Ladbrokes Poker

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This was the second site I converted to the uniform Ladbrokes "branding". Ladbrokes Poker is a large community focused site aimed at not only appealing to new players but also as a portal for current poker players.

Key Points

• Strong marketing focus - i.e. promotions and news were paramount
• The porting of the current poker community, including profiles and avatar management to new design
• A professional player blogs module
• An event module, with multimedia components such as videos, podcasts, and images.
• A dynamic tournament schedule, integrated with web services from the poker software supplier

Technologies Used

• PHP5 - built on a custom PHP framework
• W3C compliant XHTML - optimized for SEO and accessibility
• CSS
• XML
• REST based APIs
• SOAP based APIs