Sapphire Beach Vacation Club

My Role

CSS, Design, WordPress, XHTML

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The Sapphire Beach Vacation Club is a site that I developed for my girlfriendâ€™s father. He has two condos in St. Thomas, and he wanted a website to help him advertise the condos.

This was the first site that I have developed that is completely powered by Wordpress. Iâ€™ve heard so many great things about it being used as a CMS, so I figured now was the time to start.

It was a dream to work with. I used the Page functionality to control all of the site.

The Design

The site is based on a 5-column, 150px wide grid. This was the first site that I have ever strictly adhered to that. It definitely makes adding things like pullquotes and images easier because then you know what widths you have to work with.

When I first thought about the design, for some reason I instantly thought about a polaroid. Using a brush in Photoshop, I was able to create the tilted polaroid affect. Then I used the right hand column to have images of the properties that open up in a lightbox.

I think some of the content formatting still needs some work, but overall Iâ€™m pretty happy with the site.

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Hi, I’m Trevor Davis

I’m a 25 year old Front-End Developer living in Arlington, VA. I work full-time at Viget Labs and freelance on the side.

I specialize in CSS, HTML, jQuery, WordPress & ExpressionEngine. See more of my work, and then hire me.

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Asides

A Better jQuery In-Field Label Plugin I’ve just written another article for my company blog about using jQuery in-field labels. #
On Flash Ever since the iPad was announced and we were informed that flash wasn’t supported, everyone and their mother has been writing articles about flash. I actually thoroughly enjoyed Jeff Croft’s take. #
The importance of teaching your clients and being the boss Hallelujah: “We may check the site in a dozen browser and operating configurations but the visitors don’t, and never will, we can not forget that…” #
Do what works best for you, not them Cameron Moll reminds us that if something works for you, but isn’t recommended by others, who cares. Do what works best for you. #
Practical Uses of CSS3 I have been so busy with my new job at Viget Labs that I haven’t had any time to blog. I did just write a post on our Viget Inspire blog about Practical Uses of CSS3 though. #