ryan Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 I've been working on this one for a few months and just launched it this morning: http://villasofdistinction.com I also did the previous iteration of this site, 5 or so years ago (which was running ProcessWire 1.0). The new site is powered by ProcessWire 2.4 (2.3 dev). The site is responsive and designed for a good experience on both desktop and mobile. While I did all the development, the site's design/look and feel was created by the client (they have their own internal design agency). Most of the work in this project was actually not anything you can see on the front end. Instead, most of the work went towards back-end management, workflow and web services. The client has a large number of editors and agents that needed various capabilities, workflows, feeds and such. So there's a lot more going on here in terms of a management platform than in the previous iteration... and that's mostly what kept me busy for so those few months. Modules used here: Foundation 4 Profile All In One Minify (AIOM) FieldtypeMapMarker (with MarkupGoogleMap) Pro Cache Form Builder Hanna Code Redirects Selector test Changelog Version Control for Text Fields Batcher Admin Template Columns CKEditor Select Multiple Transfer CollagePlus And a few custom modules 26 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martijn Geerts Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 Did you build it with WordPress ? Great Lookin, love the colors schemes. Very good UI. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adrian Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 It really is a great looking color scheme. I love that you've built a modern site that is still so functional. I have to admit to being more than a little frustrated by some of the current interfaces being developed these days. Great job! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwired Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 I tested it on a slow connection, still loads very fast, also the picture slideshow. Of what I can see on the front: Easy to navigate, very transparant with colors matching the subject, nice footer. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apeisa Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 Since I found ProcessWire, I have been huge fan of different Villa sites (all build with ProcessWire). This one is my new favourite, brilliant work Ryan! Amazing how fast the site is, even from this side of Atlantic and with all those huge images. ProCache, PW, AIOM, server and good image optimizations all doing their magic I suppose. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cstevensjr Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 Ryan, you are a one-of-a-kind super talented coder and a master website builder/developer. An unbelievable website. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joss Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 Very, very smart. This is the kind of site that should be used as a long case study (small ebook, to be honest) going through details such as why dedicated work-flows are so important (and how to define them) the importance of rigidly defining the brief, the necessity of being able to recreate ideal workflows in the back-office for the editorial/site management reasons, the creation of an editorial hierarchy and managing it the level of expertise required to attack such a project the importance of a consistent and understandable API to have a chance of a) creating the site and b) modifying and developing the site over a sustainable period why developing such a site within a rigid structure such as Joomla or Wordpress would undermine most of the above, underlining the importance of being able to create a dedicated application And the finally, why ProcessWire made all the above not only possible, but delivers a fast, effective, enterprise class solution. So, a big PW advert, basically. ProcessWire needs such a write up. 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveB Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 Ditto. I'd like to hear more about using PW back end features to their best advantage, for a nice workflow. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marco Angeli Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 ...now I understand why you didn't reply to my messages! : ) ...great work, by the way. Responsive, easy to use, I like it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felix Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 Very nice site. If I'm allowed to suggest something: I think it would benefit from using another (serif) typo (at least for the headlines). This would make it look much more "premium"/"classy" imho (though I'm pretty sure the typo is defined in your customers CD). I'd also be interested in hearing about the workflow part (if you built some modules for that - will they be released somewhen?). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adrian Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 More importantly, that Type Wonder site looks awesome - what a great idea! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryan Posted January 18, 2014 Author Share Posted January 18, 2014 Thanks for the feedback guys! I agree on the serif typeface (replacing the Georgia with another serif face), but it's not my call. I'll suggest it though. I already communicated concern about using a geometric face for body copy (Avenir) but it doesn't seem to be a major issue in the end. I'll check with the client to see what I can share on the workflow side. But essentially, this site involves 1 PW installation for managing the inventory, and another PW installation for presenting it, and they use web services to chat back and forth all day. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cstevensjr Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 It would be really interesting to know conceptually how the inventory and web services work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveB Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 essentially, this site involves 1 PW installation for managing the inventory, and another PW installation for presenting it, and they use web services to chat back and forth all day. Thinking outside the box. I love it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wayne Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 But essentially, this site involves 1 PW installation for managing the inventory, and another PW installation for presenting it, and they use web services to chat back and forth all day. I'm also quite interested in the concept behind those two PW installations. And of course: Great job on that. Did the client say anything about IE compatibility? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcC Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 Lovely job, Ryan! I was so close to booking a 10+ person venue for an impromptu ProcessWire gathering at Calvigny, but $52K per night just sets off my grunge alarms. Maybe the pools aren't refilled nightly or something, you never know. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vladar Posted February 17, 2014 Share Posted February 17, 2014 Great work. I love the site. I have similar task ahead and I am complete novice to PW. I'd appreciate if you could take a look of my thread and let me know what you think. http://processwire.com/talk/topic/5590-building-a-real-estate-site-and-tools/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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