New Site for Hi-Fi Manufacturer Musical Fidelity
Posted: Thu May 17, 2012 7:56 pm
Just launched this as our latest project, a new site for a well know high-end Hi-Fi company, Musical Fidelity.
http://www.musicalfidelity.com
The project was pretty involved having a big product portfolio using Cataloger and a local (UK) and overseas dealer / distributor search engine using Company Directory.
As usual these days a Twitter feed was needed as was the News module.
The content was a huge job in itself with a pro journalist friend of mine needed to generate over 13,000 words of content for the product section alone. I had to edit over 130 images too!
Speaking of images one problem I had was files in Cataloger. The graphic design called for sliding transparent images (.png in this case) over a shadow background for each product but .png files are not compatible with the Cataloger image section. No problem, I just used the files feature. However, the files section of the Cataloger does't keep files in a particular index slot but reindexes them into alphabetical order. So, all files had to have a number as the first character of the file name to force the image files to stay in the right order and, therefore, appear in the right place on the page. Not ideal but it works just fine.
I still have an issue with the dealer locator as the client needs a list of the categories of product stocked when listing dealers in Summary view (no detail view needed). I'm still looking for a way round that!
Anyway, I hope you like it. I'm always open to suggestions and improvements so feel free to let us know what you think!
HTML5 used for all templates, core and module versions as follows:
Core: 1.10.3
CGSimpleSmarty: 1.5
CGExtensions: 1.28.2
Formbuilder: 0.7.2
Advanced Content: 0.9.3
JQueryTools: 1.0.10
CompanyDirectory: 1.13.1
Cataloger: 0.10
CMSForms: 0.1.7
TwitterMadeSimple: 1.10
SiteMapMadesimple: 1.2.6
http://www.musicalfidelity.com
The project was pretty involved having a big product portfolio using Cataloger and a local (UK) and overseas dealer / distributor search engine using Company Directory.
As usual these days a Twitter feed was needed as was the News module.
The content was a huge job in itself with a pro journalist friend of mine needed to generate over 13,000 words of content for the product section alone. I had to edit over 130 images too!
Speaking of images one problem I had was files in Cataloger. The graphic design called for sliding transparent images (.png in this case) over a shadow background for each product but .png files are not compatible with the Cataloger image section. No problem, I just used the files feature. However, the files section of the Cataloger does't keep files in a particular index slot but reindexes them into alphabetical order. So, all files had to have a number as the first character of the file name to force the image files to stay in the right order and, therefore, appear in the right place on the page. Not ideal but it works just fine.
I still have an issue with the dealer locator as the client needs a list of the categories of product stocked when listing dealers in Summary view (no detail view needed). I'm still looking for a way round that!
Anyway, I hope you like it. I'm always open to suggestions and improvements so feel free to let us know what you think!
HTML5 used for all templates, core and module versions as follows:
Core: 1.10.3
CGSimpleSmarty: 1.5
CGExtensions: 1.28.2
Formbuilder: 0.7.2
Advanced Content: 0.9.3
JQueryTools: 1.0.10
CompanyDirectory: 1.13.1
Cataloger: 0.10
CMSForms: 0.1.7
TwitterMadeSimple: 1.10
SiteMapMadesimple: 1.2.6
