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The new web site for my daughter’s school, St Bede’s College has finally gone live today. This is great news! It is a much better looking replacement for their old site and will give a much needed boost to their on-line presence.

Of course, it is built completely on WordPress, with a ton of plugins, a couple of custom widgets, an original design by an ex pupil, and a fairly sophisticated theme by me. I’ll give more details shortly. It should look OK in most browsers. I’d appreciate a comment if anyone spots any major breakage.

The hardest part (or at least the part that took me the most time) was converting their old pages which were written as old-school 90’s stylee static pages — chock full of presentational HTML — into Plain Old Semantic HTML (POSH) ones. As far as I can tell every page nowvalidates as XHTML 1.0 strict.

The small team of staff members who have helped me design the architecture of the site, up date the content, and add new stuff, have done a marvellous job. Especially whilst coping with all that goes on at the beginning of a new school year.

Go check it out.

Our little agency in Paris is hiring one (junior or not) webdeveloper.
Base skillset required: great (X)HTML and CSS (1&2) masteries, some JavaScript to save your life, the ability to sometimes edit things in Photoshop or Indesign, a will to acquire more skills all the time (like learning Flash or Illustrator). Oh yeah, and you have to speak French.
If you have what it takes, or you know someone who might fit the bill, here’s a link to the job offer on Laurent’s blog.

En français :
On embauche !
Si vous aimez travailler dans une équipe convi, que les standards du web et l’accessibilité sont vos amis, que vous êtes débrouillard(e) et que vous êtes capable de vous sortir les doigts du cul plus vite que votre ombre, ou si vous connaissez quelqu’un de ce genre pas si rare, c’est par là.

(Petit coup de gueule au passage, je précise tout de suite pour ceux qui ont du mal à comprendre qu’on recherche un(e) concepteur(trice) web et pas un(e) graphiste : Photoshop, c’est pour les retouches et autres opérations basiques ; on a déjà des graphistes, merci !)