Boundary Sounds and ChillyBin have been working together on developing and upgrading their web presence and blog. The brief was to create something new and fresh to suit their ever expanding brand and have integrations with some of the latest web technologies. It’s now one of the hottest blogs around!

The website for Boundary Sounds was built for the WordPress Content Management System, and utilises the latest in SEO enhancements in order to get content seen as widely as possible. Boundary Sounds post a large number of weekly photos from events so we integrated a Photo Gallery which is very easy to manage and looks great. Alongside an integrated Sound Cloud MP3 player, we also linked and imported their Twitter & Facebook social network profiles. The Boundary Sounds team now have full access to update all the content on their website in a quick and easy system which gives them highly detailed analytics.

Role: Design & Development (WordPress, XHTML & CSS, jQuery, PHP & MySQL)
URL: www.boundarysounds.com

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• We just launched a new website for our friends at @boundarysounds — go on check it out! http://www.boundarysounds.com #chillybin #
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• 45 Creative Resumes to Seize Attention http://bit.ly/cyDkSk – Fantasticly creative! has me inspired to revamp mine when I have free time #
• Great, I now have 2 broken ps3's that I can't repair as I'm not in the region I purchased them in! http://twitpic.com/16j1ut #ps3fail #
• Steam is coming to the Mac, Valve has made some excellent teaser ads: http://bit.ly/c8wVY1 http://bit.ly/afLjsO #
• Steam is coming to the Mac, Valve has made some excellent teaser ads: http://bit.ly/c8wVY1 #fb #
• A 20 Minute Intro to Typography Basics http://bit.ly/ECsXK #
• How To Create a Flash XML Playlist Music Player – http://bit.ly/GX6rv #
• CSS3 Loading Spinners Without Images – http://bit.ly/9NRXDg – Super Awesomeness! #
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• CSS Standards and Best Practices – http://bit.ly/JN8Fa #
• Asian Poker Showdown http://www.chillybin.com.sg/portfolio/asian-poker-showdown/ #chillybin #
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• Awesome HTML5 Video Player, no flash needed! http://bit.ly/bX6yZJ #
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• Simple Website Layout Tutorial Using HTML 5 and CSS 3 http://bit.ly/bHv97o #
• Do's and Don'ts of social media marketing http://bit.ly/bnQCfP #
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Asian Poker Showdown has been working with ChillyBin to develop a web presence for their reality show to be broadcast throughout the web & each week a new episode will be released online. The site was launched recently after much development and we are proud of the finished result.

The website for Asian Poker Showdown was built using the 960 Grid System, in pure xHTML & CSS with jQuery. The back-end system is utilising a MySQL database and brought to life with PHP. With an integrated login & membership system we were able to build a email marketing database as well as incentivising membership by making certain sections of the website only available to members. We integrated a Forum, Photo Gallery as well as portfolio pages for the Pokerstars Models & Contestants.

Utilising the unmatched interactivity and convenience of the world wide web, Asian Poker Showdown – Singapore will be exclusively streamed in high definition right here! Expect 10 episodes of exciting poker action and outrageous antics as our contestants battle it out for poker stardom!

Role: Design & Development (Flash, XHTML & CSS, jQuery, PHP & MySQL)
URL: www.asianpokershowdown.com

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• Varied day: xhtml/css, html email newsletter & php/mysql coding, flash, dreamweaver, photoshop, illustrator design & purchased domain names! #
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Stage Mothers required our services to develop their new website to promote and market their upcoming run of shows, specifically at South by Southwest 2010. The brief outlined a clear emphasis social networking and integration of specific services such as RSS, TwitPic, Twitter, Flickr & Soundcloud.

The website was designed by ChillyBin and developed for the WordPress content management system utilising the thesis framework and offers all content to be easily updatable by staff. Creative direction was taken from promotional material and was kept simple to clearly highlight the content.

As well as a complete social network integration with links to Twitter, Facebook, Myspace & more, ChillyBin has provided expertise and knowledge in online marketing, best practice & web consultancy. We have also integrated their customer/consumer relationship management system alongside a freshly designed email marketing newsletter.

Role: Web Design &amp Development (Photoshop, XHTML & CSS, & jQuery)
URL: stagemothers.com

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Huvafen Fushi by Per AQUUM are members of Elite Resorts of Asia Pacific who approached us to edit and compile a one minute promotional video and mix in a new audio track. We used both original video footage as well as promotional images for the visuals, and audio from their own DJ compilation.

Role: Video Production (Editing)
URL: huvafenfushi.peraquum.com

We’ve all had these problems working with WordPress as designers where you are trying to format an article or something for a client and have everything lined up perfectly, publish the article, only to find out that WordPress has removed all your manual line-breaks!

Fortunately there is a pretty simple fix, I had to edit formatting.php in order to keep wpautop() from removing my deliberate breaks. I commented out the following line which replaces two occurrences of BR separated only by whitespace with two newlines:

//$pee = preg_replace('|<br />\s*<br />|', "\n\n", $pee);

Then, I commented out this line found towards the end of the function and replaced it with a version that exempts BRs from being removed:

Commented out:
//$pee = preg_replace('!<br />(\s*</?(?:p|li|div|dl|dd|dt|th|pre|td|ul|ol)[^>]*>)!', '$1', $pee);

Replaced with:
$pee = preg_replace('!(\s*</?(?:p|li|div|dl|dd|dt|th|pre|td|ul|ol)[^>]*>)!', '$1', $pee);

This keeps wordpress from stripping the breaks, but it does not keep Tiny MCE from doing it if you go to visual mode.

• Happy Chinese New Year!
  Gong Xi Fa Cai!

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chillybin Web Design & Consultancy would like to wish all of our clients, friends, partners and readers a happy and prosperous New Year!

chillybin will be closed on Feb 15th & 16th for New Year celebrations and will return Wednesday 17th.