Place of design

This one is a bit special for us, as it is an internal site.  We are also photographers!

The site
http://www.kingprophoto.com

The design
We wanted a cutting edge design to show off the wedding photographs at their best.  We also wanted to do a DHTML proof of concept site, taking some of the very best DHTML ideas, and producing a site with Flash qualities, without the poor SEO performance of flash

The build
This was a long build, being put to the back behind all of our customer’s works for ages.  There was a lot of intricate CSS and JavaScript’s to sort out

Thanks
We can not thank Gerard Ferrandez enough for some of the superb DHTML scripts, Also Elizabeth for her patience

The Platform
This is a coded from scratch, designed in house, platform-less build

SEO
SEO is a very important element of the sites design.  Over the next months we will be working quite hard on both the on page and off page SEO

Feature list
- No Flash
- Easy to update
- Cutting edge designs
- SEO by design

CSS
A reversed colour website is often the most challenging; we spent a lot of time on the typography, and CSS.  On top of that, many of the scripts we used dynamically manipulate the CSS

Technologies
This site uses PHP, DHTML, JavaScript, CSS and HTML

Hosting
Hosting was provided internally

Photographs and graphics
Some images are from manufacturers, there are a few stock images on the contact pages etc.  The wedding photography content photographs were all taken by Richard King the Wedding Photographer

Concept
We wanted an intriguing site that would draw the user in, and encourage them to explore. There was a balance between intrigue and usability.  We wanted a site that made the wedding photography “Ping” on the screen.  We definitely didn’t want the traditional wedding photographer’s site.  We have a pretty unique style of photography, and we wanted a site to match

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