Nice site.
I really like the feature of previewing the lighting with different backgrounds. Good stuff.
Client: Cantalupi Lighting
URL: http://cantalupiusa.com
Development Time: 6 months
Category: Business
Client Bio
Cantalupi Lighting is an international yacht lighting company based in Florida. Cantalupi USA designs high-end, custom lighting solutions for the marine and residential industries. They have over 1,000 lighting product solutions for their customers.
Developer: Expression in Design (XiD)
URL: expressionindesign.com
Developer Bio
Located in West Palm Beach, Florida, Expression in Design, LLC. provides web design and development solutions to businesses around the globe. XiD guarantees quality, usable websites that exceed your expectations. XiD primarily builds websites based on the Joomla! CMS, and offers additional support services to help your business succeed online.
Development Team
Jeff Brandon, Project Manager, kept the project on target, while Rick Blalock, Creative Director and Lead Developer made sure the code was semantic and the look was fresh and usable to site visitors.
The Challenge
Cantalupi USA needed an overhaul to their existing Joomla! website to match their high-end products with a new look and feel to the site. They were looking for a way to catalog their hundreds of products, allowing designers, engineers, and yacht builders to quickly find the light design they need. Additional SEO and Training was needed for their staff as well.
The Extensions
A fully custom designed Joomla! template was created to portray the up-scale look and feel of the products Cantalupi offers, and Expression built a flash slideshow extension to manage images on the front page of the site. A really nice feature of the site is the fully custom built search extension created to help users find exactly what they are looking for in the online shopping cart according to detailed specifications.
List of Extensions Used:
- Virtuemart - virtuemart.net
- XiD custom flash slideshow
- XiD custom search module
The Results
Joomla! provided the perfect framework from which to build the Cantalupi Lighting USA's website. The online store features over 600 products and was constructed with numerous customizations such as the advanced search/product finder listed above. Expression in Design continues to add features to the site, while improving SEO and online marketing for Cantalupi, as well as providing ongoing training for the company on how to manage their great looking new site.
