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Website (re)Design – WordPress, NextGEN, Galleria & jQuery
If you are a new visitor, welcome to our site! If you’ve been here before, you’ve probably noticed that we’ve recently changed a few things around here.
After nearly a year with the previous web design, it was time to refresh our website with a new look.
Still built on top of WordPress, our favorite content management platform, this new web design contains a some new features, such as a brand new custom photography portfolio display for our McAllen Photography pages. What started out as an experiment with Galleria (a Javascript image gallery written in jQuery) and NextGEN Gallery (a WordPress photography gallery plugin) turned into a very easy to manage, and cool-looking (non-Flash based), photography portfolio. The best part is that it is all controlled through the WordPress administration. It could probably use some additional tweaking to be a truly great feature, but it does a good job right now. You can see an example running on our McAllen Wedding Photography portfolio page.
It’s always a welcome challenge in web design to find the perfect balance between function and form. Over the 12+ years that I’ve been developing websites I’ve found that I really love to make a website as simple as possible for the end user, while retaining powerful features and functions for a site administrator. That’s one of the primary reasons I love WordPress so much. It’s very balanced in terms of it’s power and simplicity.
I hope you find this website visually appealing and intuitive to use. Please feel free to comment on anything you see here! And as always, think of A Divine Studio for your Pharr, Edinburg, Mission and McAllen web design, development and creative needs.
