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N-Web Design add their web portfolio

It's taken a while to get round to it, but our portfolio application has been added to our web site.

Rather than just adding a load of normal pages to the CMS, we decided the best way forward was to decide what we want to say, how we want to present it and what was the easiest way to manage it.

Creating a 'wizard' rather than regular pages

Yes, we knew just adding pages to our portfolio section would work fine, but we also knew it wouldn't get updated too often.

We wanted to create something that allowed up to add the basic details, such as the Company and web address, some images and at least a simple intro so we could add new things in 3 or 4 minutes, letting the CMS application itself worry about formatting and placement, linking and inserting. That makes sense...

Creating custom page types and templates in the CMS allowed up to integrate our simple wizard into the main CMS admin area. We also have all the regular CMS editing facilities so we can add as much additional content, free form, as we like. Most importantly, we can add enough information to showcase our work in about 5 minutes, including making a screenshot.

The power of Content Managed Web Sites

Because we spent a little time thinking about how we would implement our web site and project portfolio, we have created something that is manageable, extendable and really easy to use.

Come back regularly and check out our new projects as we add them to the list.

 

Posted on 19/10/2009 by Ed NIce

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