John Kavanagh : Indie Web Developer

At the time this was developed I was working for a mid-sized marketing agency who’s intranet was old, ugly, buggy, and unreliable. The intention of this project had been to reduce the number of headaches and problems the current intranet caused by replacing it with an all-singing, all-dancing replacement, offering all the functionality that had either failed or never been included in their original intranet.

Designed by a very talented in-house designer this was always going to be a very attractive (and thus hard to develop!) website, I think the screen shots below can give you a far better idea of just how great this system was destined to be.

It was my responsibility to slice the designer’s artwork and generate a working static version of the site which would then have been integrated with CakePHP (turned into views) for the backend development team to add functionality. With the amount of gradients, drop shadows, curves and intricate design details, this was pleasure to work on and a challenge at the same time.

Sadly, the plug was pulled on this project before I was even able to complete the front-end so what you see in the screenshots is a strictly part-finished (and never IE6-compatible!) prototype of how their intranet should have been…

© johnkavanagh.co.uk

© johnkavanagh.co.uk

© johnkavanagh.co.uk