Custom WordPress Site for Stand Sound

The new site for Stand Sound marks the third site in a row that I have made use of the powerful Flutter plugin for WordPress. Stand Sound is a company that offers post-production sound packages to film and tv productions and their new site needed to showcase information in ways that went beyond what the typical WordPress page is capable of.

For their Projects, Personnel and Facilities pages, we needed a way to display images, information and links without being confined to the normal block of text. To accomplish this in a way that added to the design, made the information more readable and was still easy to edit from the backend, would not have been possible without the Flutter plugin, which allows you to create custom content types and then display those different content areas anywhere on the page.

The Home Page

The overall concept is meant to be a clean, modern design that would properly represent a professional production company.

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The Personnel Pages

The main focus of this site is to showcase the personnel and sound stages that are available to be packaged. The personnel are categorized by their positions from Post Production Supervisor to Composer to Sound Mixer and everything in between. Each person would need a quick bio, a headshot, a list of credits and an area to highlight some past projects. Each highlighted project would also need an image and a series of links.

Here is a look at one of the composers:

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The News Section

The standard blog abilities of WordPress were put to use in the News section where I was able to try out the new Post Image functions available in WordPress 2.9. In previous versions, giving each post a thumbnail required adding plugins and a decent amount of code. Now it is as easy as uploading an image and adding one simple line to the template files. The use of thumbnails really added a lot, especially to a basic clean design like this one.

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To view large scale images, I used the same plugin you see on my site as you view these images, the Shadowbox JS plugin. It automatically adds this effect to any image that links to itself in a post. Really easy to use and adds a lot to the final product.