Michelle’s portfolio site

For the first time I’ve compiled a WordPress theme completely from scratch. I did this to build a completely unique portfolio website for my beautiful girlfriend, Michelle. She recently graduated from the Newhouse School and is seeking a job in television reporting.

The homepage features her image alongside a YouTube video of her choice floating inside a television. The video is automatically pulled from any video-bearing post tagged “featured.”

On individual pages in the site, videos are featured at the top using the extra fields function of WordPress. Adding video to a post requires no html editing, and is handled by a set of function scripts capable of sourcing from many popular video websites. Michelle simply needs to enter which site the video is coming from and the serial number of that video. The rest is automatic. This is based on code included in a theme by Foxinni.

The archive and index (work) pages use the popular Timthumb script to deal with resizing and and featuring images for each post. Currently, the only known malfunction with the website is that these Timthumb images are not working on Internet Explorer. Now that I’m done writing this, however, its time to go figure out why.