During spring 2010, the editor in chief of the IDS News was interesting creating an internal story asset management and allocation tool. More over, he wanted the system to be date driven and built upon a blogging platform that most of the staff was already accustomed to using. Having been given a very simplistic design mock up to work from, I generated the XHTML and CSS based on image spec, and negotiated a wordpress system integration such that our code, regardless of future WordPress updates, would still function for years to come.
At present, the system uses the WordPress platform for content publishing purposes, it’s capable of aggregating section specific data, it uses a date driven navigation method for day and week aggregation (accounting for leap year), it provides future story specific deadline information, and it supports full commenting functionality for staff asset management purposes.
Tools Required : PHP, MySQL, XHTML, CSS, Photoshop
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