Another Pobo site has gone live at innovate-fs.co.uk. It’s the first in-house design for a while, and I’m pretty pleased with it: it was tricky to try to convey the gravitas and trustworthiness required in the financial services sector while avoiding being dull. It took several iterations and some constructive feedback, but we ended up with a clean, simple look leavened with a careful selection of stock images and icons. Have a look and see if it’s on the right side of the line…
Wordpress is the content management system underneath the site, and WP continues to provide a wonderfully flexible and extensible basis for a wide range of projects. It offers a huge amount of power, and for free. It sounds too good to be true but it’s a rare exception to that rule. This site didn’t require too much in the way of fancy add-ons, but one plug-in that has proved itself worthy of inclusion in the pantheon (which I will create in due course) is Contact Form 7: all manner of options for creating form fields, validating them, requiring opt-in (to ensure a user has read terms and conditions, for example), spam prevention and nice feedback see it earn its place.