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Website for Personal Trainer

25 May 2011

Our most recent project nearing completion is both a logo design and website design for a personal trainer, dance teacher & Zumba fitness instructor – AJ O’Neill

Looking for a clean modern look we opted for an accordion type design with all the content contained within a few rather attractive ‘sliders’ meaning it was easy to navigate the site with minimal page loading. As elegant as this looked, we quickly found some teething problems when we decided to do a test run on multiple browsers such as sliders failing to load the contained content or failing to load at all.

Once we had this issue ironed out we slowly discovered a distinct lack of space in amongst the sliders which meant that we had to make a good use of the space available while keeping relevant information easily accessible. AJ wanted to be able to show his teaching schedule within an automatically updating calendar system that was easy to use and lightweight at the same time, however, we knew space was going to be an issue and so we decided that it should pop-out of the page so that it could easily be referenced with the rest of the site. In keeping costs down we discovered Google Calendar (because there’s no point in handing out massive amounts of money to develop your own custom calendar) which is a fantastic tool! easily sharing information with other users and fool proof to set up, it was a pleasure to work with and the end result is rather smart.

The design of the site is stunning – very eye catching and smooth and simple to navigate. This one is going in my portfolio!

The site is due to be fully completed in mid June so keep your eyes peeled for updates and developments!