The Overall Mission
A funky/trendy website, for kids in Middle School in Chile.
Secundarios.cl is part of a large network of Chile websites we work for. Feel free to use a
translation service to translate the website for you from spanish to English. This network is very into innovate and unconventional designs. Their main goal has always and will always be to worry about what they want to do, and not what their software limits them to do. Nothing in this website even merely resembles vBulletin's fresh out the box, forum-ish appearance. Infact, some say it's hard to believe these websites even use vBulletin! Which is partially true, because they're cheating by using ProvB of course!
vBulletin Modifications & Customization
We used our very own products (but of course with heavy customization), to transform their Phone and Apps forums into actual Phone & App Directories.
Custom Widgets & Pages We Made
Homepage (Fully-Automated)
The homepage includes automated entries from their blog, along with a content slider up top that scrolls through their features content (specified in their Administrative Control Panel), and of course their resourceful vBulletin sidebar.
Sidebar (Fully-Automated)
The sidebar serves a great purpose all throughout this website and is fully automated.
The sidebar changes content sometimes based on the page you're viewing, but on most pages it includes
- A few social icons
- A tabbed widget which uses cool effects to switch between the newest, most responded, and most visited topics
- A tabbed widget which switches between the newest and most responded blogs
- A calendar widget
- Featured poll widget
Also, if you visit threads, forums, or blogs, widgets pop up in the sidebar instantly to help access certain controls or links. A lot of thought was put into this sidebar.
The vBulletin Designing Process
Because the Chile network we work with likes to get really crazy with their designs, we always end up in a situation where we find ourselves finding the design either We or Outsourced Designers made almost impossible to integrate with vBulletin. The fact of the matter is these designs look nothing like vBulletin yet alone most communities online. Each wacky in it's own way, we try to keep up to date with the latest trends such as jquery, social networks, etc. while also not being afraid to step out of the comfort zone.
A few glimpses of Some Cool Pages