It has been a very hard three months here at Grey Wolf Design since we secured the Seekonk Speedway site re-design project there was really nothing to salvage from the old site. So, in that regards it was the best kind of redesign: nuke and re-build!! We evolved a new version of our Nb “new bits” content management system (CMS) to pull in alot of new features. The new site release ver. 1.1 is about 90% the final version. Some minor additional features were bumped to meet deadline after we lost several weeks during the warp-speed design & build track for the site. The office got selectively hit with a full round of the flu early on the project then near launch we had an utter collapse of the developmental server (ugh host to be named later!!).
After the visual design and sire information architecture was finally resolved full attention went into making sure that every element of the backend, admin, section was as user friendly as possible. To my great satisfaction, the client basically figured it all out, a good 90%, after I let them have a preview two days before training day. I did not even have to really do up training day presentation or screen cast. My meeting at the clients turned out to be a short relaxed huddle around a computer in their office.
We are making some minor changes and these are just small adjustments to make race result entry and related small form entry better fit the clients previous work flow. In addition we are already experimenting with some cool additional race fan out-reach and communication ideas to present to them…so stay tuned.