CateLoughran.com

The artist Cate Loughran had a vision to share her art with the world.  I helped her set up a Fickr account where she has been busy uploading images of original paintings, photographs, and mixed-media pieces.  Flickr provided the solution to display her art work, but she wanted a web site as well.

Cate wanted her site to be as easy as possible to maintain, she was not interested in learning a new technology.

the plan

The solution was a WordPress web site that integrates with Flickr.

I created this web site with the use of a few plug-ins which are discussed below. Plugins are tools to extend the functionality of WordPress.

On the home page I installed the Flickr Slideshow Wrapper, a plugin to embed flickr slideshows into your WordPress site. This plugin displays the entire photostream, every image.

I also wanted to take advantage of Cate’s image organization so added the Flickr sets page with the  Page Links To plugin.  (This plugin allows you to point  to a URL of your choosing.)  She had already organized the images into sets on Flickr and so I provided an easy way to access the Flickr page from her site.

On the contact page I used Contact Form 7, simple but flexible.

the result

The result is pretty much a maintenance free web site…all the work is done on Flickr.

Plugins

• Askimet
• Easy Contact
• Google XML Sitemaps