Career engineer Michael Bapty required a website to be built in support of his activities as a member of the prestigious Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of BC (as he is standing for election as the body’s vice president this year).

Leveraging the Genesis Framework by StudioPress, michaelbapty.ca has a clear, minimalistic design

We rapidly built a new website with a focus on accessibility, communicating Michael’s message in a crisp, distraction free manner.

michaelbapty.ca was built to be lean and clean – a perfect aesthetic for a member of the engineering profession: I enjoyed working with Michael on this website and wish him luck in his candidacy.

The ease with which an online publishing platform like WordPress allows people to update and manage their website is of course one of their biggest selling points – so it’s particularly satisfying to help people move across to WordPress from a traditional, static-HTML style of website. I had the privilege recently of working with a fantastic local organisation to do just that: Providence Farm.

Static websites are still viable, especially for small 4-5 page “brochure” sites. When they expand beyond that however (currently Providence Farm have in excess of 60 pages) solid, reliable tools such as those provided by WordPress can help to make site management an easy and enjoyable task.

The revised site also includes a document centre, allowing a pool of users – such as directors and senior staff – to upload and share documents amongst one another. Of course, as with all WordPress powered websites, the potential for extending the site and adding new features in the future is ever-present and can be achieved quickly and economically by leveraging the rich and comprehensive toolkit that is built right in to WordPress. [Read more...]