The all new marbleblue.co.uk is created using Wordpress and a customised version of the Studiopress Lifestyle theme.

This is the second version of the site for which the original was a ASP.Net 3.5 and C# based site, with a seperate Wordpress blog.

Firstly, id like to say a big thank you to James Reeve, a respected network guru, work colleague, and webmaster of singleandflirty.com, for drawing my attension to Brian Gardners Studiopress Wordpress themes. Some of these themes have been SEO optimised by Joost de Valk, a well known Wordpress ninja! After looking into these, I decided to create the all new marbleblue website directly from Wordpress – saved me a bunch of coding and optimising too! This is the first time I have really played with Wordpress, and I have to admit, it has been great fun! It has also inspired to me look deeper into the massive subject that is SEO.

If you are starting off with Wordpress, I recommend having a look at the video by Matt Cutt’s at this years Wordcamp as a starter for ten.

You may also find it worthwhile looking at John Chow’s website, and downloading and flicking through his free ebook. John Chow is a very successful and well known blogger, in terms of generating traffic and money if that is what you are interested in.

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Contribution: Everything, from start to finish!

URL: www.marbleblue.co.uk

Technologies: Wordpress 2.8+, Wordpress plugins, php, mysql, customised (by me) Studiopress Lifestyle Theme.

By the way, for hosting, I am using and I can highly recommend, Rick Stevens’ Soft Sys Hosting.

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- Install the Video Quicktags plugin by the legend that is Viper (viper007) – dont forget to make a donation

Without using this plugin, and by adding the embeding code directly, I had nothing but a ton of script errors in IE, but as always Firefox was perfect!

- Create a Featured Video category.

- Set the area on your homepage where you want your videos to be displayed, to hit posts from this category.

- Add a post.

- Within the post, create a Custom Field. Call it for example, Video_Link, and for the value, add a quicktag to the video you want to display, e.g.


[ viddler id=bc656bb0&w=280&h=166 ]


where w is the width and h is the height.

- Open home.php in the wordpress editor, and locate the area which you have set to display your featured videos.

- Comment out the following:

<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
<? php the_content_limit(80, ""); ?>

- Add replace with:

// If post contains a vid_link custom field
<?php $vid_link = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'Video_Link', $single = true);
if($vid_link !== '') {
// first display the title
?>
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
<?php
       // Get the contents of the value of the custom field and apply Quicktag filter
$vid_link = apply_filters('the_content', $vid_link);
      // display video
echo $vid_link;
}
?>

You might notice that if you have other plugins installed, such as TweetMe or Share/Save buttons, unless you have unchecked the ‘display on home page’ checkbox on the plugin settings, this will also be displayed with the video (from the apply_filters command), so I would recommend checking this option to hide them in the home page.

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iPoint has three main areas:

1. iPoint for Clients as part of master vend contracts, iPoint is used in a number of large NHS trusts for accessing invoices, ordering and filling shifts and vacancies, and managing electronic timesheets.
2. iPoint for Candidates accessing payslips, managing electronic timesheets, managing availability, and search and booking into shifts.
3. iPoint for Secondary Agencies accessing cascaded shifts, and managing and placing candidates.

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Contribution: Requirements gathering, creative design, code structural architecture, database architecture, project management, design and development, syntax and code block testing, end user training and ongoing maintenance and management.

URL www.ipointweb.net

Technologies VB.Net, ASP.Net, CSS (floating DIV construction), HTML, Telerik UI Control Suite, SQL Server 2005 and linked SQL Server (Tempest Payroll System, and Greatplains Invoice System), linked Sybase ASA (IQX Recruitment Solution) Database and Adobe Fireworks.

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Contribution: Requirements gathering, creative design, design, project management, development, testing and end user training.

URL internal only.

Technologies Sharepoint Wss 3.0, C# and Adobe Fireworks.

Custom webparts For searching active directory, and editing contact details.

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Contribution: project management, analysis, design, development (working with a designer), syntax and code block testing, ongoing code and system maintenance and updates and feature enhancements.

URL www.metrodomegroup.com/Extranet/

Technologies VB 6.0, ASP, HTML, CSS, Javascript, SQL Server 2000 Database and Adobe Fireworks.

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Contribution: project management, analysis, design, development (working with a designer), syntax and code block testing, ongoing code and system maintenance and updates and feature enhancements.

URL www.metrodomegroup.com

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Contribution: development team member, syntax and code block testing, ongoing code and system maintenance and updates and feature enhancements.

URL www.bva.org.uk

Technologies VB 6.0, ASP, HTML, CSS, Javascript, SQL Server 2000 Database and Adobe Fireworks.

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Technologies VB 6.0, ASP, HTML, CSS, Javascript, SQL Server 2000 Database and Adobe Fireworks.

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Contribution: project management, analysis, design, development (working with a designer), syntax and code block testing, ongoing code and system maintenance and updates and feature enhancements.

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Technologies VB 6.0, ASP, HTML, CSS, Javascript, SQL Server 2000 Database and Adobe Fireworks.

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Contribution: Working in a team of three (project manager, graphic designer and myself the developer), initial concepting, research, analysis and design, initial development.

URL www.screeninvite.co.uk

Technologies VB 6.0, ASP, HTML, CSS, Javascript, SQL Server 2000 Database and Adobe Fireworks.

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