Pixel perfect web development for Riverside Quarter, Wandsworth, inc WordPress CMS (Content Management System) integration
Website design that looks absolutely stunning on desktop
Website development that ensures it also looks fantastic on mobile devices
Riverside Quarter is a stunning website with a very strong collection of images, videos and fantastic typography which always go a long way to ensuring that a website will deliver an excellent first impression.
Add in a WordPress CMS integration and you have an easy to maintain and highly performing SEO optimised website that is a joy to use.
Website development that simplifies the editorial experience but packs a punch in terms of functionality and SEO
WordPress CMS (Content Management System)
If we peep behind the brilliant visuals on the frontend of the website, we have a fully integrated CMS powered by WordPress.
We build websites with WordPress because it has zero limitations.
This means that during the design phase, a designer doesn’t have to curb their creativity and the clilent doesn’t have to curb what they want in terms of functionality.
It helps that we’re also WordPress development experts, having used it as our primary choice of CMS for over 10 years now.
WordPress also provides full control to Riverside Quarter to create, update and delete content as they see fit. There is no need to ever get back in touch with us again unless extra development work, outside the original scope of the project is required.
They can even share the load of the website maintenance through multiple user accounts, each of which can be set up with certain privileges that determine exactly what they should and shouldn’t be able to access.
Content Blocks Not Templates
The problem with fixed templates is that they are…fixed / restrictive.
During the design phase, there is a very fixed idea of how things will look. It can’t be any other way.
However to keep the website futureproof and to give flexibility, the website is built from a library of content blocks.
Think of these as digital lego. They all work together, can be used in any order and are quick to re-order.
Mobile first thinking
The website on the desktop utilises a lot of full screen:
- Images
- Videos
- Sliders
- Text
On mobile, these can create issues.
For things like images and videos, we can provide focus options. E.g. if the main focus of the image should be on the bottom left on a mobile, we can set up those configurations.
For this particular website it was decided that a configuration should be added to these blocks that allowed them to behave like a ‘normal’ image or video. In other words, the natural width of the mobile device that you are viewing the website on, determines the width and the height of the image or video.
This gives visitors a consistent and optimised experienced of the website dependent on how they are accessing the site and makes the experience really intuitive and enjoyable.
Google Rankings
Riverside Quarter can also take full control of their SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) to allow them to climb the rankings in Google.
This will push high intent traffic to the website, so the people that actually visit are “hot leads” and not random people that have stumbled across the site by accident.
Animations
It was clear that within the luxury propery niche, websites used animation to good effect ane therfore the Riverside Quarter website operates would benefit greatly from some animations. They provide that ‘cherry on top of the cake’ to elevate the website and improve the user experience.
Riverside Quarter have full control over these animations.
They may choose to create pages with no animation, sprinkled here and there or animate everything.
Again the beauty of having this control is that they can see what works for them without having to get back in touch with us as developers.