So, nearly a month ago I’ve deployed online with the COST Workshop Barcelona 2013 event website, prepared in a fast-and-furious mode since deadline was approaching and the number of things to do for the committee where overwhelming, so they’ve asked me to help.
To realize that I’ve relied on an old friend of mine, WordPress, that once more confirmed to be a perfect choice to have good-looking and functional, vital, websites.
For the template I choose the free (as in speech) Squirrel theme released from InkThemes, which is a feature-reduced version of the full premium themes. But this didn’t worried me since the good design and code it sports in the free version. Also the static home page layout of the theme is really eye-catching with the right choice of opening images.
A design aware use of the widgets and some plugins made the rest possible and easily re-doable. Among those plugins I find that worth a mention are:
- Analytics360, for a graphical view of our visitors thanks to Google Analytics;
- Antispam Bee, to protect posts against spam in the comments;
- Contact Form 7 (which hasn’t been implemented);
- HumansNotBots – Easy, Accessible Email Cloaker, a nice tool to publish email addresses and protect them from robots in search for spammable mailboxes;
- MapPress Easy Google Maps, to integrate a map of the event location thanks to Google Maps;
- Simple Google Sitemap and Google XML Sitemaps for search engines usage.
Hope you are enjoying this “disclosure” 😉