Blood Arts
Background
Blood is an events-based membership initiated and run by the Contemporary Arts Society. It is a means for amateur and professional collectors of contemporary art to come together and share ideas and thoughts during regular events that are advertised via the website.
I was approached by a colleague to undertake the development of the site for him, based on his designs. As the site wasn't hosted on Microsoft servers, I decided to build it in PHP rather than simply HTML so that I could create separate include files for the header and footer and certain content areas, allowing for ease of maintenance.
How the site works
The site was my first, and to date only, foray into PHP, but the only relatively complex functionality was required on the contact and membership pages, which needed to email the form details on each of those pages to a Blood representative. They didn't end up requiring any database functionality for storing those form details but a substantial proportion of the pages required updateable content. Rather than building a content management system for such a small site, I created HTML include files specifically for the updateable areas of the pages, which meant that they could keep the site looking fresh with minimal HTML knowledge, without having to understand the server side code.