Web Design Bath, Website Design Bristol, Web Designer Somerset. Features at a glance - Pagebuild. Newsroom. Design – Develop – Create – Support. How I Built a Web 2.0 Dating Site in 66.5 Hours. Please note: As many of you know Mingle2 was bought by JustSayHi (another dating site) in 2007. JustSayHi’s infrastructure runs on Ruby on Rails, and as such Mingle2 was eventually ported over to that framework as well. For those curious what the original Mingle2 was like, I’ve preserved the original CakePHP version of Mingle2 here: Let this be a testament to Web 2.0 and the effectiveness of rapid development frameworks: I built a full-featured dating website, from concept to launch, in 66.5 hours.
In a typical 9-5 job this would amount to about a week and a half. Deliverables included: The Idea – Cooking up a brand with a name, identity, and purposePlanning – Creating functional specifications, visual wireframes, and information architectureDesign – Creating mock-ups and defining aesthetics, typography, positioning, and colorDevelopment – Writing the actual codeTesting – Ironing out the kinksLaunch – Going live Keep. A failed header idea. Bristol Web Design and Consulting — The Co-op of Bristol Web Designers — Grow Collective. Analog.