Armstrong Keyworth

Brief: Armstrong Keyworth is London based interior design firm which offers a wide range of services from informal design consultancy to full project co-ordination including building work, planning, lighting, decoration and furnishing. The client required a simple yet elegant design with a strong administration dashboard and WordPress just fits the bill right. The site home page is crafted in a way to use dynamic data from a WordPress page and present it aesthetically.

Technical aspects: WordPress as a CMS, jQuery for front-end design (on homepage), themed version of Next-Gen Gallery for portfolio section. Launch Site » www.armstrong-keyworth.co.uk

Spans Envirotech

Brief: Spans Envirotech is a Delhi based firm which provides planning, design and construction management services to meet the water and wastewater needs of municipalities, public agencies, private developers and industrial firms. A simple, modest and minimalistic design was the idea behind this microsite. This project uses WordPress as the underlying CMS and the theme is carefully designed to meet specific client requirements of a dynamic sidebar. The sidebar can be customised on a page by page basis through the admin dashboard. The homepage uses a custom template which draws its content from the about page and the two most recent blog posts.

Technical aspects: WordPress as a CMS, jQuery for front-end design for fading images in header, client side sortable table (jQuery Tablesorter 2.0) and a download tracker. Launch Site » spans.co.in

My Mentors

Brief: My Mentors is one of the fast emerging overseas education consulting partners for Indian students who wish to complete their graduations /Post graduation courses abroad. Its a simple microsite with a 3 column layout for the home page and a 2 column layout for inside pages. The top menu is created using WordPress functions and is styled as a tab. It also has a scrolling news section which is dynamically created using any internal of external RSS feeds.

Technical aspects: WordPress as a CMS, use of RSS news feed scroller (google gadget) to display scrolling news items which could be RSS feed of wordpress posts or any external RSS news feeds. Launch Site » mymentors.in

Surrrprise.com

Brief: Surrrprise.com is a boutique group of event planners who execute some unique personalized ideas. They have tailored plans for various occasion and ideas that suit the clients taste and budget. This WordPress theme allows the user to to change the background image of the site on the fly through the dashboard.

Technical aspects: WordPress as a CMS. Launch Site » surrrprise.com

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Stockmarket (NSE) Technical Charts

Brief: This is a sophisticated charting tool capable of managing huge amount of data. The scope os this is not only the display, but also a robust backend to manage stock market data. Broadly, this project includes – 1) The frontend charting tool and its customization; 2) Feeding the charting tool with actual data on a dynamic basis parameter selection by the user and 3) Management and auto update of actual stock market data. This tool is completely self driven in a sense that it automatically downloads end of day data, every day evening from the stock market servers, parses it and stores it in an internal database.

Technical aspects: PHP, MySQL, JavaScript and HTML Canvas element (for freehand drawing on chart) Launch URL » stockmarketindian.com/technical_charts

WordPress Plugin: WP Web Scraper

WP Web Scraper is a simple, robust and scalable web scraper designed for WordPress. This is a plugin which lets you add external data to you WordPress posts, pages or sidebar with the use of simple CSS selectors. This is a one of its kind plugin and has been featured as one of the top 85 wordpress plugins for blogging journalists. WP Web Scraper is released as a free open source plugin and you can download it from the official WordPress plugin repository.

Technical aspects: WordPress Plugin architecture, core PHP, phpQuery, Regex and HTML parsing in PHP Plugin page in WordPress plugin repository » wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-web-scrapper

WordPress Plugin: Flash Photo Gallery

Flash Photo Gallery is a simple implementation of a Flash Photo Gallery shipped with Adobe Photoshop CS2 as a ‘Flash Web Photo Gallery’. Its a straightforward flash gallery plugin for aesthetic display of image gallery in WordPress. The plugin is quite popular and has been downloaded X times till date. Flash Photo Gallery is released as a free open source plugin and you can download it from the official WordPress plugin repository.

Technical aspects: WordPress Plugin architecture, core PHP, XML and Flash. Plugin page in WordPress plugin repository » wordpress.org/extend/plugins/flash-photo-gallery

Google Gadgets and UWA widgets

Google Gadgets are miniature objects made using the google gadget framework and offer cool and dynamic content that can be placed on any page on the web. Our team has some of the most famous google gadgets like BSE stock ticker, NSE stock ticker and RSS news feed scroller. All our Gadgets put together receive more then 1.2 million page views every month. These Google Gadgets are designed to enable small and medium sized websites and blogs to insert pieces of dynamic information related to their sites or blogs.

Technical aspects: Google Gadget API, XML, Regex based HTML parsing in code JavaScript. A list of all our Google Gadgets