Our web design agency was hired to build a large-scale website for our client the Florida International University (FIU), Alumni department.
Project Objectives:
Our Web design agency team objective was to build a large-scale custom website built from the ground up which included wireframes, mock-ups , custom web design , web development, API integrations :Job Board, Calendar, Blog Feeds.
Website also had to load very quickly to exceed search engine optimization (SEO) metrics and have the latest in flat design, CSS and ability to grow along side the fast growing Alumni department. Other objectives included regular Skpe meetings, calls and shared apps to approve wire-frames and mock-ups and get client sign-offs to move along the process. The website was built on a WordPress platform with several plugin integrations. An FIU job board plugin was needed and added thats is very robust and very customizable. Future development will be added to restrict it to only be accessible by FIU alumni’s it currently open to public.
Challenges:
Committee based project
Limited bid budget
Extensive web design research
Website needs to load very fast
Our web design agency to figure out how to tie in feeds from their internal database to output in our website.
Additional plugins not originally on scope were added after the fact and had to be customized to website.
Outcome:
Our web design agency created a unique web design, fast-loading and engaging site – we’re very proud of!
We also provided in depth training of the content management system (CMS) and video tutorials for our client to continue to maintain and grow their website.
However, our client opted to hire us on retainer to provide monthly web maintenance to the website and keep it congruent with their organization.
We also provide the yearly web hosting services for the website and conduct regular ongoing updates to all the plugins and WordPress Content Management System (CMS).
Our web design agency provides on-going web design services and development to help grow the website as needed and update plugins and CMS on version updates.