Umbraco Illuminates Lighting


In July 2015, I created an ASP.NET website to connect with an existing database of lighting products. The original consumer-facing website was built by a third party and used an API to access the database for adding and updating products. The third party charged systematically for any changes made.

Due to tight time constraints (only two weeks), I developed a prototype of the public-facing website that connected directly to the database, bypassing the third party entirely. This prototype ultimately became the final website, allowing the end-client to update any product information independently.

As time passed and the brand evolved, I collaborated with another developer to create an Umbraco version of the website. Many of the models I had designed in the initial prototype were reused. The end-client is a global market leader in its field, making the website multilingual. I handled much of the frontend development for this site, defining document types, templates, and language variants. Additionally, outside of the main Umbraco website I applied responsive styling to an associated document library.