www.wcdish.com
West Chester Dish (WC Dish) is an online foodie community centered in West Chester PA run by Mary Bigham, local foodie and hard-to-miss personality. WC Dish began as a humble blog about dining and dating in West Chester, but Mary had much bigger plans in mind. She didn’t want to just talk about food, she wanted to provide a place where the local foodie community could share experiences, compare notes, and spread the word that West Chester is a fantastic culinary destination.
Since then, we’ve grown WC from a small blog to a multi-author online magazine with a lively following. The site runs entirely on WordPress, a popular open-source blogging platform written in PHP — make that WordPress + lots and lots of plugins. Basically, I could never have built it without the amazing resources provided by the WordPress community — documentation, tutorials, themes, plugins, etc. I owe a lot of thanks to a lot of developers out there.
Of course, looks count too. The current design evolved from a design by Shamlian Advertising in Media PA (shout out to my hometown, the “first fair trade town in the US”). I’ve heavily modified the design as we’ve continued to massage the content, but Shamlian gave us that great Louis-Vuitton background and most of the other basic elements. Great work guys.
Keep your eye on WC Dish in 2008… were going to take things to a whole new level.