On Friday 20th July I finally deployed a site which we as a team have been working on for a number of months. Working on the project has been a huge learning curve and has taken way longer than ever expected. The site which I am talking about is http://bd4d.com, which stands for By Designers 4 Designers is built using the seagull php framework with the new cms module

The review is broken up into two key sections: General Comments (Media Temple install, useful plugins, paypal) and Site Features (showcase, events, job board).

I developed the (Atalink) site using the Seagull php framework, using the publisher module (which has recently been superseded by the CMS module).

The publisher module requires a bit of hacking to make it run effectively, especially if the site requires content pages which have different layouts. But, overall the site works well and looks pretty good, even if I say so myself ;) .

I have still had a number of difficulties, so for those of you who are planning on building a similar site, here are some of the things which I have learnt.

Included among his "lessons learned" were some tips for using the publisher module, solving a server issue, fixing browser-related problems, and the integration of Google Maps.