Rogan Coles

PROJECT: The Lost Years Project TYPE: WordPress based Presentation/Blog website SUMMARY: This website started off as static HTML website. While using the same theme and look, the owner wanted the website converted to a dynamic CMS based website. The platform chosen was WordPress. Based on the theme’s original design and look, there wasn’t much more to do. The theme’s original designer had done a pretty good job in developing and building a complete website – including presentation pages, the blog pages, contact page and so forth. The theme’s included CSS stylesheet made it fairly easy to convert the original HTML theme into a WordPress based theme. Initially, all we needed to do was to create the required pages as per WordPress’s CODEX recommendations. This we did. The next and hardest part was creating and putting together the upgraded theme’s functions.php page. This is the page where the site is literally “pulled” together and gives it much of its functionality. After this, we needed to either employ several “off-the-shelf” plugins or, to create our own – this to give up some back-end functionality. Once we had the WordPress framework up and running, the next thing was to populate the theme with the owner’s content. Once done, we now have what we have. The site can be viewed at this link: https://lostyears.argent.photos In extending this theme and project further, we are now in the process of adding a shopping cart. This shopping card will be based on the Woocommerce plugin. These part of the brief will include developing and putting together product content, setting payment gateways and modifying various pages related to the sales, checkout and follow up processes. For more details, please contact me at-