For a worship leader I have developed a brand and created an accompanying website to serve as a platform for expressing the importance of Jewish Sacred Music and Cantorial leadership, using audio and text. The site is a “Digital Garden,” which is a variation on a blog and which is designed for an agile approach to content creation.
Solution
- Brand Design: Brainstorming the site mission, followed by branding development including site name, domain, and slogan
- CMS selection: selected with a priority on the end-user
- CMS customizations: edited the core PHP code to enable features that were claimed to work
- Footnotes: Designed and coded a custom footnote technology to avoid blindly linking out to external sites (the way The Guardian does)
- Theme: Selected theme and customized by replacing hard-coded values with CSS variables
- Content: Researched and wrote initial content for site launch, from articles to terms of use pages
- Audio: Recorded and engineered sample audio for the site
- Imagery: Photography and image editing
- Data solution: flat-file, no-database (the CMS default)
- Web Technologies: PHP, HTML, CSS, XML, JavaScript, jQuery, Markdown for content
- CMS: Bludit flat-file CMS
- Hosting: Nginx server on Linux