With the formalities out of the way, I was able to spend the past five days working on the website. I set up two “demo sites” on the company's server, as previously mentioned, with one displaying the existing site with tweaks and another being a total overhaul. The former has already been finished and I think the overhaul is coming along pretty well. (I would link to previews, but this blog is public and internal corporate stuff is confidential etc etc etc)
I began working on tweaking a copy of the existing site last Tuesday (following the meeting on Monday), and had implemented all of the proposed changes by mid-Wednesday. If they end up choosing to go with the minor update, it's already available, sans some in-site content that I will need to work with employees to come up with (ie; text, photos, updated contact information).
Creating a revamped version of the website has been my primary focus since. The existing site runs on Wordpress with a custom theme. I figured I'd start from scratch, so I copied the site's users/pages/posts over to a fresh Wordpress installation with the default theme. I'm designing it with the existing color scheme (corporate colors, no choice, but I have no problem with them) and with a similar page layout in lieu of the original so that the changes won't seem too radical. I hope to finish or come close to finishing the overhauled version by the end of this week so I can have some time to collect feedback and go from there.
-John K.
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