Barley Legal
URL: barleylegal.ca
Project Objective
Barleylegal (pun intended) is a magazine website maintained by home-brewer, writer and illustrator Saul Moran. I was approached by Saul to develop a platform which would allow him to publish articles, full page comic strips, and brew log entries.
My Involvement
This project was mine to complete with heavy design input from Saul. I started by modeling the site after the popular Penny Arcade website which served a similar purpose for its authors. I built a simple content management system with categories and special tags for document hierarchy, image embedding, and presentation of converted units. I themed the CMS with the basic layout you see on the site which was later filled in with illustrations and a flash banner by Saul.
Barleylegal is built using object oriented PHP5 with a MySQL data model. The front-end website is constructed with basic HTML4 and laid out with some simple CSS. The peculiarity of its requirements, and the terrific illustrations provided by Saul made Barleylegal a lot of fun to work on.