The Challenge
Seeing as Grace wanted to keep her existing website design, we were tasked with keeping exactly the same design however adding some extra functionality like a booking page and a more interactive portfolio page to showcase her work.
The main task here was to recreate her Wix website but within WordPress to give extra functionality and speed.
Our Strategy
As we are WordPress experts, we were not at all worried about recreating the website within WordPress. Our goal was not to change any aspects of the existing design but rather to enhance and add more user-friendly features. This included tabs to switch between portfolio examples, a better photograph navigation experience, effects, and a scrollbar that better suited the existing branding.
The Results
After going through a few drafts we managed to copy the existing design perfectly but add in all of the desired extra functionality.
Since we moved away from Wix, this meant that we were able to implement extra features like:
– Contact forms being sent directly to an email inbox rather than to the Wix inbox
– User-friendly Booking System
– Custom-branded scroll bars and animations
– Portfolio with tabs to showcase a gallery more easily
– Better Photograph browsing experience
We were also able to speed up the website by x2 and implement a CDN for speedy-loading worldwide.
