WordPress Customization – Impact Sciences Before & After


Overview: Impact Sciences. Update outdated Website design and provide content management system for client to make updates.
Process: Decided WordPress was the best solution for client to make easy updates. Researched and presented hand-picked WordPress themes and customized final theme to meet client’s criteria and functionality.
- Matched colors from previous site; copied & transferred all page text and images.
- Home page image slider, including custom graphics.
- Different colored section headers, requiring custom page templates for each category section.
- Swap location of sidebar from right to left side of page.
- Custom Home page template with custom Widget locations.
- Integrate social media.
- Customize code for separate images in header of each page.
- Secondary navigation for each section.
- Drop-down accordion address menu in sidebar.
- Custom default blog thumbnail.
- Custom CSS text spacing.
WordPress plugins used:
- Category Posts
- Custom Sidebars
- Email Encoder Bundle
- Google Docs Viewer
- Google Document Embedder
- Really Simple Captcha
- SidebarTabs
- Social Media Widget
- TinyMCE Advanced
- WP-DBManager
Software used:
- WordPress
- Photoshop
- TextMate
- Dashcode