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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. 


 

 

 

 

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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!

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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.

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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.)

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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.

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