patricktsg Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 https://thesmartgroup.ie/ We launched this earlier in the year, I'm only just getting round to sharing it. This is the 4th iteration design wise in the past 5 years and personally my favourite in terms of design. The old site was PW based so we had a lot of the content in there but undertook a major re-write and claw back to make everything cleaner and more succinct - relying on more visuals to promote the work we do rather than verbose copy. The site is not using anything out of the ordinary, just standard modules I tend to use for all PW sites: AIOM SEO Markup Sitemap XML AutoSmush MenuBuilder: Markup The site loads pretty darn quick considering it's using a lot of images and many of them are 96DPI for better display on Retina. 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Knight Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 Nice site @patricktsg Good to see another Irish user of PW here. BTW love the 404 page 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patricktsg Posted February 7, 2018 Author Share Posted February 7, 2018 25 minutes ago, Peter Knight said: Nice site @patricktsg Good to see another Irish user of PW here. BTW love the 404 page Ha, thanks mate. Yeah - the 404 was the only cat / kitten reference I was permitted to leave in the site after removing place(kitten)holders 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
szabesz Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 3 hours ago, patricktsg said: I was permitted to leave in the site Do not try to be more creative than they are! They might take it as an insult I like the site too, btw. Some big images were a bit slow to appear and the hamburger menu is a bit too small but all in all it is a very nice site! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patricktsg Posted February 8, 2018 Author Share Posted February 8, 2018 11 hours ago, szabesz said: Do not try to be more creative than they are! They might take it as an insult I like the site too, btw. Some big images were a bit slow to appear and the hamburger menu is a bit too small but all in all it is a very nice site! Thanks dude I will look at setting up Cloudflare that might help speed up the image load, also I was looking at http/2 - our server admins are looking at possibly setting that up. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveP Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 4 minutes ago, patricktsg said: I was looking at http/2 Just recently set it up on my VPS - not particularly tricky but there's a potential gotcha in that Apache mpm prefork (whatever the heck that is) doesn't support http/2 so you need a different kind of prefork. https://http2.pro/doc/Apache got me through it. BTW if you have that kind of control over the server, mod_PageSpeed can help by at least serving webp instead of jpeg to supporting browsers. (There's much more to it as well, but the jpeg to webp thing is out of the box.) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patricktsg Posted February 8, 2018 Author Share Posted February 8, 2018 2 minutes ago, DaveP said: Just recently set it up on my VPS - not particularly tricky but there's a potential gotcha in that Apache mpm prefork (whatever the heck that is) doesn't support http/2 so you need a different kind of prefork. https://http2.pro/doc/Apache got me through it. BTW if you have that kind of control over the server, mod_PageSpeed can help by at least serving webp instead of jpeg to supporting browsers. (There's much more to it as well, but the jpeg to webp thing is out of the box.) Thanks Dave - I will do some reading into that and play around on a DO Droplet to benchmark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwired Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 I like the type writer thing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patricktsg Posted February 9, 2018 Author Share Posted February 9, 2018 22 hours ago, pwired said: I like the type writer thing It's in vogue at the moment I used the vue.js component for it but here is the script for the plugin: https://mattboldt.com/demos/typed-js/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heldercervantes Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 Very nice 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxf5 Posted February 10, 2018 Share Posted February 10, 2018 best site in 2018 so far, nice design 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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