The project involved replacing a rather static ‘old school’ site for Big Picture Triathlon Coaching. Initial discussion took place and then a concept was agreed upon. The concept was then turned into a theme and the theme was populated. I also did training on the site so that Big Picture now have the ability to control the site completely.

It’s another WordPress powered site but the blog side of it is really restricted to some training advice at the moment. Thanks must go to the lovely michelledancer for some wonderful WordPress coding work – things have been really busy so I’ve actually had to outsource some work! If all outsourcing goes as well as this project then I hope I get the chance to do it lots more!

And this brings me on to another self employed web worker lesson – it’s ok to say you don’t have time! I have a lot in the air at the moment with some exciting projects on the go and a lot more on the horizon. So when it got to the crunch I realised I just didn’t have time to do all that I had said I would. Obviously it means that profit margins etc aren’t as great but to be honest as long as I pay the bills I don’t really mind about that.

I am pleased with the result. I revamped the header but kept it with the feel of the old site and kept the Triathlon icons. The theme has a ‘sporty’ feel to it and the featured content scrolling images are complemented by the scrolling latest news feature in the sidebar. The latest forum posts are provided by an rss feed taken from the YABB Forum and provide even more regularly updated content.

The committee page is one of the key customisations.

Feedback from the Triathlon club has been very positive as they have been provided with a fresh site that looks as if it is used, something the previous site did not.

If you would like a similar customisation, or a completely unique site design please do get in touch.

You can view the site at www.sheffieldtriclub.com

Jon Cooper is a writer from Sheffield.

He asked for a blog to put his scribblings on.  Not literal scribbling.  Computer scribbling. So Hoyland Web Services set him up a WordPress Blog using some nice textures we found and a few icons from various places.

The theme has widgets for the sidebars and validates to xhtml transitional.  The site is hosted by hoyland and I like it.

You can view the site at www.joncooper.info.

Many thanks go to the artistic genius of Jonny Evans who supplied the artwork.

Ali Johnson is a Christian speaker and evangelist type guy who asked for somewhere to put his writings and his thoughts.  It’s a basic two column blog with a fully widget driven sidebar and a few nifty plugins.

The site is valid XHTML Strict and CSS 2.1 and uses the Fontburner Plugin to create the headers in the main posts and the sidebars and Twitter for WordPress for the Twitter Feed.  A quick note on the Twitter Feed – at the moment it’s being taken from the Natwivity which is a special advent Twitter account telling the Nativity story using Twitter technology – the Christmas story in 140 characters.  If you’re on Twitter you should follow along – it starts today!