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Pedernales Electric Coop

Client Challenge

PEC, the Pedernales Electric Coop contracted with Steel Advertising to create a re-imagined WordPress website.  Steel's team completed designs in Adobe XD for build out in a WordPress environment using the Elementor page-builder.

Steel contracted with Standard Beagle of Austin, TX to complete the page and template build outs, including a javascript-based rate estimation tool for residential customers.  While the javascript was left "in-house" at Standard Beagle, I contracted to build the site, pages and elements as defined in the Adobe XD documentation.

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Technology Stack

  • WP_Engine
  • WordPress
  • Elementor Page Builder
  • Gravity Forms
  • GTranslate
  • Cisco Chat

LESSONS LEARNED

  • Ask more questions about technically complex elements
  • Spend more time going through client-provided designs
  • Do not underestimate time required to learn new page/theme builders

Results

  • Pages, templates and theme elements that work well cross-platform and browser agnostic
  • Improved Information Architecture
  • Enhanced presentation of content to site visitors

Custom Loops

Elementor lets designers and developers create custom cards for post-based content and allows for easy incorporation into responsive loop carousels and loop grids.

SAVED ELEMENTS

One of Elementor's strengths is its ease-of-use regarding saving templates individual page elements for repeated use throughout the site.

Accessibility

Designs compliant with standard WCAG 2.1 AA