danbhala.com

Since living in New Zealand for the guts of 7 months I have managed to get a little bit of web development work here and there. Back in Queenstown I did some freelance work for local web development company, Kelpdesign. They took me on for a few weeks and I managed to get a few site’s done for them. Nice bunch of people and I’ll never forget William’s two dogs lounging around the office in front of the gas heater.

The first bit of work was a simple Wordpress website for a local tradesman. They were looking for something quick and it was basically a free theme, some plugins and some content put together.

www.queenstownconcretegrinding.com

The second website on the other hand was a custom design by Kelpdesign and it was for a local construction project management company. I had to convert it to xHTML and CSS and set it up as a Wordpress template. This was the first time I have created a template for Wordpress and it really opened me up to what Wordpress could do. I have created so many templates for Joomla in the past and developing one for another CMS was pretty interesting. This Wordpress template had everything from custom fields and separate layouts that could be assigned to specific pages and categories. As well as clever bits of PHP and nice usage of Wordpress’s API.

www.triplestar.net.nz

I just installed the Wordpress app on my iPod touch! It’s a pretty cool app that lets you post to your blog while you are on the move. I’m writing this post on it too.

You can even add images!

I’ve just installed WordPress 2.8 on my server. Now time to build myself a website for a change! Going to try and find a decent way of showing my portfolio and I really want to start blogging; you know, sharing interesting web development ideas & techniques, funny stories, personal thoughts, interesting links and stuff!

Now to try and implement Twitter, Last.fm and other social widgets