“Global Dashboard explores global risks and international affairs, bringing together authors who work on foreign policy in think tanks, government, academia and the media. It was set up in 2007 and is edited from the UK by Alex Evans and David Steven.”
The refreshed design for the Global Dashbaord website has now gone live. It’s a bespoke Wordpress theme, following the previous three-column ‘Mimbo’ layout. The site already had a number of unique custom functions operating in the background, so I had to make sure the new theme was up to the job, and thoroughly tested on an external environment, then previewed using the Theme Preview plugin.
The homepage pulls in YouTube clips that the authors have listed as favourites, using the Viper’s Video QuickTags plugin. There are also a number of external feeds that are pulled in and displayed on the homepage using the fantastic Yahoo Pipes system, which I’ve used for other projects since then. I love learning on the job like this, it feels like you really benefit from what you do, and if you’re up for a challenge, a good day can yeild great results.
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