New EndGame PR Website Design

Surely you’ve noticed (unless you have a serious vision problem, or had never actually visited this site before today) that I’ve redesigned the entire EndGame Public Relations website and the Media Relations & SEO PR Blog.  I’ve been working on this for about a week, and made the change for two reasons:

1. This website hadn’t had a true redesign in about two years.  That’s an eternity on the Internet.
2. The original design was done in standard html with no stylesheet.  That means it was a bear to update.  This design is managed using WordPress as a content management system, or CMS.

This design is an improvement over the previous site for several reasons.  First, it’s easier to manage.  Second, content is organized much better because it’s all on the same platform and the front page is a much better design than I had previously.

I’m going to write a post about using WordPress as a CMS in the near future, because it’s very exciting.  For now, however, I’m still working on completely finishing everything on endgamepr.com.  I apologize if you find a loose board or dusty corner here and there, as it’s quite an undertaking to port over a several hundred page site (including news releases).  I hope you enjoy the design, and I encourage your feedback!

[Updated 8/9: I'm continuing to tinker with the design and functionality of the site. One of the main things I'm doing is trying to automate things that I had to do by hand with my html version. The news archives page now updates as soon as a new release is posted. Unfortunately I'm having trouble getting my news page and the news headlines on the front page to do that. WordPress is a great CMS, but it isn't perfect. There's no good way to work with pages like that. If I were to post all of my client news releases on this blog, it would solve the problem, but I really don't want to clog up the blog like that. For now, I have to update those two sections by hand.

Another thing I've done is worked to shorten up the copy on each page of the site, to more closely match the available "white space". I'm quite pleased with my expertise page. I replaced the descriptions of each EndGame PR capability with a small pop up that has that description. As a result, the page is merely a list, but I don't lose the descriptions that some people need.]

[Updated 8/6: The site is more or less completed now. I'm doing some tweaking and trying to figure out how to automate some of the things I had to do by hand on my old html-based website. Now that the database issue is behind me, I'm absolutely loving WordPress as a CMS]

[Updated 8/5: Due to massive slowdowns and database errors, I took the drastic step today of deleting the WordPress database, uninstalling WordPress, and then re-installing everything.  The site is running like a CHAMP now!  I just added what I think might be the last page -- the video podcast client samples page.  I'm going to run through my old site files and see if there's anything I missed.  If not, I can finally remove the "under construction" sign and fully open the site for business!]

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