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John Cannon Homes (JCH) was founded in 1987 and has quickly become a premiere luxury home builder in Southwest Florida. JCH's focuses on excellence with personal attention to detail with every home created. JCH is located in Lakewood Ranch, Florida and has built more than 1200 homes in some of the top communities in Southwest Florida.
JCH was looking to create a unique visitor experience on their website by telling a story of what it's like to live in a John Cannon Home. Builders can show portfolio pieces and reasons why they should hire their company but instead they took an approach of "It's about spending time with the people they love and building a legacy." Boost DFM was tasked with completely rebranding JCH and building them with a great Drupal website.
Why Drupal was chosen:
When reviewing the options, Drupal allowed the flexibility to expand on future features. In addition, the content management system was easy enough to update projects, press releases and other types of news. This site uses a fluid grid to create a fluid responsive experience.
Describe the project (goals, requirements and outcome):
Goal:
-Easy to use interface
-Site that was easily translated across 4 devices (large, desktop, tablet, mobile)
-Great grid/display for portfolio (homes)
-Once you click on a model, than a well displayed story of what it's like to live in a John Cannon Home
-Easily update portfolio, blogs, and press releases
-Ability to change out the images on the home pages.
-Have some sort of call to action on homepage
Challenges:
JCH's largest challenge was the proprietary content management system they were using before. Everytime they needed an update on a feature or the ability to add new features it was time consuming and cost too much money. In addition, their clients were visiting the site from mobile devices (research provided by Google Analytics) so they knew they needed a responsive website. John Cannon Homes are absolutely beautiful and their old website did not provide them justice when it came to the beauty of their homes. Giving them an outlet to display their homes no matter what devices and still allowing the website to render quick enough was certainly a challenge.
Outcome:
Boost DFM built a site using a 12 column fluid grid system to allow the images on the home page to easily size from device to device. We focused our efforts on theming the site to be as structured as possible so there was no hiccups in the responsiveness of the site. The beautiful models page was built using Views which most of the pages on the site utilized in some fashion. From a development standpoint, this site was built with all contributed modules except a custom page header module that Boost DFM build for another client that was used for JCH.
Technical specifications
Key modules/theme/distribution used:
Why these modules/theme/distribution were chosen:
Views
This site is highly functioning through the use of Views. Nearly every page was developed using content types and views including but not limited to the models page, blog, press releases, team page and more. It allowed us to cleanly display content while allowing the client to simply fill out the content type of what needs to be placed on the website.
Image Crop
The client needed the ability to position the crop on the image so they capture the content space for the image.
Project team:
Stephen Barker, Nicole Apostle, Vicki Reinabach, Chris Laney, Steve Boris
Sectors:
Real Estate
