After the recent success of Wildewood, I was asked to design a site for another homeowner’s association: Tree Tops Neighborhood. Converting documents to digital format and archiving them online would be the main goal. The value-added to most association residents is obtaining a document and searching anytime and anywhere; no special requests. Go online, download the PDF, and search for whatever you need to know.

The core of the website is built with WordPress since it provides a good balance of capability and simplicity. Even though a site may start with a few requirements, that can easily change with time. Keeping design simple and flexible in the beginning is a key to enabling rapid changes in the future. The template itself is an amalgam of modified CSS and newly-coded PHP. Again, not too much PHP. The header is a custom graphic of which many iterations were created. However, the solution with the most appeal had the fewest colors.

The template and style sheets were thoroughly tested with Internet Explorer and Firefox. After hosting set-up and configuration, I uploaded the site and it went live the evening of February 11, 2008.

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