JMDesign Website Technologies
Written on August 26, 2009 at 6:03 pm, by Jeff McIntosh
Category: Web links
In the spring of 2009 I created a new website for JMDesign and every time I make a new site I am always learning something new by adding a new technology or adapting an old one. Here is a rundown of the technologies I used to create JMDesign.
- WordPress – I used these open source platform to create my Pro Blog. WordPress is the leader in blog development and holds a lot of amazing features.
- Whiteboard WordPress Theme – I used WordPress for my last blog, but one thing that irked me is that it did not match the design of the rest of my site. Whiteboard is a squeaky clean for WordPress that became the foundation of my own JMDesign WordPress theme. I was able to sync in my own style sheets and code.
- Shadowbox.js Media Viewer – The most important part of my website are the videos. They need to play and they need to look great. Shadowbox.js is a stylish AJAX driven media player that floats over your website whenever a video is played.
- JW FLV Media Player – The JW FLV player is one of the best and well supported media players on the web. This player runs in the Shadowbox.js platform and plays my MP4 H.264 video files with ease.
- MySql – With a combined inventory of two hundred clients and projects it only makes sense to keep everything organized in a database. MySql has been my lifesaver and with the help of PHP it is easy to pipe my data into the site.
- PHP – I have been using PHP for years and it does everything I ever wanted it to do.
- FormCheck – I chose MooTools as my JavaScript framework and FormCheck is an elegant AJAX form validation library.
- Google Analytics – Google provides one of the best and free ways to track visitors to your site. Check out my post here on how you can track Shadowbox.js usage using Google Analytics.
by Kina
On October 14, 2009 at 1:34 pm
Thanks for sharing! Very informative stuff tha I’ll be sure to use.