Joss Posted November 18, 2014 Share Posted November 18, 2014 http://claysvehiclerepairs.uk/ A new and very subtle garage website .....not! Clays are a local company and this site is definitely locally aimed. From the technical point of view the website is reasonably brave. The client was keen to list every type of modern car they will deal with and that means almost all of them. I managed to get a reasonably, though not complete list and from that used import pages from CSV to create all the pages for both models and cars. The content for all the pages is centrally generated using lots of Hanna code to insert the manufacturer name and or model name. However, all this content can be overwritten on a page by page basis. Over time the client will be adding his own information about some of the vehicles, especially those he sees a lot of. Service pricing is handled in a similar way. Prices for the three levels of servicing are set centrally but then can be overwritten locally. Generally he says he will use this little as he wants to keep his pricing simple, but the facility is there for him. The site consists of some 980 pages ( a pure beginner in PW terms! ) I have used Lister heavily on this site with most things, including output from the contact form, having a lister of some sort. Hanna Code has been used for the models but also handles all things like phone number, company name and so on, to try and keep consistency throughout the site. Modules used are: Batcher Import Pages Page Field Select Creator Pro Cache (not turned on yet) AIOM Form Builder Hanna Code Color Picker Lister Pro Sitemap Template Notes And a few bits I can't remember! The framework is Foundation 5. I used sass quite a lot here basically to generate my own version of foundation.css with only what I needed. A lot was removed. I have gone a bit mad with the Favicons, using http://realfavicongenerator.net/ Well, they certainly cover everything! The site has been created over many months for non technical reasons, but I have kept it up to date even when it was dormant so that it is running the current version of PW. All the graphics were created in house (that would be me) and my copy of Illustrator has now gone for a lie down. This is a moderately complicated site, allowing for the fact that it offers no functionality for the user other than just reading the site. But I was pleased I could make the site heavily localised and cover everything the client wished with ease. One of his competitors (who also is one of his friends) has a similar idea of a site but built with "another" well know CMS. I won't send you to it - it creaks and groans like a half sunk boat and apparently it is a pig to try and administer and seems to go ape everytime it gets upgraded. So far, the client has been thrilled at how logical the back end of his new ProcessWire website is! There is a lot more to this site than meets the eye, but I am sure you get the general idea! 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kongondo Posted November 18, 2014 Share Posted November 18, 2014 Nice site Joss! (Cheap MOT too...sadly not in my neck of the woods ) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diogo Posted November 18, 2014 Share Posted November 18, 2014 A small shadow on the transparent PNGs would make a huge difference! Would be also nice if the favicon would change colour from page to page (red, blue, green, yellow). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joss Posted November 18, 2014 Author Share Posted November 18, 2014 A small shadow on the transparent PNGs would make a huge difference! Would be also nice if the favicon would change colour from page to page (red, blue, green, yellow). Oh, give me a break! Do you know how many favicons I already have??? Nice site Joss! (Cheap MOT too...sadly not in my neck of the woods ) Oh, good - the block idea worked! Actually, I forgot to mention the blocks! Every main page has a single block position and a group of three in a row. I have created about 15 blocks so far and it is just a question of selecting them for a page. With the car pages, since there are hundreds of them, those are selected centrally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cstevensjr Posted November 18, 2014 Share Posted November 18, 2014 Very nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveP Posted November 18, 2014 Share Posted November 18, 2014 You might find this interesting - http://codepen.io/anon/pen/yHiho - it lines up the buttons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joss Posted November 18, 2014 Author Share Posted November 18, 2014 Cute! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joss Posted November 18, 2014 Author Share Posted November 18, 2014 Love this from Webmaster Tools: 890 URLs submitted 1 URL indexed. Okay, so a bit of a wait then.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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