I recently took a very user orientated design, laden with the kind of best practices espoused in Steve Krug’s, “Don’t Make Me Think”, from Photoshop to WordPress. The site’s called Social galaxies, and is run by Ed Thompson, a social media and social games analyst. Interesting commentary and analysis is served up on social games, with a particular emphasis toward the Facebook platform.

As an aside, content from Ed’s old Blogger account was transported via the handy WordPress ‘import’ function. Although imported in an untidy spaghetti like inline code fashion, it certainly relived the burden of having to paste each and every blog post. All in all, it’s a great function for a prolific Blogger based blogger looking to upgrade to a self hosted WordPress outfit.

For the actual programming of the blog, customised template pages were utilised for the ‘about’ , ‘newest’, and ‘archive’ pages. The ‘about’ page saw the use of custom fields to extend WordPress’s CMS capabilities to allow Ed to post both images and descriptions of his favourite books. The ‘newest’ page leveraged a custom page template so as to order and limit the latest posts by date, while similarly, the ‘archive’ displays category headings and related posts by date.

In addition to customised Facebook and Twitter plugins, a user subscription and Google sitemap plugin rounded out the build.

Tags: psd to html, psd to wordpress, seo surrey, social games, wordpress

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