Project Details:
WordPress Responsive Design Website for Chef
The WordPress responsive website allows this celebrity chef to display her delicious, easy to follow recipes, photos and how to videos with ease.
Technologies Used:
WordPress, PHP
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BACKGROUND
- South African Chef Melissa Mayo has spent many years cooking for Hollywood studio elite.
- The Chef wanted her own website where she can showcase to the world her quick, simple and delicious recipes and blog about her cooking adventures and travel.
- Capture an engaging, visually appealing responsive design for both desktop and mobile users
- Integrate finished site with popular social media networks for easy sharing
- Provide a way as easy as possible to create content and send newsletters quickly and efficiently
- Minimize ongoing cost by providing a CMS that is easy to use without any programming or technical knowledge
SCOPE
- Capture an engaging, visually appealing responsive design for both desktop and mobile users
- Integrate finished site with popular social media networks for easy sharing
- Provide a way as easy as possible to create content and send newsletters quickly and efficiently
- Minimize ongoing cost by providing a CMS that is easy to use without any programming or technical knowledge
SOLUTION
- To address our clients wish list, our team of developers decided to use WordPress because:
- it’s easy of use, with a host of ready to use widgets
- it has the ability to scale and grow with our client’s needs
- the platform is dynamic and has a large WordPress community
- lead development time is greatly reduced
- The finished portal consisted of a very clean and modern design using an appealing color pallet, easy to read fonts and high quality images and videos to create a visually exciting experience
- Site was designed using responsive techniques as a way to capitalize on the explosive growth in mobile and putting the Client in a great long-term position to benefit from the constant evolution in responsive design
- With the WordPress admin, the client can easily manage all the pages and their content without requiring assistance from a technical person
- Added the facility for the Chef to send her curated content to her newsletter subscribers
- Users are able to browse through various recipes, see how to videos in preparing the recipe and even print out the full recipe all from one page
- Provided the capability to have tabs on recipe details page for US and UK measurements
- Added search capability for the Blog Posts
- Integrated the portal with the top social networks using best practices for social sharing
- With limited IT internal resources for site administration, the finished WordPress website will allow the Client to focus on building user experience and delicious content
- Optimized pages with videos for fast load time
