Clark Construction 2.0

It’s with great pleasure that we announce the launch of a new website for one of the nation’s largest commercial construction firms, Clark Construction, based right here in the Baltimore-Washington region. It’s now incredibly easy to peruse Clark’s impressive portfolio, see the latest news releases, and learn about the company’s history and long-time commitment to quality. Although there is a lot of content in the site (hundreds of projects and news releases, and thousands of photos), it is well organized and logically broken up for ease of navigation. This contributes to the site’s clean, easy-to-navigate feeling.

The new site features a number of Flash and Javascript elements. Two of the most notable are the interactive company history timeline, and the interactive commemorative Clark hardhat. The site also features video integration and search engine friendly dynamic text replacement (which is a fancy way of saying that we were able to use a custom font, as opposed to the traditional web-based-fonts, for parts of the site without losing any ground with search engines like Google).

The site was also designed to be incredibly easy to maintain. A custom-built backend CMS enables the Clark users responsible for maintaining the site’s content to easily add and update projects, awards, news items and photos—with little or no HTML knowledge. The content can be linked in one-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-many relationships (for example, one award can be linked to many projects). A custom-created photo uploading tool enables the user to select which part of the photo to crop and use, while maintaining proper aspect ratio and respecting size limitations. Once the photo is uploaded, the user can even adjust the photo’s sharpness to their liking by using a simple and intuitive interface.

The site was built with standards-compliance in mind and validates as XHTML 1.0 Transitional. If you don’t know what that means, it’s ok. It’s web developer speak for, “We take pride in our coding and meticulously make sure it is done correctly.”

We’ve enjoyed working with Clark on this project to deliver a site that is in line with the caliber of work they do, and we’re pleased with the satisfaction they have expressed to us. Please visit www.clarkconstruction.com

and let us know what you think!

by Aaron Waldon