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Al Perlman, an award-winning journalist, media executive and jazz collector, contacted us a while back with what turned out to be  another very enjoyable project - jazzcollector.com.

Al had previously maintained the site as a flat page html site. This made updating the site a nightmare, but he diligently kept the site updated with his particular niche topic - classic jazz and what it's selling for on eBay.

For the new WordPress based version of the site we have found a perfect free WordPress theme at Blog Oh! Blog, lightly customized with an updated Jazz Collector logo and some re-arrangement of the header and other elements.

On the old Jazz Collector site, Al had maintained a few gigantic html tables holding information on thousands of eBay sales of collectable jazz LPs. For the new site, we were looking for a way to create a Dashboard method to add/edit/delate records of eBay sales of collectable jazz LPs and then display the results on the pubic side of the site.

Still looking for a Dashboard method! In the meantime we have set up a separate Record Album control panel where Al can enter his items and then the results are displayed in a series of sortable tables on the public part of the web site.

Al also uses the site to direct jazz collectors, via the RSS feed generated list of current auctions and sale items on this site, to his eBay store.

Al is a dedicated blogger and, with his quality posts, the comments they generate, the valuable eBay data he presents, the site enjoys a fast growing number of visitors.