New Site Design: Launch Site

Previous Site Design: Launch Site

Vital Technologies' web site needed a complete overhaul. The original site design by an unknown author consisted of numerous default.asp pages located in seperate directories, an animated flash movie for the logo header, and a DHTML drop-down navigation menu. Furthermore, the designer used large, blocky clip art images, and did not layout the pages using columns. It was not the worst web site design in the world, but it was lacking style, visual impact, and interactive functionality for the visitors.

The new site design implements the use of .HTML and .PHP pages instead, incorporating the use of several Content Management and Presentation Systems (CMS and CPS). These include phpMyNews, a CMS for posting news articles on the site, SmartFAQ, for maintaining a frequently asked questions database, and a vertical scrolling content pane for displaying photos, promotional ads, etc. The index.html page uses the original DHTML navigation menu and header template from the old site, but utilizes an IFRAME for displaying content pages.

Implementation of advanced DHTML, AJAX, and XML technologies include a RSS news feed ticker(s) that updates automatically and displays the title and date posted for each syndicated news article pulled from a remote server, and an auto-scrolling headlines panel that adjusts its position in the left column as the page is scolled up and down.

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