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Deployment Considering deployment options and where the main audience base of this website is located I have chosen a New Zealand based shared hosting plan with Hostgator. Shared hosting is my choice due to the low traffic numbers of this website and the unlikely hood of traffic spikes affecting website availability. Hostgator was chosen as my provider after searching multiple websites in the quest to find unbiased opinions, multiple sources agreed Hostgator had one of the highest uptimes which is a high priority. The website is still going under the guise of a project which is how it may remain dependant on whether I decide to take this further with the company owner but can be visited from the web addressed shown above. Implementing functionality within this website was easy, making it look good was hard and where I feel like I fell short in the end.

Implement and demonstrate at least three different types of account on the website I have chosen three people within the company to make accounts for with different levels of permission dependant on what they need are allowed to accomplish within the website. Below is the Show all users screen before I added these new users to the website. Below is the add user screen, a cool feature I liked with this is the auto-generation of an extremely strong password Below is the show all users screen after I created three accounts with different level of permission, I have blanked out the emails for privacy reasons. Below is Peters' account, note I have applied different colour schemes to each account type to help distinguish them from each other. Peter as the business owner I would be handing this website off to has been administered with an Editor account, this will allow him to edit any page and content similar to that, but locking him out of stuff that may damage the si...

Implement code from a library within the Framework Coming soon  TM

Add a Shop  My client did not require a shop for their site, given this, I have still set one up to show my understanding and ability in this area, then I can then remove for the client at a later date. Searching through the plugin library in WordPress I was searching for the most user-friendly template that a client could maintain on their own after my absence, this would require the easy editing or products, costs, sales, images and information. Considering this I chose the most popular plugin for online shops that WordPress uses. Using an efficient wizard my shop was set up within minutes, my next step was to create a product and see if this plugin held the required functionality. This is the create product page, bolstering a busy interface at first but after a little navigation, I found it easy to understand how this works. The right side holds the categories, tags, product image and product gallery. The left side holds the product name, information and...