This was the largest projects I have ever undertaken. I joined the GameMethod.com staff as a coder patching new features into their existing CMS. After 3 months of on-and-off development, the site founder asked me to redesign and rebuild their entire site from the ground up. I found someone who would help with the design, and we began work.

The CMS was based off of Textpattern, but with the photo upload functionality rewritten so that photos are attached to galleries. Galleries were usually associated with either a specific game or an article, and an interface was written to allow editors to easily edit image metadata (what the image was about, descriptions, related articles, etc.) Additionally a number of modifications to the Textpattern internals to add features the original CMS had, and to further integrate the site contents with the site forums. The changes included multi-page articles, author profiles (which were not in Textpattern at the time), and a replacement of the Textpattern comment code with code that would work with the Invision Board. (All articles are forum threads, and comments are replies to those threads.)

I continued to work with GameMethod for the rest of the year, and in that time restructured the site as their coverage of video games expanded to cover more platforms and industry events.