The site features multi-language support and all pages are editable in these languages. It is a major step forward for the marina owners who can now login and edit their information, add events, news and photographs of their marinas.

The site was built using the Codeigniter framework in fully valid XHTML/CSS with a sprinkling of jQuery to brighten things up!

Thanks to the fantastic Wordpress software we have been able to build a feature rich, easy to use, search engine friendly and up to date website in no time at all.

Wordpress has come a long way since the last time I looked at it a few years ago. In those days it was pretty much exclusively a blogging tool. These days however, with so many additional add ons and settings, it is possible to create sites to fit a wide range of specifications.

The features I really like and have used on the new site include:

• SEO enhancements using All in One SEO Pack
• Auto XML sitemap generation using the highly configurable Google XML sitemaps plugin
• Super fast, configurable caching with WP Super Cache
• And a neat little portfolio plugin which automatically generates thumbnails of the website

Whilst I love Wordpress for my own personal use, I regard myself as being reasonably tech savvy. I still won’t be building all my future client’s websites with Wordpress as I think the admin side of things is just a little too bloated for basic websites. Yes, it is possible to lock down a lot of the functionallity and amke the back end more simple, but all the same most clients I deal with want something really simple!