Project case study
Marc du Ry
A modern website for a medieval art dealer
Summary
Hosting, domain management, and a content management system-based website for an international art dealer.
Objective
Marc du Ry is an international art dealer who specialises in Medieval Art. I was approached to redesign his website and bring it up to date. It had been put together with Frontpage and over time errors had crept into the code. He had also gradually purchased a number of domain names from different companies and now wanted to centralise them with one provider so that administration would be simpler. And he required the provision of an inexpensive CMS.
Solution
After discussion, a plan of development and fees were negotiated. Visual mockups were produced and refined until the designs and layouts for the main sections of the new site had been agreed. Macromedia Contribute was selected for the CMS because it would give the client himself the scope to alter the text and images of the site and add pages within the same design without compromising the graphic design or architecture of the website.
Custom made templates were developed from the mockups and tested across a number of platforms and browsers to enable easier production of additional pages and a broad browser compatibility. Finally, the pages themselves were put together using a cocktail of XHTML, CSS, PHP, Javascript and, after final revision, launched from their new hosting (also supplied) to be newly found by the public via the now modified and coordinated domains.
Subsequently, a new section was added to the site to privately profile new purchases for current clients and those who have signed up to his mailing list. This, with full versions of catalogues otherwise only partially available to the public have been added to a password based members section.
What they said
“How rare to find someone with patience who also knows when to come up with helpful suggestions in order to fine-tune one's own ideas. How refreshing to have a personal one-to-one service of professional quality from someone who can join aesthetic insight with technical facility.”
Marc du Ry
Client
Sector
- Arts & Culture
Date
January 2006 +
Services provided
- Web hosting
- Usability & Information Architecture
- Support and Maintenance
- Strategy and project planning
- Standards based design
- Domain Names
- Content Management Systems (CMS)
Status
Live