Wrcnepa.Org

When the WRC of Scranton, PA came to me for a redesign, their website was in poor shape. There was not main navigation or template, meaning the back button was used A LOT. way to much. It was a plain white background, and not to much effort went into design. It was also poorly coded. O, and did I mention that right click was disabled by javascript? Because it was. SO I had quite a task ahead of me.

We needed something far more esthetically pleasing that this. We also needed great functionality. There was a lot of pages and navigation to deal with, a a good folder structure was in order. So we broke up all of the pages (some 35 pages on the main navigation) into 8 main links, with mouse over menus bringing you to the other 27. I then created a folder hierarchy of those 8 main links with the other pages within. There was also an images folder and an includes folder to make my life easier. After that was set up, I started on the design. This was the first time I used a “drop shadow” background on the main content, and I like it. I also wanted to make a more image intense banner- since the last site was basically baron, I wanted to spice things up. A few nice effects in photoshop and we have an “involved-but-not-to-involved” banner. They also wanted a button for internet security. One of my favorite parts is the history page, where I implemented the “Lightbox” AJAX program to display different years in t he WRC’s history

When it came to the navigation, I used some javascript menus (the main nave works even without javascript enabled, so no worries). They also wanted the browser to close when you click escape, which I also did with some javascript. The final thing they wanted was a flash intro, which I gladly made upf or them. All in all I am pretty proud of the site- it was definitely the biggest I have worked on page wise. Which there was not to much programming involved, design implementation was huge. View the site here. Let me know what you think in the comments! Later!