The Professional Education Institute - MODx Re-design

The Professional Education Institute (or PEI) has been given a face lift! The entire site is happily driven by MODx, of course.

There are some final touch ups (primarily content areas and adding more icons/small images/etc) that I would like have worked on, but no show-stoppers here...the URL should be Live!

https://www.thepei.com

Thanks for the feedback everybody.

Very nice, even if I would prefer (a) différent(s) color(s) for the nav.

How is done the link bettwen the testimonial and the changing image at the top ? Ajax ?

Thanks for the comment, alchime.

For this site, the color scheme was predefined from the company’s branding guidelines, and for this purpose could not be changed as much as one might like. I agree that the same design with different colors could be a worth-while possibility.

As for the testimonial transitions, I coded this section using JavaScript ( MooTools - www.mootools.net ) and the images were created in PhotoShop.

Great use of Mootools there. Very inventive!

Quote from: Paintbox at May 22, 2007, 01:10 PM

Great use of Mootools there. Very inventive!

Thank you! It was fun to experiment with and other Fx.Styles

Just one question that popped up...I don’t know a lot about security, but as soon as I visit the site it goes into secure mode (encryption) Any particular reason for the front end site to be encrypted?

Quote from: Paintbox at May 23, 2007, 04:01 AM

Just one question that popped up...I don’t know a lot about security, but as soon as I visit the site it goes into secure mode (encryption) Any particular reason for the front end site to be encrypted?

This is part of the company’s proactive approach at securing their customer’s data and never taking security of personal information for granted. While there is only one contact form (as of now), everything is still transferred securely from the front end site, all the way to the delivery of the students’ content (and any of their personal information) for any of the company’s partner sites.

Consider it a comfort-layer for their partners (and students) represented from the very beginning. There will likely be other pages off this domain (non-front end) that will require HTTPS, so forcing every page also proves easier to manage by knowing that HTTPS is a Constant, site-wide.

As far as SEO is concerned, HTTPS does not have any negative effect on the SERPs or the ability to be indexed by the spiders.

Very understandable, sounds like a good way to approach security, and as you say, manageable if you adopt it site wide.

Very nice site! good job!