While I was working for Hachette Filipacchi, my main role was to assist with maintaining and the development of the ELLEuk.com site (based in the eZ Publish content management system). As well as upgrading the Content Management System (CMS),  a lot of development work took place on the site. Starting with the ELLE Beauty channel, I developed the PHP for ELLE.tv, In The Mag and the News channel and helped develop the Culture channel. I was also the lead developer on the Catwalk which had a massive increase in page views and unique visitors compared to the previous year. The final development I was involved with was for a new look homepage.

Developments for the site involved utilising the features of the eZ Publish CMS. Presentation logic was all carried out in the SMARTY style templating language eZ Publish uses. As well as this new extensions for the CMS were created to carry out such tasks as bulk image uploading and providing convinient access to custom database logic required on the site. One of the biggest extensions I built during my time there was a Keywording extension to ensure consistency throughout the keywords and to provide an easier interface for both adding keywords to articles and maintaining the keywords themselves.

As well as the redevelopment work, I was tasked with implementing commercial takeovers. These happend on a weekly basis across various pages on the site. I implemented a timed system so that these could go up and come down automatically. The CSS (as well as any necessary javascript and html) was then produced and tested by the client before the takeover went live. There is an example of one of the takeovers produced below.