New Website Release – Business Association for Multicultural Students [Web Design] | Posted at 7:24 PM
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
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 7:16 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
I like the layout / design of your new site. It looks clean and filled with great scripts.
Thanks for sharing it.
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