http://www.openmapscaucasus.org
I created a website for Open Maps Caucasus. They are an Open Source based mapping project in the Caucasus. I met Jeff, the organiser whilst living in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia.
He wanted a clean, and tech-savvy content management system for announcing news about OMC projects. I decided that Wordpress was the tool for the job after doing some research into content management system software. For a small project Wordpress offered the flexibility required and the vast selection of plugins on offer made it relatively easy to accomplish the required functionality.
OMC have since expanded their projects across Georgia into the other major cities. They are a community of people learning about and adopting Open Source technology.
The site featured the following technology:
- Featured content slider
- Tabbed widgetized custom homepage
- Content-management-system implementation of Wordpress
- Recent posts list
- Content-management style sub-page navigation
- Twitter group integration
- Embedded javascript maps
- Localisation – Georgian, Russian and English Languages.
- Custom forms
The system that I built could be easily reused as the basis for other sites with similar requirements. The Wordpress community is very active to help with any queries with the Wordpress software itself and plugins. It’s not as scalable as Drupal and would get unwieldy on bigger projects but Wordpress served well for this project.
I started the site in November 2009 and it was completed by April 2010.
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