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It has been almost a year since I formally founded E3 systems. When I did I had a clean and easy to understand website which leveraged the latest web technologies and looked good on all the major browsers. I decided to ignore IE6 because Google and Yahoo decided to. I was pretty proud of it but I knew as we were reaching our one year anniversary we needed a refresh.
I took inspiration from Microsoft's MSDN website. The good folks at Redmond are getting ready for the fall release of Windows 8 and are slowly changing over their web sites to have a more metro look and feel. I decided that I should do the same. This biggest challenge was finding an easy way to create the tiles and icons used in a Metro layout. Searching around Microsoft's blog network, I was pointed toward a company called Syncfusion and they had a tool which manufactured Metro style tiles. Armed with this tool I began the site redesign.
To avoid making the swap too jarring, I decided that I would only change the front page of the web site and keep the remaining pages in the same format with Metro style flourishes. I also wanted to make sure that users of the web site had access to all of our social media venues including our YouTube channel. I also wanted to see if I could leverage the grid 960 css frameworks. It was like putting together a complicated puzzle which would better appeal to our customers.
The results speak for themselves. The landing page contains all the information which old landing page did. The social media icons are not as distracting. Users do not have to scroll through the page to digest all the content. It also looks good on tablet computers and PC's.
Look over our web site and let us know what you think.
Until next time.
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