Drivewire, the new car magazine aimed at drivers in Northern Ireland and beyond, has now been launched! We have plans to add lots more exciting new features, but we’re going live with a good foundation for bringing car news to readers.
We have blogs, message forums, news, reviews, car information, classifieds, a YouTube TV feed and lots of other exciting things for petrol heads to get their teeth into!
The system was developed as a bespoke solution, tailored to include all the features which we wished for. There is a phpbb3 forum, which knits in with the custom code, to provide a comments/forum system to encourage debate on a feature rich platform.
Other features include:
- Text Tools: An in house tool to create graphical fonts, on the fly, via PHP. This gives us the power to use interesting and unusual fonts, while seamlessly integrating with CSS, by using a server side pre-parser. This has also been used to great affect on the Royal Ulster Academy site, the Nomadic Belfast site, the Nitelife site, and Cellifieds which we have also designed, developed and now host.
- Cellifieds, SNAP IT, SEND IT, SELL IT. technology to allow all adverts entered into the classifieds system to be viewed over the mobile phone as we through the Cellifieds web site. Sending an MMS to 88810 starting with ‘drivewire’ gives access to a custom catalogue. This will be extended in the future to provide access to news and reviews, while on the move.
- Classifieds, linked via reviews: This gives readers an opportunity to buy what they are reading about.
- YouTube Car Feed: A custom TV feed from YouTube selects the best and most recent car videos and broadcasts them to your browser. We will be adding our own channels, with our own footage soon too (we have an Aston video waiting in the wings!).
We have plans for many other features, including user blogs and reviews. We want to make the reader the star of the show, while providing our own quality content for the less interactive user.
Take a look at the site at http://www.drivewire.eu. Don’t forget to register!
