Currently knee deep in designing out a photography site for my sister, using Word Press as a content management system. It’s like creating a weblog and populating it with photos and then taking out 99% of the usability, so the posts which are essentially just photos, are as minimal as possible. I’m not even using pages, so you can’t navigate to photos individually. You view photos by choosing a category such as portraits, hip-hop, travel, fashion etc… and the whole layout is horizontally scrolling, instead of the usual vertical format of most blogs. It’s an insane exercise in getting a piece of software to do things it wasn’t necessarily made to do and stripping things down to it’s barest essentials.
The cool part is that all the info you’d get with a normal blog entry like title, text, excerpt and meta data is all still there but you can’t see it. Google can though. and this is key, the whole site is searchable. totally key. If it works, I’ll probably release it as a Word Press theme.
you can see the work in progress here: qualitypeoples.com/beth
