Joseph N. Yamaner and Nigina Khasidova
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The Process
Once the team was assigned, I collected the necessary information from the Project Manager and the Sales Representative who have spoken to the client directly.
Once I had the clients information about their site (inspiration sites, color choices, imagery, font style), then I selected a homepage template to utilize for this site. Communicating with the Content Marketer about the content on the homepage, I began implementing the copy into the template. Once the homepage template was complete, I sent the finished homepage design, and all of the information to the third party vendors, to build out the internal pages according to the homepage design. Our sites are designed using a customized WordPress platform and the DIVI design WordPress plugin from Elegant Themes.
After the vendors completed the internal pages, we completed the team review, and sent the site through Quality Assurance (QA), we scheduled the call with the client to review the site. On this call the client reviewed their site for the first time, and gave feedback.
We then completed the edits to the site, and sent the site through QA again. Upon completing the edits necessary for full funtionality from QA, we sent the site to the tech services team to send the site live.
The Design
For this client they specified that they liked the colors of the New York Mets, since the client was located in Queens, New York. I started with the blue and orange of the Mets and added some shades and tones to compliment the two colors.
For the practice area section, I chose to include the 4 practice areas with greyed out images behind the titles. The client stated that they liked classic black and white imagery and greyed out images. They wanted images for the practice area but also to include local landmarks (The World’s Fair site in Queens) as well as images depicting Veterans (as they work with Veterans as well).
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Client Feedback
On the call the client requested that we include the video of him. I added it as a feature section on the homepage to bring more interest and longer view times to the site.
The client also specified that they wanted the header to be a sticky header that stayed at the top of the page as the user scrolled. I implemented the sticky header and used CSS code to shrink the images on scroll so that the header took up less of the screen.