Marine Training Company Website
Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 11:11 am
Well, I've finally got most of my biggest (to date) website working. Stormforce Coaching is a UK based training company, offering courses afloat and ashore, on sailing boats, powerboats, JetSki's, dinghies etc etc.
To build the site we used a graphic designer to give us the 'look' (some of his ideas/plans still aren't quite incorporated), which he produced as four layered .png files for me to dissect! CMS Made Simple and associated modules has provided the back end, and I have been implementing and maintaining the site.
It is at http://www.stormforce.biz/
It's been a pretty big project, not helped by the fact that the companies 'in house' IT man left very early on to take on a new job, and wasn't replaced, leaving me carrying the can and outside my comfort zone!
On the front end, we've used a few JavaScript widges, mostly based on JQuery, to get things like the news ticker, sliding images, and pop up boxes working, but other than that it's pretty standard.
Beind the scenes, we are using the following modules:
Jobs still to do:
Any suggestions on improvements gratefully recieved.
Jimbo
To build the site we used a graphic designer to give us the 'look' (some of his ideas/plans still aren't quite incorporated), which he produced as four layered .png files for me to dissect! CMS Made Simple and associated modules has provided the back end, and I have been implementing and maintaining the site.
It is at http://www.stormforce.biz/
It's been a pretty big project, not helped by the fact that the companies 'in house' IT man left very early on to take on a new job, and wasn't replaced, leaving me carrying the can and outside my comfort zone!
On the front end, we've used a few JavaScript widges, mostly based on JQuery, to get things like the news ticker, sliding images, and pop up boxes working, but other than that it's pretty standard.
Beind the scenes, we are using the following modules:
- CGEcommerceBase
- CGExtensions
- CGFeedMaker
- CGPaymentGatewayBase
- CGSimpleSmarty
- CMSMailer
- Cart
- CustomContent
- FRTaxes
- FileManager
- FrontEndUsers
- JQueryTools
- MenuManager
- MicroTiny
- ModuleManager
- News
- Orders
- Products
- Promotions
- Quizzard
- SagepayGateway
- Search
- Selfregistration
- ThemManager
- TinyMCE
Jobs still to do:
- Improve Overall loading times - CSS images need to be combined into a sprite, other images need optimising better. Redundant code needs stripping out.
- Get SagepayGateway working properly, to include full eCommerce functionality within the site. This is the big one at the moment.
- Find a better solution for the Mega Menu.
- Introduce Hierarchy menus on each product page (I've got a forum post asking how to do this, have been given good answers!) and breadcrumb links
- Get the 'Dates' Product Attributes to appear in order, possibly include a 'calender' selector rather than drop down box.
- Replace all 'triangle' images with ones generated using css borders (as the flow charts on some of the pages use)
- Produce a mobile friendly version of the site
- Everything else I've forgotten!
Any suggestions on improvements gratefully recieved.
Jimbo