Southern Living Plants
Southern Living® is a premier lifestyle and magazine of the South and the 6th largest monthly consumer magazine in the USA.
Project Summary
Southern Living Plant Collection is an innovation from Plant Development Services, Inc. and is a trademark of Time, Inc. Optera Creative, an Alabama Graphic Design Company, contacted anjstudio to help them redesign and develop a more complex website for their client, Southern Living. We handle most of Optera Creative's development work so we gladly accepted their request and assistance. Besides Southern Living redesign, we also handled another sister site of PDSI - Encore Azalea.
We utilized Joomla CMS at the request of Optera Creative for the Southern Living website. They are very comfortable with Joomla and it helps the end-client be able to manage the content, form submissions and images. We were given the Photoshop PSD file and went ahead and created the front-end development using XHTML/CSS. Some of the additional modules include a jQuery image slideshow, location service implementation provided by Know Where, SEO friendly URL's, Forum, RSS Syndicator, custom Newsletter Management, custom CSV Import Tool and a download manager for their images.
The last thing that we implemented was a custom mobile theme for the iPhone and BlackBerry platform.