Web Development Enters a New Era

Web publishing platforms such as wordpress have reached a maturity level that allows developers to deploy robust websites managed and maintained by clients. The developers role becomes focused on design and implementation, while content development is client driven. Modern libraries like jQuery and the WordPress plugin mechanism mean that ideas and projects that used to taked days or weeks to implement and debug now take just moments to install and configure.

This website is a perfect illustration of the power of a modern wordpress website. For example, check out the page that lists Websites by Earthbound – this page incorporates several plugins to provide a beautiful flash slideshow (try the full screen mode), or a gallery view you can browse (try clicking an image to enlarge). Switching between the two views uses a tabbed interface. All these features are implemented using excellent, open source and commercial wordpress plugins. No custom coding was required!

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