Blue Anjou built with Concrete 5 by Dirk

Posted on September 19, 2009 by Phil

It’s really useful when designers describe how their built their sites, especially when the site is for a small business. A beautiful example is the revised Blue Anjou site:

http://www.blueanjou.com/

Blue Anjou :: Home via kwout

Dirk has a succinct description of how it was put together over on the Concrete 5 forums.

I finally migrated our site from our ‘old CMS’ to C5. Using a modified version of the Superfish plug and the Image Slider. Also 960 Grid CSS framework.Custom Google Calendar block of my own making which is working pretty well and uses Textile filter to supply links to C5 pages.

concrete5 :: Finally Live on C5

Visually I like the way the home page, though quite dense, fits perfectly with the sites nature. The cork bord theme makes me feel like I’m already inside a friendly relaxed studio. I like the discount voucher top and centre, and the instruction to “Breathe” under the prominent list of today’s classes. Beautiful and usable.

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  • Thanks for the nice write-up.

    Haha ... yes, I've also thought it turned out a little more congested than I would have liked (sometimes difficult to visualize in first concept all the info needed to actually 'run' the business). But that's the risk you run of a "fixed" height/width design. Also, I am not a designer by trade, so I always have that excuse to fall back on. ;-)

    That said, I will be doing some post-launch clean-up during the next few weeks to try to give the homepage a bit more 'space', but all-in-all, I like how it turned out. Especially that virtually everything is editable from within C5.

    Note: this design also utilizes the "global scrapbook" (5.3.2) to make the Image Slider identical on all pages, but only requires one-time edits in the Dashboard to propagate changes to all pages. Very useful and overlooked featured of the Concrete Team's latest release.

    --Dirk
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