I’ve been steward of this site for years. At first I came in and made adjustments to the existing site, built with a custom CMS in ColdFusion. Later, I rebuilt the whole site from scratch in the same system. Most recently, it was redone again – this time with WordPress.
One of the agency artists laid out the mockup, including some awesome collages for each section. Then I took those mockups and brought them to life using the Joyn theme.
Site was mocked up in Photoshop and the given to me once the look was approved. It’s generally my job to bring the mockup to life. Sometimes changes or sacrifices have to be made for the sake of simplicity or usability – or some specific feature of the design would end up being way more work to program than it seems. When this happens, the lead designer and I work together to come up with a solution that best fits the “feel” they want to capture while still being practical.
One unique feature of this site is the rotating product spotlight (scroll to the bottom of this page). This is a customized slider that dynamically pulls in product names, photos, and descriptions from a collection of posts.
The client wanted a website that went well with their print material. Based on their direction, our team laid out a mockup of what it should look like. Once it was approved, I built out the site, from header to footer and all pages in between. See the site here (enter a California ZIP code, like 90210).
After being given the layout mocked up in Adobe Illustrator, I created this site using the Joyn WordPress theme. I’m really happy with how this one turned out. The dynamic elements on the home page are especially cool.
This site uses a custom-built ColdFusion-based CMS. Unlike WordPress sites, building this one needed a lot of raw code writing. I built the front end out from the ground up, right in my trusty text editor. And it’s responsive! Yay!
