While I was working for Hachette Filipacchi, my main role was to assist with maintaining and the development of the ELLEuk.com site (based on the eZ Publish content management system). As well as upgrading the Content Management System, 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 channels. I also helped develop the Culture channel. I was also the lead developer on the Catwalk channel 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.
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Archive for November 2009
ElleUK
Skills: CMS, CSS, eZ Publish, HTML/XHTML, Javascript/AJAX, MySQL, PHP, subversion, XML, XSLT
- The ELLEuk.com Catwalk homepage
- Catwalk Channel - Schedule Page
The schedule page on the Catwalk channel of ELLEuk.com
- Catwalk Channel - Show Review Page
The show review page of the Catwalk channel on ELLEuk.com
- ELLE News
The redeveloped News homepage for ELLEuk.com
- ELLE Beauty Channel - ELLE Tests
- ELLE.tv
ELLE.tv with custom Brightcove player
- Christian Dior Takeover on ELLEuk.com
An example takeover from the ELLEuk.com homepage
- Da Corner Takeover
Takeover on the homepage of ELLEuk.com
- L'Oreal Takeover
Takeover on the Beauty Channel of ELLEuk.com
- Peugeot Shopping Takeover
Takeover on the Shopping Channel of ELLEuk.com
Sugarscape
www.sugarscape.comAs well as developing the ELLEuk.com site at Hachette Filipacchi, I also helped maintain and develop the Drupal based sugar magazine website called Sugarscape. This involved ensuring any bugs found on the site were dealt with in a timely manner and also new developments such as the Sugarscape games channel were completed. Other developments included the addition of user galleries and, as with ELLEuk.com, ensuring commerical takeovers went live on the site smoothly.
I was also the technical help on the Sugarscape webchats for the games channel, where celebrities such as Alesha Dixon, Miley Cyrus and The Veronicas had webchats with the site users. This involved ensuring that the webchats themselves went smoothly for both the celebrities and the site editors and also ensuring the webchat transcript was displayed as soon as possible after the end of the webchat.
Skills: CMS, CSS, Drupal, HTML/XHTML, Javascript/AJAX, MySQL, PHP, subversion
- Sugarscape Games Channel
- Example Webchat on Sugarscape
- User Gallery page on Sugarscape
- Disney Takeover
Takeover on the homepage of Sugarscape.com
- Veronica's Takeover on Sugarscape
Homepage takeover on Sugarscape.com
- Twilight Takeover
Takeover on the homepage of Sugarscape
















