Greater Phoenix Convention & Visitors Bureau

Greater Phoenix Convention & Visitors Bureau - Homepage template + View Gallery (8 images)

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Employer: BarkleyREI

Year: 2009

Vertical: Tourism

Project Scope: Full site redesign

Responsibilities:

  • Attended meetings such as design comp and wireframe reviews and provided valuable technical feedback to the team throughout the lifecycle of the project.
  • Template coding/front-end programming (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, cross-browser debugging, SEO and accessibility).
  • CMS integration into REIgnition CMS (template creation, content mapping, XSLT transformations, dynamic navigation, RSS feeds, news results, etc).
  • Front-end coding and XSLT for attraction/dining/lodging/package/venue/services results and detail pages as well as skinning of interactive map application, trip planner AJAX functionality and skinning, front-end for ratings & reviews, dynamic image galleries, etc.
  • Google Mashup integration.
  • Maintenance & updates.

Site Features:

  • Social media integration:
    • YouTube, Twitter, Blog, and Flickr feeds on the homepage via JavaScript/JSON.
    • Photo and YouTube galleries presented in sidebar carousels (opening into lightbox) throughout the site.
  • Google mashups on attraction results and details pages.
  • Progressive enhancement with CSS3 scattered throughout the site (text-shadow, box-shadow, border-radius)
  • Unique Trip Planner functonality in an overlay loaded via AJAX.
  • Multiple color themes based on site section.

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Note: All screenshots provided are shown as originally coded or last maintained by myself. Actual live websites, in many cases, will differ as clients and/or third parties make changes over time. Sample code available to prospective employers upon request.