Sapphire Beach Vacation Club
The Sapphire Beach Vacation Club is a site that I developed for my girlfriend’s father. He has two condos in St. Thomas, and he wanted a website to help him advertise the condos.
This was the first site that I have developed that is completely powered by Wordpress. I’ve heard so many great things about it being used as a CMS, so I figured now was the time to start.
It was a dream to work with. I used the Page functionality to control all of the site.
The Design
The site is based on a 5-column, 150px wide grid. This was the first site that I have ever strictly adhered to that. It definitely makes adding things like pullquotes and images easier because then you know what widths you have to work with.
When I first thought about the design, for some reason I instantly thought about a polaroid. Using a brush in Photoshop, I was able to create the tilted polaroid affect. Then I used the right hand column to have images of the properties that open up in a lightbox.
I think some of the content formatting still needs some work, but overall I’m pretty happy with the site.
