This was probably one of the trickiest builds I’ve worked on. The client is using a content management system that is very restrictive when it comes to building new sections to the site. For this client the first matter of business was updating the homepage. I had to first figure out the layout of the page what could and couldn’t change so I could relay that information to the design team so they could put together a mock up that worked within the constraints given. Next I worked on building out the page which relied on mainly plain html and css that was added to the page itself instead of in a separate file.
When it came time for us to work on the products page we learned we couldn’t do much to change them so we’d add SEO content and then style the pages as best we could at the time. To work around the constraint of the product pages we made landing pages that would lead users to the product pages where they could go through the process of ordering their items.
This was a fun and challenging project that really made me think outside the box for some of the execution. It also allowed me to work with the design to come up with designs that we could implement because of the restrictions we faced utilizing the clients content management system.