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- Project Type: Blog
- Platform: wordpress
- Responsibilities: Rebuild existing site, change platform, install CMS, create new design.
- Objectives: Update existing site to fit more with an island feel.
- Technologies: Photoshop, xHTML, CSS, PHP, Javascript
- Status: Completed
- http://www.gotoculebra.com
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Goto Culebra.com is travel information site for the Island of Culebra off the coast of Peurto Rico. I had alot of fun doing this site, it initially didn't look anything like the outcome and I really got to exercise my photoshop skills here. The entire layout was pretty much made from scratch. The perspective is as if you are looking down at the ground. Now some of the items may seem out of place, not matching the perspective, this is not my fault, the client wanted to add certain elements regardless of if they were proportional to the other elements of the site. I wanted to try to make each graphic element have a purpose. The filofax serves as a welcome message, slideshow and the post it not links to a few external areas using Wordpress's blog roll. If you scroll down the post card is the main content area of the site. Beyond that is a nifty pair of sun glasses and map made in Photoshop, the sunglasses display the weather in its reflection, realtime from Culebra, PR. The map serves more as a graphical item but also links directly to an interactive maps section.
The interactive maps on the site were made from scratch in Javascript. They link directly to blog posts. A custom write panel was created so that an admin could add blog posts and locations that correspond to areas on the map.