Woord van de dag: new and refreshed

• Project: Woord van de dag
• Type: Daily web log about the Dutch language
• Address: http://www.woordvandedag.nl
• Assignment: design & implementation
• Techniques: ASP.NET / C#, MySql

Woord van de dag (Word of the day) is a weblog-like website about the Dutch language. Everyday, a new exciting word is selected and visitors can vote for it, have discussions and view interesting statistics. A team of dedicated writers share their thoughts on language in general in the regular editorials.

Since the website has over 1500 unique visitors each day, it was time to give it a make-over to make it a bit more brighter, happier. It has to be a feel-good website for a happy start of the day. So brighter colors of blue and white were used, bigger fonts, more spacing and more images. And that all while reducing the actual page size for bandwidth purposes.

The new website has been constructed entirely in a custom made platform in C# (.NET) with a MySql database. Custom functionalities contain:

• Paypment provider implementations (iDeal / Mollie)
• Automated jury-driven word selection procedures
• Twitter.com integration
• iGoogle modules