Julie Marchese and her friends needed a site to promote their sports club for female athletes in the Portland, Maine area.
I came up with a site that, in addition to the usual WordPress wonderfulness:
- Is a fully-fledged membership solution.
Users can register for different annual programs via a form that then processes payments and makes administrating and tracking members a breeze. - Members get access to:
- a members-only forum
- event calendar
- photo gallery and
- blog
- There’s also a simple store area that uses PayPal add-to-cart buttons and lightroom to display the product photos.
The godaddy.com hosting came with limited email space so I also set up Google Apps for the account so everyone can use Gmail with its vast free storage for their @shejams.com emails.
This is an example of a site that uses plugins to take WordPress from beyond its usual scope of being just blog software to being a full-on “Web 2.0” Content Management System and have it all manageable through WordPress’ famously simple-to-use, back-end admin panel.
If you’re interested in hearing more about which plugins I used, just use the comment form below. If you’re interested in having me do it all for you contact me with the details.
3 comments
Andrea Brown on March 8, 2010
Gwyn was incredibly responsive and listened to our needs! He had immediate turn around and limitless patience with 3 of us three firing off emails to him and me asking for the 4th and 5th time how to do something. (having to ask that many times because I am technologically challenged!)
He offered suggestions, helped design our logo, and presented us with demos as to what the website would look like with the features we wanted and tweaked as we asked, as well as provided a much needed tutorial.
Gwyn gave us an estimate and came in under budget! He has also made himself available going forward.
I highly recommed Gwyn both for the work that he does and for the personal and professional service that he does it with!!!
Julie Marchese on March 8, 2010
Gwyn has been wonderful to work with. Very professional and incredibly responsive! He worked with three of us who have full time jobs trying to get this new website up fast and we were not able to move as quick as he did.
He was able to accomplish what was in our minds by reading our minds!! AMAZING! I would recommend Gwyn highly!
THANK YOU FOR AN INCREDIBLE WEBSITE!
Mark Morrison on May 18, 2010
Well put together membership website, good work