Umbraco Illuminates Lighting
At a glance
- End client
- A global market leader in lighting
- Started
- July 2015
- Challenge
- Every website change went through a third party's API, at a charge, and the deadline was two weeks
- Approach
- A prototype website connected directly to the existing product database
- Result
- The prototype became the live website, giving the client full control of its product information. It was later rebuilt as a multilingual Umbraco site.
In July 2015 we created an ASP.NET website for a lighting manufacturer, connected to its existing database of products. The original website had been built by a third party and relied on that party's API to add and update products, with a charge for every change.
With only two weeks available, we built a prototype of the public website that connected directly to the database, removing the need for the third party altogether. The prototype became the final website, and the client could finally update its product information independently.
As the brand evolved, we worked with another developer to rebuild the site in Umbraco, reusing many of the models designed for the original prototype. Because the client is a global market leader, the new site is multilingual. We delivered much of the front end, including the document types, templates and language variants, and also made an associated document library responsive.