Launched: Pearl Women’s Center website
We’ve just finished up and launched the new website for the Pearl Women’s Center, a unique medical practice here in Portland’s Pearl District:
We developed the site in collaboration with the incredibly talented creative team at The Maris Agency, and we’re very, very pleased with the results — a clean, brand-tuned facelift (no pun intended) for a stylish, boutique client.
In this build, we had the opportunity to try out some great new cross-browser-compatible interactive techniques. In the end, we ended up using both the script.aculo.us and JQuery libraries, and some fantastic open-source extensions of each, to enhance several different areas of the site.
In particular, for the before/after image galleries, we made use of the fantastic Galleria extension to JQuery, which, in coordination with WordPress (and no small amount of tinkering to make it all look just right), made possible the dynamic, cross-browser, hack-free photo galleries that grace the PWC website. Much respect and thanks to the developers of Galleria for their great contribution to the world of image galleries.
As alluded to above, the other great tool at the heart of this project is WordPress — originally developed as a blogging platform, it makes a wonderful CMS as well. The ease of extensibility and sensibly-uncomplicated template system made for a very fast and fun build, leaving plenty of room in our schedule for well-nigh-obsessive detail tweaking.
We’re experimenting with custom WordPress plug-in development, and are looking forward to making much use of it in upcoming projects.
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