Meridian Master Builders Website March 2011

Meridian Builders Website Design

A beautiful website design on a small business budget culminated in the Meridian Builder website. Based on a custom template design the final solution blended the existing design elements in the template with new features and content from the builder. The result is a great site that fit the budget and delivered a modern and contemporary website design suitable for the high end home builder.

While Meridian Builders is located in Edmonton Alberta there was little difficulty in dealing with the distance in the relationship. With Spincaster website design studio in Kelowna, BC, the project had to rely on webex meetings and strong, email and phone communication to complete the website development project.

When dealing with website templates and design there is a need to reconfigure and assemble page elements and supplied widgets with the design. This resembles an airplane model where you are handed a box full of components and your jobs is to assembly and integration the pieces to pull off the final concept. In website design we refer to this as implementation and website development work. This involves more technical knowledge in place of new design expertise.

What is important with this type of project? The first thing to consider when taking this approach is in understanding the client’s needs first and then looking for a suitable website template second. If you do not align the customer’s needs with the design you will be cramming a square peg in a round hole.  Planning is all-important here and identifying technical requirements like website galleries, blogs, news and events, and homepage calls to action needs are very important. Once the website requirements are understood you can then go and look for the right website design template that fits.

Spincaster supplied several services for this website project. These included, the website design template work, the planning and call to action development required. This also matched up with careful information architecture development. On the content side we managed several albums in the gallery tools and allowed for control of the website content and photos through the content management systems (CMS). Along with the CMS we provided hosting and support for the final solution. Check out the website design at www.meridianbuilders.ca.

I think you will agree that the website design works well for the small builder.