Digitally Refreshing

Over the past few weeks I’ve been working closely with Great Britain rower Pete Reed to build him a website in advance of the Olympics in Beijing this summer. Pete will be competing at the Olympics as part of Great Britain’s flagship coxless four boat. As double World Champion, he’s one of Britain’s brightest medal hopes and needed a website to match.

I’ve designed a website to reflect Pete’s personality and the challenges of his sport, whilst trying to capture the feeling of patriotism and excitement that surrounds the Olympics. His website needed to fulfil a variety of functions including corporate promotion, blogs, galleries and feedback capability, but retain the flexibility to change with him (and to be easily updated) and he moves through the next 4-year training cycle to the 2012 Olympics in London.

I built the site on top of the popular Joomla CMS. It was my first attempt at getting to grips with Joomla (version 1.5) and I had to do a lot of learning! If anyone is interested in dabbling with the popular CMS then get stuck in. The help forums, help pages and general instruction manuals are excellent – much better than they were this time last year!

I think it’s just about there now – check it out at www.petereed.co.uk and let me know what you think!

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