Design Portfolio
Pool Professionals
Swimming Pool Management, Maintenance, and Repair
PoolProfessionals.com home page — Visit this small business site
This site is no longer being used by the company. All links on this page go to an archived version of the site.
Concept
The Pool Professionals web site incorporated the company's redesigned logo and identity package. A large part of the redesign involved rethinking the navigational structure of the site to make it easier for visitors to use.
In planning the site, the project supervisor's main interest was to automate previously time-consuming administrative functions related to managing a very large staff of workers.
Features
A custom program allowed the site owner to add two different kinds of messages to the site by simply typing a title and text for each message. The messages appear immediately on appropriate pages of the site. You can see examples of these announcements at the top of the page in the narrower right-hand column.
A similar feature allowed the training manager to type in details about the date, time, place, and any special information for upcoming training events. Employees could then sign up for these events on the site. Job applications were also taken through the site.
Sign-up form for training events — View the online sign-up form
When a site visitor submits a job application or training sign-up form, the program checks the data to ensure that all required fields are filled in. The program then sends the data to both the visitor and the appropriate manager by email.
The site uses a pure CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) layout and is fully web standards compliant. This makes the site fast loading and forward-compatible with emerging web technologies.
Future Plans
The project supervisor had unusually good copywriting skills. In a later stage, we had hoped to replace the current content with text that focuses more on customers' needs and concerns. We would have also completed the search engine optimization at the same time. These plans were dropped when the project supervisor left the company.
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