Cavallo Chiropractic
Dr. Lou is a chiropractor in Longmont, Colorado with over 20 years experience. He focuses on soft tissue injuries from sports, work, and auto accidents. He also specializes in non-surgical treatment for disc and nerve injuries. He utilize various adjusting techniques in my practice to fit my patients’ needs. These techniques include diversified adjusting, Gravitational Pattern Alignment, sacro-occipital, activator adjusting, trigger point therapy and therapeutic exercise.
01. Approach
This project required a tight deadline and we were able to get everything up and running in about 2 and a half weeks because of the hands on quick decisions from the owners and a little overtime on our behalf. Requirements for this project included providing a high end look and feel and giving visitors the feel of elegance. Visitors to the site needed to see some of the impressive clientelle that we had serviced in the past so they would have confidence that Cavallo Chiropractic was the right company for the job.
02. Design
The logo was already done, so in order to keep the branding similar we utilized the main colors of the logo as the two starter colors. This project also included the need for some lighter background colors to differentiate sections so we matched the original logo colors and found complimentary lighter shades that would give us a matching look and lighter background color. The font choice "Nexa" which is readeable and elegant. We used both Nexa regular and Nexa bold for different sections of the verbiage.
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03. Technology
This project was a totally responsive design based on CSS Grid Layout with a Flexbox fallback. That means the project is not reliant on an outside library of code like Bootstrap to be fully responsive. The starting point was HTML5 Boilerplate to make sure the project was utilizing current best practices and most browser based styling was reset using Normalize.css. We don't utilize templates so all coding was done by hand using the Brackets code editor. The Platinum team is also able to add blog articles, maintain the verbiage and images on the site by utlizing Perch as the content management system. Every page in the project was tested and confirmed to be W3C compliant. All css files are modular in nature so Gulp was used to combine and condense all CSS files in the final project. The slowest loading web page according to GTMetrix.com was approximately 1.6 seconds with most pages average loading times being less than 1.5 seconds. CSS and javascript animation was created by using the following libraries Animate.css, Hover.css, Hint.css & T-Scroll. Other code and libraries used include Modernizr, jQuery, MagnificPop, Easy Responsive Tabs, Akismet, Google Analytics. Software utilized to create this project included Brackets, Photoshop, Perch CMS, VectorMagic.com and CompressPNG.com.
The coding and software skills used by Colorado SEO Design to make this project take off included:
- Photoshop
- PHP
- HTML5
- CSS3
- Javascript
- JSON
- Schema.org markup
