Working on the Yell.com google gadget was an enjoyable experience. I knew very little about the google gadget API before I started and this made the process all the more rewarding.
Archive for March, 2009
Yell.com google gadget07
Mar
Noelle Schrieber05
Mar
Noelle Schrieber is an artist who specialises in fine art, painting and photography. She came to me in 2007 wanting a new website on which to exhibit her portfolio. My main aim whilst developing during this project was to make her art the focus of the site. For this reason the homepage and many of the other primary pages in the site consist simply of a gallery of images. For this same reason the colour palette used throughout the site is very neutral so as not to detract from the bold imagery in the paintings and photos.
This website is special for me because it was the first time that I had ever had a go at creating a CMS. Although relatively basic the custom PHP CMS enabled Noelle to login to her website, upload new paintings and enter the details about them. She could then remove/edit existing paintings and re-order the galleries using drag and drop. This was valuable for me as I learned a great deal about PHP and MySQL in the process.