The design collaborative has their original site created in 2005. Some of the techniques used on the website needs to be upgraded as they were inaccessible to many devices. They also wished that the interface be cleaned up and simplified. The original site had a custom backend (written by us) which need to be upgraded to give them more control than previously possible.
Exhibit, launched February 2010
The Design Collaborative
Website re-design for a Cape May County Architecture Firm
Technology stack used
Project goals
Solution
We rewrote the whole database and backend to now run on PHP/MySQL. CodeIgniter was used to organize the site's code and functionality. With new tools at their disposal they're able to control every page on the website including the data in the project gallery, the biddable projects area and even the solar energy savings data for the different school districts on the site.



The web in 2010
What was the web like back then?
Top browser
IE8
55% of users were using Internet Explorer
Screen size
1024×
768 on a 15-inch flat screen
High-speed internet
39%
of US adults didn't have high-speed internet at home
Building for the web in 2010
New this year
The iPad, Google Fonts and responsive web design all showed up. Steve Jobs said no to Flash.
Couldn't do yet
CSS gradients in Internet Explorer. They were still images until IE10 in 2012.
