The Malitsh Language
A satirical language dictionary depicting how some Maltese really speak or write in English, by literally translating Maltese to English.
05/11/2020
Product Owner, Designer, Developer
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Project Overview
The site is built entirely with PHP, APIs, MySQL, HTML/CSS, vanilla JS, jQuery & AJAX
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Custom Design & Development: Tailored PHP backend with file and MySQL storage.
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Data Delivery: All dictionary data is read via PHP APIs for flexibility and performance.
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User Contributions: Visitors can submit phrases, add context images, and interact with content — anonymously or via login.
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Personalization: PHP sessions and cookies let users set how “rude” or absurd they want their dictionary experience to be.
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Social Sharing: Integrated Facebook and LinkedIn sharing to spread the Maltish spirit far and wide.
This project is a practical example of Product Management, from POC to v1 release, user engagement spurring a v2 plan.
v2, coming soon Following growing popularity and real user insights, the next phase will migrate the site to WordPress to simplify content management and introduce Google Login, new interactive features, inspired directly by community feedback and real user stories.