I don’t even know if there will be more than one entry, so don’t let the title lead you to think that there will be more in this series. There might not be. I’m definite about my indecision. But that’s not what I really wanted to say.
WordPress
Now that I’ve gotten into WordPress and discovered in the repository plug-ins for just about every application I’ve ever written in PHP through sheer hard work, I have begun to switch many of my clients (those that aren’t really particular about how their web sites work, but more about how they look) over to this framework. So far I have begun to switch over the Eagle Pass Chamber of Commerce, my own website (this one), the Madexalli Cultural Coffee Bar, Blue Air Man and Candles for Life. At the moment, however, the only live site is my own. The others are either waiting for approval or content or both.
Madexalli
Madexalli is very close to being complete, but is lacking photos and words and some direction. I’m thinking it should have a list of all the various items they sell such as their coffees, teas, drinks, bakery items and lunch specialties. They also sell music, and so I need to list the various titles they sell. But all that needs to be supplied to me.
BlueAirMan
Blue Air Man is a project long in progress. It’s going to be a store site selling unique gift items to graduates of Lackland Air Force Base. Needless to say, the items they sell are military-type and designed specifically for Lackland (I’m the designer of many of them). The owner is a full-time teacher, though, and so has very little time to work with me to populate the site and set up all the little things necessary to make e-commerce work.
Chamber of Commerce
The Chamber of Commerce is ready to go live with their new site as soon as we get permission from the board and populate the site with photos of Eagle Pass. It has a calendar of events and membership database, both of which are plug-ins that work pretty well and much like the applications I wrote using CodeIgniter for their previous site. The gut-buster was switching all the data from the membership database to the plug-in. That took some time and a whole lot of typing.
SellItNow! Eagle Pass
One more site I’m working on is for myself and will be a classified advertisement site for use by residents of Eagle Pass (and surrounding smaller communities). I see it as an alternative to what they call a newspaper in this town and the local radio station’s compro y vendo (buy and sell) show that invites callers to try and describe the items they are selling. I figure I can offer them the opportunity to display their items using photos as well as descriptions. I found a cool plug-in for that one too.
Graphic & Web Designer, Sole Proprietor.
