Relaunch Case Study: Codethatdesign
I have been running Codethatdesign for about 9 months and in that time I have built up a number of regular clients and am continuing to get new clients on a daily basis so it has been a triumph. However, the site has remained pretty much the same in all that time, so over the past month or so I have been working on a facelift.
As it is a coding service, it was imperative that it followed coding standards and the code itself and the items in the portfolio were top notch, so I have spent a lot of time developing it to ensure that it as effective as possible to potential clients.
As many of you will know, I am an avid user of jQuery and this doesn’t change on this site, I have used it on the homepage to create a tab like section so that it makes good use of screen real estate and on the portfolio so I can demonstrate my best work in the best possible way. However, when using JavaScript, you should always think of the users that don’t have it enabled, for this reason the site is fully functional without Javascript. I inevitably coded the site for non-Javascript users and then added CSS through the Javascript for the people that have it enabled, this way the site will work perfectly either way.
I kept the site itself simple with all the information required spaced out nicely so its easy to read and clear where each section is. I used a warm blue background to give contrast to the content area and used tabs for the navigation of the site. I used an Apple influenced style with the images offset into the bottom right corner on both the homepage and the portfolio and used image substitution for the headings.
Overall, I think the new site is effective in providing a user friendly and professional design with the functionality to showcase my skills as a coder/developer so that potential clients can make an informed decision of whether to hire me or not and of course I think it’s a vast improvement on the old site.