Left: After / Right: Befre
This project, Face Off, derives its title from the popular John Travolta, Nicolas Cage movie of the same name. Basically, we re-skinned the Cambro site without touching the internal code and functionality.
Cambro site in blue: before
Cambro is a global manufacturing company for the food service industry.
When I began sub-contract work with their contracted web development company JXP Solutions, the Cambro site was predominantly blue and featured an iris like proscenium over top of a Flash version of the popular sliding doors menu you see at the top of this (my) blog. The main complication with this Flash version is that it required a developer with current Flash applications and expertise to make changes to the images and links. In my experience content management seems to be a problem with many Flash apps in general.
Cambro in red: after
Even though the Flash application was modified to utilize external files, the iris concept along with the sliding doors was eventually dropped in favor of a wide format slide show. I rather like their choice and I think it turned out well.
My responsibility in all of this was to swap all the blue images for red ones, assist in the JavaScript that runs the slide show, and write the necessary CSS.
By showing a fresh look during a down economy Cambro visually assured their clients and stakeholders of the solidarity of their market position.
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