Archive for November 2009

November 1st, 2009

ElleUK

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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November 1st, 2009

Sugarscape

www.sugarscape.com

As 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.

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