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by danjones
5459 days ago
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That's a nice idea, I considered doing something similar a few years back. Instead of going to businesses had you considered going to the county councils directly and expanding your service in partnership with them. Many councils provide this data already, albeit in a less accessible form, this could be where your service comes in. Your 'Search for a School' feature doesn't currently work however 'List nearby schools' seems fine. Maybe add a directory listing as an alternative to just searching. If you're planning on pushing this into production, wordpress may not be the best backend to build upon. I'd also recommend you check out Mark Pilgrim's 'Dive into Accessibility', it's a fantastic resource that I'm sure you'll find useful. http://diveintoaccessibility.org/ |
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) There's (going to be) a lot of static content - informational pages, etc - and it's so easy to build the structure with WP. Having a user friendly backend is also essential. ) Time. However much I'd love to spend time building own custom CMS I just don't have time to do this. This project is a side project and I have full time job. So anything that allows me to achieve my goal without spending extra time is a winner in this contest.
Drawbacks are obvious - scalability, inflexibility to build web apps, etc. Until we grow into something bigger I'm afraid we're stuck with WP.
Behind the scenes however there's a Django app (managing school list) and a Flask app (word search generator).
I'm building more Flask based apps at the moment. So WP effectively is a CMS for static pages and a container for some JS.
BTW, very interesting read (diveintoaccessibility.org), thank you!! I'm quite far from design, etc so this is def a good resource for me!
With regards to 'search for a school' it seems to be working ok, although there's a "bug" (feature?) where if you enter something that it cant find it won't tell you about it and won't display anything. Try entering anything from the list which is below the input field and wait for autocomplete to catch up. I need to fix this though really.