The Wine Coach

This project was subcontracted to me by someone who was working with the end-client. The design was completed by someone else, and I was asked to implement it, using the Thesis theme for WordPress.

Thesis

This design was fairly easy to complete with the Thesis them – only one bit of server-side code was needed to swap the position of the navigation menu. Everything else was completed by using the built-in options panels, and styling the output with CSS.

Accessibility

Part of the design called for a form to be included that enabled subscriptions to a newsletter. To ensure that users could access this with non-visual user-agents, label elements were added, then hidden in the visual view. JavaScript was added for those that support it to add and remove the default data hint which is the label content.

Domain Move

Probably the trickiest bit of the project came when the end-client decided they wanted the site to live at thewinecoach.com instead of thewinecoach.tv which is what it had been developed for. Within the database export, not only did all the references to the domain had to change, but certain values relating to folder and file paths also had to be configured (as the WordPress files were no longer stored in a subfolder), before being reimported into the database for the new site.