Apprentices for Business

January 11th, 2012

Brief:
Implement a network of mini-sites for Apprentices for Business (London Apprenticeship Company), each minisite to list apprenticeships (and display locations on a Google map), allowing potential apprentices to apply for apprenticeships, and provide an admin system to manage the apprenticeship and applications. On behalf of a key client.

Features:
Features developed include:

- WordPress-based network of mini sites with theme customisable (colours, headings, content) by site
- Google Maps integration with apprenticeships appearing on maps with clickable markers.
- Aggregate site (http://www.apprenticesforbusiness.co.uk) with hub theme.
- Custom post types with rich text editing for apprenticeships, with automatic geocoding of postcodes
- Custom shortcodes for unique styling of each college site
- Domain mapping so that each individual site has a unique URL
- Automatic setup of new sites, reducing leadtime for minisite creation

Admin-side:
- developed a document upload plugin, categorising files by months.
- plugin to get CSV of all users

Technologies used:
Wordpress, HTML 5, CSS, JQuery, PHP, MySQL, Photoshop, XML, Google Maps API

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