Archive for October, 2007
Local Motion Campaign for Active Living
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
In addition to the branding of Local Motion, which included a logo and marketing materials, the campaign required a website that would fulfill their unique needs. The clincher for Local Motion was that they would have many partners who would ideally be able to create their own events on the website and give the administrators at Local Motion the ability to review the content before it was published.
The multi-level user accounts allow them to create accounts for those partners that allows them to create a draft but not publish, leaving it up to Local Motion to approve and publish the information.In addition to the blog engine, we created an interface with Google Maps that allows users to select a beginning and an end for a walk that they’d like to go on, or type in their own address and get a distance and route between two points. Visit Local Motion.
Blog as Content Management System
Monday, October 22nd, 2007 |
We’ve all heard of blogs. What you may not know is that a blog is a database-driven content management system that, with some agile programming, can be bent to your very will. Using WordPress as the base, we applied it’s web-based administrative area, categories, and multi-level user accounts to make a website for the Charlottesvillle Local Motion campaign.
Although it’s in a “blog”, the content is pulled into the Local Motion website on the fly and reads just like text on any normal web page. The beauty of this is that there is a web-based interface that the client can use to update their own pages, with no web-programming knowledge or any special software. (more…) |