The New ThoseGeeks Website
We’d like to welcome you to the new ThoseGeeks website. We thought we’d share our reasoning behind what we’ve done.
Focus On Design
On the previous site, we had all of our services kind of strewn across the top. That was great for some folks, but in realty the requests we get are mostly for website design. The new site puts the focus on what most visitors are looking for. We accomplished this in a couple of ways.
First, the largest section of the homepage serves as a design showcase. Each time the page is loaded a random featured design project is shown, complete with a screenshot, a description, and link to view more about the project. Second, the Project section shows a variety of our design projects, which can be filtered by category. The details of each project includes full screenshot and link to the site itself.
That said, we’ve compressed everything else into the Services page. We did this because services such as hosting are often the result of a design project, so it didn’t warrant an entire navigation item. E-commerce is really just a design project, so it didn’t need it’s own navigation tab either. You get the idea.
A New Platform
The new site is built on top of the ExpressionEngine (affiliate link) content management system. We chose to build the new site on this system because of its design flexibility as well as ease of administration. All the content is stored in a database and the various ways we can work with and present this data is pretty much limitless. The new platform also allows us to combine the site, the blog, and a forthcoming searchable support section under one roof. This will prove a valuable time saver for us and will allow us to do things with the site we’ve not been able to do before. We love the system so much we’ve actually even started quoting the system for some of our client projects!
A New Process
We all learn things every day. Over the years we’ve learned some of the hard points of the design process and some of the difficult points for both clients and us. As a result, we’ve also rolled out a new design process and have published a full guide on doing business with us. You can find the New Client Guide on the Our Approach page.
What Do You Think?
How do you feel about our new design and the reasoning behind it? Can we do anything to improve what we’ve done? Share your feelings in the comments.
