Idiot Banter » Portfolio http://www.idiotbanter.com Nonsense about Front-End Web Development, Music Business and Snowboarding by Matt McCausland Wed, 16 Jun 2010 00:39:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Much More (Music) http://www.idiotbanter.com/2010/05/22/much-more-music/ http://www.idiotbanter.com/2010/05/22/much-more-music/#comments Sat, 22 May 2010 14:06:24 +0000 Matt http://www.idiotbanter.com/?p=663

I wrote the HTML, CSS, Javascript and PHP for this custom WordPress theme for MuchMore.ca (re-branded from Much More Music). This project involved using WordPress as a full site CMS rather than just a blog platform. The site even features a blog within a blog (Daily Fix).

Home Page

Show Page

The Daily Fix

Personality Page

Top Ten Voting

Tour Dates

Search Results

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I cut the XHTML and CSS for this massive Much Music Video Award site. Some highlights include sponsor pop ups in the header, a custom javascript rotator on the home page, skinned sponsor pages, and secure voting pages.

Home Page

Voting Page

Sponsor Page

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I cut the HTML & CSS and turned it into a custom WordPress theme for the Much Music blog. The site was designed by Nick Fox. We had to import all of the old content from a very old Movable Type install; no easy task since we had to maintain SEO as the blog receives tens of thousands of page views some days.

Home Page

Article Page

Search Result Page

Author Page

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I cut the HTML and CSS for this collection of customizable Much Music show pages all based on the same basic layout.

The College Humor Show

One Tree Hill

Paris Hilton’s British Best Friend

Daddy’s Girls

A Shot At Love With Tila Tequila

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A custom WordPress theme for MuchMusic’s The New Music. Designed by Nick Fox, this theme includes a heavily customized home page that displays several posts in a variety of different ways rather than the usual 10 blog posts and a “previous posts” link.

Home Page

Article Page

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Home Page

Blog – Category

Blog – Single Post

Work – Category

Work – Single Post

About Page

Contact Page

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]]> http://www.idiotbanter.com/2008/04/06/love-you-to-death-website/feed/ 0 Photoshop Tennis – Matt Vs. Nairica – Spring & Summer 2007 http://www.idiotbanter.com/2007/09/06/photoshop-tennis-matt-vs-nairica-spring-summer-2007/ http://www.idiotbanter.com/2007/09/06/photoshop-tennis-matt-vs-nairica-spring-summer-2007/#comments Thu, 06 Sep 2007 12:12:00 +0000 Matt http://www.idiotbanter.com/?p=171 This time around we decided to focus on brushes. I think we were excited about desktop wallpaper at the time. It took us forever because no one wants to waste a summer inside but we eventually finished and I think it looks great.

What is Photoshop Tennis?

The Original – From Nairica

Matt

Nairica

Matt

Nairica

Matt

Nairica

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What is Photoshop Tennis?

The Original – A Photo By Nairica

Matt

Nairica

Matt

Nairica

]]> http://www.idiotbanter.com/2007/03/28/photoshop-tennis-matt-vs-nairica-january-to-march-2007/feed/ 0 Much Music BIC Soleil Hot Lists http://www.idiotbanter.com/2000/09/06/much-music-bic-soleil-hot-lists/ http://www.idiotbanter.com/2000/09/06/much-music-bic-soleil-hot-lists/#comments Wed, 06 Sep 2000 12:14:15 +0000 Matt http://www.idiotbanter.com/?p=220 A re-build and re-skin of the Much Music countdown lists. Fans could create and rate lists about anything. The list with the highest ratings won a trip. The back end is ASP.NET and the design was done by Patty Ho. I cut the mock into standards compliant CSS & XHTML. Everything is vertically fluid to allow for user generated content. The screen shots don’t do it justice, and the razors in the top left corner are a flash piece that rotates between colours of razors, that’s why it looks weird sometimes.

Main Page

Login Page

Make A List Page

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