50,000feet: Lucien Lagrange Architects
50,000feet, a Chicago-based design agency, enlisted Masuga Design to implement their site design for the internationally-known architectural firm Lucien Lagrange Architects. Masuga Design took the supplied PSD’s and created a lightweight standards-compliant site that uses healthy doses of the jQuery JavaScript library to enhance the user’s experience.
The site requirements, which includes a navigation structure controlled totally by the client, are every bit as exacting as LaGrange’s architecture. This site features a very highly-customized “lightbox” and portfolio setup that resizes the lightboxed portfolio images to fit the visitor’s available browser area.
ExpressionEngine is the CMS used, which allows their staff to create some complex relationships between various entries under the hood, yet keep the maintenance of the site relatively straightforward. While building this site, I found a need to extend EE’s functionality, so I wrote a custom extension to modify some of the behavior of the Control Panel so the editors would have an easier time maintaining certain areas of the site.
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What Was Involved
- Development
- CSS/HTML/JavaScript
- ExpressionEngine CMS
