The Link

The project

I was approached by John (the Chippy!) of JTC Carpentry & Construction for a minimal website that would cement his online presence a little, to work alongside his Trust-a-trader profile and facebook pages.

John came up with the logo himself, from which the concept for the site design wasn’t too much of a giant leap.

Quite specifically after a minimal site design, all John wanted was the a page with some information about his company (that he could edit himself), a contact form and a gallery area, to which he could upload images with captions.

The Geek Stuff

The site has been built using WordPress as a content management system (CMS), and my own WP configuration which will allow John to expand the site at a later date should he decide it is appropriate, and I’ve also made use of JQuery and a bunch of plugins, more details on those later…

I’ve based the WP theme around HTML5, but had to buckle a little bit to get the lightbox effect to work correctly, although with a little more attention I think this will run fine with the new HTML 5 block level element as opposed to the generic <div> containers. I’ve also implemented a little bit of PHP based browser sniffing to leave the Javascript off mobile devices, as the MopBox didn’t seem to translate so well to the smaller screen. That’s one for the to-do list right there.

Safe.