Peter J Harrison » Websites http://www.peterjharrison.me Freelance PHP Web Developer, Designer & WordPress Expert : London & Shrewsbury Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:01:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Crowdfund SW1http://www.peterjharrison.me/2011/12/crowdfund-sw1/ http://www.peterjharrison.me/2011/12/crowdfund-sw1/#comments Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:34:15 +0000 Peter J Harrison http://www.peterjharrison.me/?p=487 Crowdfund SW1 helps you to support struggling charities and community groups in south Westminster. Established in 2011, their unique website enables you to target donations and support to where it is most needed.

You will find a range of exciting community focused projects that need your help. With only a couple of clicks you can help a grass roots local project get off the ground and make a real difference to those it serves. Whether you are an individual, an organisation, school or business, please show your support by making a donation to a project of your choice.

This website has been built on the latest version of WordPress (3.3) and uses a custom theme built from scratch specifically for Crowdfund Sw1′s needs.

The website’s main functionality is its integration with PayPal, which allows user to securely donate to specific projects online. Using the built in WordPress custom post types, each project tracks how many people and how much money has been donated automatically.

Using the WordPress custom meta data for custom post types, the website allows Crowdfund SW1 to embed videos from Vimeo and YouTube by adding the relevant video ID’s to each project.

The website also integrates with MailChimp’s API to add the details of the users who opt-in when donating to a project. This allows Crowdfund SW1 to easily send updates to these people by email, on the progress of the projects they have donated too.

Crowdfund SW1 needs your help and support so go and donate as much as you can over on their website.

Site: crowdfundsw1.com

]]> http://www.peterjharrison.me/2011/12/crowdfund-sw1/feed/ 0 Nest of Boxes : Alex Robertson Set & Costume Designerhttp://www.peterjharrison.me/2010/07/nest-of-boxes-alex-robertson-set-costume-designer/ http://www.peterjharrison.me/2010/07/nest-of-boxes-alex-robertson-set-costume-designer/#comments Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:50:47 +0000 Peter J Harrison http://www.peterjharrison.me/?p=290 Nest of Boxes is a personal portfolio website for Alex Robertson a Set & Costume Designer for both theatre and television, who has worked on such series like ‘Home Time’, ‘Dr Who’ and ‘Gavin & Stacey’.

After growing up in Cornwall and attending Falmouth College of Arts, Alex then trained in Theatre Design at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff, graduating in 2005.

Since then, he has worked on numerous and varied productions around the country and into Europe, based mainly in Cardiff and London, his work has covered many forms of theatre and television, ranging from small to large scale productions, touring pieces, site specific and puppetry works.

This website has been built on the latest version of WordPress (3.0) and has been created using a modified version of the viewport theme to suit Alex’s needs.

The website’s main functionailty is has been created around the native image galleries, built into the core of WordPress. This made it straight forward for Alex to update and add new projects as time goes on.

The website uterlises a number of plugins including jQuery Lightbox For Native Galleries; which makes the native WordPress galleries use a lightbox script called ColorBox to display the fullsize images. It also uses the Search Unleashed plugin; which extends the standard WordPress search to include data from posts, pages, comments, and meta-data, as well as the full content of data inserted by plugins.

Alex currently works freelance so if you like what you see why not get in touch with him over on his website.

Site: nestofboxes.co.uk

]]> http://www.peterjharrison.me/2010/07/nest-of-boxes-alex-robertson-set-costume-designer/feed/ 1 Love For Jewelleryhttp://www.peterjharrison.me/2010/01/love-for-jewellery/ http://www.peterjharrison.me/2010/01/love-for-jewellery/#comments Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:16:31 +0000 Peter J Harrison http://www.peterjharrison.me/?p=263 Love for Jewellery is a website where all of the jewellery is personally designed and hand made making many of the items one off unique pieces. All of the pieces are made up of beads, in various colours, sizes and shapes, which makes them ideal to wear with any outfit for any occassion.

The website is built on the latest version of WordPress and utilises many features of the eShop WordPress shopping cart plugin to provide seamless integration with Paypal. The website also incorporates a blog so that you keep up to date with all the latest news and offers from the site owner.

Other plugins that have been used on this website are:

  • MailChimp List Subscribe Form for the Newsletter sign up oon the sidebar.
  • Twitter Tools for the Twitter feed in the sidebar and the functionality of sending new products and blog articles to Twitter.
  • NextGEN Gallery for the image gallerys on the product page.
  • jQuery Banner which is an extension to NextGen Gallery that I have developed to display the banner on the homepage.

With over 120 different types of jewellery, there is surely something for everybody.  So why not go check out the latest products and special offers and see if you can find something special.

Site: loveforjewellery.com

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Containing information on over 2500 golf courses across the UK, the website brings all social media features to the world of golf, for you to share your thoughts on courses you have played on your travels.

The website was launched last week and is still in its early stages of development with new features being added on a weekly basis. Each course contains contact information, interactive location map, rating features and the ability to leave your thoughts via user comments. There is also a new interactive map search coming soon.

So if you like golf, then let the world know about courses you have played across the UK by signing up for a free account at UK Golf Courses.

Site: uk-golfcourses.com

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The Harrison Family Tree now contains over 3,000 people, some of which can be seen on Harrisons of Liverpool a Family Tree. They have completed several complex Family History and ancestry searches including one which dated back to 896AD, due to a Royal family connection being uncovered.

The Harrisons of Liverpool website was designed on a WordPress MU platform so that an information and business website could be updated using a single admin backend.

If you are interested in your family’s history, why not check it out.

Site: harrisonsofliverpool.co.uk

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