lot of features, and all of the scripts were free! Unfortunately due to time constraints I was not able to skin their blog and forum, but perhaps at a later date they will want me to.

I know some people will be interested in my PHP + Picasa Photo Gallery integration and my parsing of Google’s Calendar RSS feed, so I will post those soon and update this post!

Updated (8/4/08 7:52PM): PHP code for the RegEx is posted.

Updated (8/6/08 11:03PM): You can view the old site as well, if you wanted to see a before/after.

Updated (8/12/08 8:31PM): I posted a how to on integrating Picasa using PHP.

Comments

Those are some great scripts with great features. I am very interested in them and would like to subscribe to this blog's RSS feed. :)

Posted by: Angela
On September 1, 2008 10:19 PM

Love the use of colours on this design

Posted by: steupz
On September 9, 2008 12:06 AM

Need this type of gung-ho doers on a regular basis. Plz let me know if you're interested in working together.

Posted by: RockyMtnHi
On November 3, 2008 7:15 PM

Posted by: RockyMtnHi
On November 3, 2008 7:16 PM

I like the layout / design of your new site. It looks clean and filled with great scripts.

Thanks for sharing it.

Posted by: WebSight
On November 7, 2008 10:48 AM

Really nice blog layout. Where can I download this blog theme. Mind sharing?

Posted by: Nizzura
On November 18, 2008 3:39 AM

great scripts - with awesome features

Posted by: Simon Powers
On December 3, 2008 7:47 AM

Well done on such a quick turnaround for a website you can really be proud of.

Posted by: Alan
On December 13, 2008 6:54 PM

I love the new colors and the layout. Good job.

Posted by: Financer
On December 14, 2008 1:33 AM

Love the blog layout. Very professionally done

Posted by: Brian
On December 15, 2008 8:10 PM

Yes very well done!

Posted by: Tony
On January 14, 2009 11:06 AM

This is a lovely design, well done. So many blogs are really ugly as are so many websites.

Rosie

Posted by: Tarot
On February 11, 2009 4:30 AM

Absolutely great design! The colors and themes you used matches the site perfectly. Again, thank you for sharing your post on "How To: Integrate Google Picasa Onto Your Own Website Using PHP".
Thanks also for sharing the downloaded source code. It helps me a lot.

Posted by: custom website designer
On February 12, 2009 12:03 AM

Love your design. The colors are perfect.

Posted by: Jackie
On February 22, 2009 11:58 PM

i'm not so sure about colors, but the design is top notch with clean polished lines. Probably the header is a little taller or just seems to me. Otherwise the website is pretty neat. Still waiting for your Google’s Calendar RSS feed parsing tutorial :)

Posted by: chemotherapy
On March 13, 2009 3:48 AM

I like the vibrant colors of the new design. Of course, I am partial to night sceens of buildings myself.

Posted by: super jumbo mortgage
On March 17, 2009 1:40 AM

This looks like a very nice website. You've implemented some very useful scripts. Great job, and thanks for sharing!

Posted by: Jessica
On April 14, 2009 12:40 AM

The design is cool :)

Posted by: Jack
On April 17, 2009 4:02 AM

Great design. Is the template available somewhere?

Posted by: Ken
On April 22, 2009 2:15 AM

I think the design is really clean. I like the muted red or is it brown for the background. I am a Wordpress junkie who thinks websites should never have to be coded in straight html again.

Posted by: Wordpresspro
On May 14, 2009 3:23 PM

Posted by: googlecashkit
On May 23, 2009 2:10 AM

That is a nice looking layout and design. The calendar looks like a handy tool.

Posted by: identity protection
On June 18, 2009 9:27 AM

Good job done.Please post the rest soon.The design is really good.

Posted by: Custom Web Programming
On June 25, 2009 6:49 AM

Nice design the colours are very complimentary. The font also seems to be well spaced which I find a big problem on many blogs.

Posted by: Beads Stalk
On July 17, 2009 12:11 AM

Nice choice using a Wordpress backend as it is super robust and offers countless plugins for enhanced capability. Additionally, WP is extremely search engine friendly and will help your site get picked up by Google, Yahoo and Bing.

Posted by: West Palm Beach SEO
On August 27, 2009 1:18 PM

Definitely a great design. It's very clean and easy to read. If only more blogs were like that lol

Posted by: Justin
On September 7, 2009 1:00 AM

I agree. The designer of this site is good at what they do. Congratulations.

Posted by: resveratrol
On September 25, 2009 7:55 PM

I really liked the layout of this post. Congratulations to the designer.

Posted by: Cape Cod Hotel
On October 15, 2009 12:19 AM

I like some colors when designing and these colors are mostly vibrant.

Posted by: Red Wine
On October 21, 2009 5:00 AM

I am a web designer this site help me a lot.Thanks for sharing this valuable site.

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On October 21, 2009 5:22 AM

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