michaelbain

michaelbain in conjunction with pixelmagic has successfully completed a website redo project for The Federation of Unions of South Africa (FEDUSA).

Powered by WordPress and extensively configured and customised for FEDUSA, the site boasts the following features:

• A content management system with which FEDUSA can manage their own content, documents and press releases
• An admin managed calendar
• An admin managed newsletter subscription service to collect newsletter subscribers and send out newsletters to them
• Facebook integration
• Automatically rendered navigation, layout and widgets into the theme designed by pixelmagic
• A complete custom plugin was developed to generate the horizontal unpacked page map in the footer. The administrator can determine how many levels deep need to be unpacked, which pages need to be exclude and how many columns wide the map must be before it wraps to another line

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michaelbain has successfully added an enhancement to the Vet2PetNet website.

As an enhancement to the michaelbain-developed online store, we have added an automatically generated XML feed to the Vet2PetNet website.

This XML feed is automatically generated daily, by a PHP script, from the product catalogue database on the site. The XML feed is generated in accordance with the Bid or Buy feed specification and is read and loaded by Bid or Buy on a nightly basis, making the Vet2PetNet products available for purchase on Bid or Buy.

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michaelbain has successfully completed a custom developed PHP, MySQL and AJAX driven website for www.dunns.co.za

Dunns provided the design concept and michaelbain implemented the concept and added functionality that allows Dunns to manage their own site, going forward, negating the need to contract a webmaster in future to make changes to their current content.

The site boast the following features:

• A templating system, rendering all pages and content consistently across the site
• A custom content management and administration interface allowing Dunns to manage their own site content
• An image-splash front page, managed through the admin interface
• A fashion catalogue picker that renders chosen Flash flipbooks or makes chosen PDF catalogues available for download, with an archive list, all managed through the admin interface
• A database driven AJAX store locator,  managed through the admin interface
• A custom contact us page, with Facebook fan and stream integration, managed through the admin interface

More site features are planned for the future!

The site was developed on a very reasonable budget and within a very short development period.

michaelbain has successfully created a custom web application for www.boardconnect.co.za

Some of the custom coded functionality includes:

• user registration and registration verification
• user authentication and login account management
• user profile creation and editing – multiple sections and related data
• a templating system that seperates design and logic. (pixelmagic, who did the graphical design, really liked this as they could edit the template files as flat html files, without seeing or understanding the logic)
• a complete admin interface to manage site settings and view created profiles
• admin-user management, by admin (adding / deleting /editing – with email activation of added admin accounts)
• a complex AJAX search builder for searching profiles and matching them to available board positions
• Skype and Linked-in integration

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michaelbain successfully completed a WordPress installation and modification for www.coralstephens.com.

Services provided includes:

• Installing and configuring the WordPress base.
• Live-move of the site from the development environment.
• Utilisation of the michaelbain-developed get-post-image plugin to place thumbnails next to post excerpts on the home page.
• Theme modifications to ensure post excerpt pulled from posts containing galleries do not incorrectly render the gallery shortcodes as displayed CSS text. (This is a WordPress “gallery” bug that inserts CSS text into posts).

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michaelbain has successfully completed a dynamic website project  for Highland Country Weddings in conjunction with pixelmagic and laurenwilson.

The website features a WordPress base with custom theme and plugin modifications.

Highland Country Weddings can manage their own blog and site content and receive user input through a custom contact form.

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michaelbain, in conjunction with pixelmagic has completed a development project for www.vet2petnet.co.za

The project involved an e107 content management system install and configuration as well as a significant custom portion for the online shop.

Vet2PetNet is a full portal with forums, private messaging, blogs and much more.

The online shop incorporates  categorised browsing, a shopping cart and checkout that accepts secure credit card transactions.