Wednesday, January 16, 2008

I'm a little late announcing this on freaksauce but I just launched winesocial.com.au which is a joint venture with my wife and something we feel will grow into a fantastic site for Australian and New Zealand wine lovers. The site is a community based wine review site where members can write a quick review and rate a bottle they've recently tried. The idea is that people in Australia and New Zealand can use the site as a resource for new wines to try. The site also features sections such offers, latest releases and gourmet food products which showcase the latest food & wine products on offer as well as accommodation and event information.

The site was built using CodeIgniter 1.5.4 and jQuery, I'm actually using version 1.1.4 as the latest version seemed to break the rating plugin that I am using, I hope to rectify this problem at some stage.

Aside from the main winesocial.com.au site there is also a blog which uses Expression Engine 1.6.1 as I figured there was no point reinventing the wheel, I use EE on my other site Guitar Noize and love the flexibility that it provides, especially as I am a php developer.

So if you are an Aussie or Kiwi who loves some home grown wine or if you're simply just curious, check out winesocial.com.au. By the way if you are an Aussie or New Zealand resident you are eligible to enter our competition, it's very easy you just need to sign up as a member to be entered into the draw!

Jon 9:27 PM Permalink