I know I’m kinda behind the bandwagon on this one…but I’ve been racking my brain trying to come up with the perfect solution for the NYPS rebrand. I want…no I need for this redesign to be on some sort of CMS. It needs to be flexible, simple to update, funtional, and beautiful to look at. I’ve used Kubrick as a base in the past…but now I think it’s definitely time to jump to K2.

So…how do I take my wireframes & design comps and move them into the K2 framework? I came across one of Paul’s old tutorials on Customizing K2, and thought that would definitely be a great starting point.

To get a better idea of what I am dealing with, here are the initial wireframes for NYPS rebrand, redesign, realign…whatever you want to call it.

http://www.reinventingerica.com/wireframe.pdf

http://www.reinventingerica.com/wireframeinner1.pdf

http://www.reinventingerica.com/wireframeinner2.pdf

I’m working on the design comps right now. I think this will be the perfect opportunity to test the power of WordPress (and their nifty new Widgets), as a CMS for an organization that will have several people editing different sections of the site on a daily/weekly/monthly basis. It is also a good opportunity to test the flexibility of K2.

In the past I’ve used Joomla for such projects…but in this case I wanted a more elegant solution. Something with less features, but more extensibility. I think part of what makes WordPress great as a CMS is that you don’t have to spend half a day turning off the features you don’t need. It gives you just enough…and nothing more. If you want extras…well there are a multitude of plug-in repositories. I’ll keep you updated on my progress.

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