The Garden’s Kitchen is the brain-child of my long-time client, Ashleigh Hutchison. She recently opened her cooking studio in San Luis Obispo, California and it has quickly taken off! She asked me to create a web site that would be simple and user-friendly and would set her apart from the crowd.
We decided to use the Joomla content management system to make back-end administration easier and to help keep her costs under budget. I also administer the site when she has updates or additions and we seem to be continually evolving the site to meet her current needs.
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Compiles Maui, Hawaii, and surfing news from a variety of sources. The system allows members to comment and vote on stories and may they even submit their own links for consideration by the administrators. Powered by Pligg, it currently only takes about an hour per day to administer.
A much larger vision is in store for the XMaui.com domain, but the new version is still in it’s planning stages.
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A free community-driven surf report site, OMaui.com is my personal Frankenstein project that has evolved over seven years to whatever it is today. The site offers a daily surf summary and forecast, weather information, and a lot of other nerdy stuff. But most importantly, OMaui offers Maui surfers and all other wave riders an online community.
The site is visited by hundreds on a daily basis and by the thousands during the good swells. I’m proud to say that the site has grown in popularity almost entirely through word-of-mouth and has earned the coveted “home page” status for many loyal members.
The site is structured by Joomla, a free content management system. Several heavily customized third-party modules add functionality to the site, but most of the tools are custom PHP coded applications that I have developed over the years.
Countless hours have been spent nurturing the site and it has provided me with many years of enjoyment.
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