Kahn, Litwin, Renza & Co.
- Category: Web design
- Industry: Accounting
- Responsibilities: Design, original HTML and CSS templates, ExpressionEngine integration
- Launched: September 20, 2011
- View This Project: www.kahnlitwin.com
Project Summary
Kahn, Litwin, Renza & Co. is one of the largest accounting and business consulting firms in New England, with offices in Providence, Newport County, Waltham and Boston. KLR is one of Envision’s oldest clients (our offices also happen to be located in their Providence office – so they are also our closest client), so when they came to us in need of a new site to better reflect the growth they have experienced over the past few years, both in terms of offices and staff as well as breadth of services, we were excited for the opportunity.
The original redesign of the KLR site went live in 2009 and it served them well for over 2 years, but the company's continued growth caused us to evaluate at the site's platform in mid-2011 to see if a better choice could be found to handle their growing publication needs. Specifically, KLR was looking for a way to publish content, and cross promote that content on the site, more effectively. With blogs, articles, press releases, and events all being updated on the site regularly, it became apparent that a CMS solution was in order for the site. Having used ExpressionEngine here on Pumpkin-King.com, I knew this was the solution I wanted to move forward with.
For the design of the site, much of the 2009 redesign left intact (such as the 4 column design on the homepage), but new additions were added (such as a jQuery powered slideshow on the homepage in place of what was one Flash). My original HTML and CSS templates from the 2009 redesign were used as a springboard to turn the site into HTML5 and bring it into ExpressionEngine. Once inside of EE, I did quite a bit of configuration work on what turned out to be a very, very large site with lots of publishing channels spread throughout the pages, allowing site visitors to easily find related articles and information based on the services or industry pages they are looking at.
In addition to the adjusted design and new CMS, the relaunch of the KLR website also featured a mobile experience, delivering a subset of the site's content with a layout suited to small screen, handheld devices. The content for this version draws from the same ExpressionEngine channels that the desktop site does, allowing KLR to maintain one stream of data that populates both versions of their site.
You can see the new site at www.kahnlitwin.com.