Proportio is Thomas' bespoke company that cuts tailor-made suits and shirts for us, we had to make a website for Thomas.
This is not a text-oriented website, we had nice pictures (and drawings) and wanted to honour them by displaying them full-screen. Yet we needed a way to browse the website in an elegant and user-friendly manner, that's why we decided to make an app-like website that changes picture by swiping.
grab your iPad and try it on http://proportiomenswear.com/en/
The website is a delight to use on an iPad, it looks like an app.
Even the content within the screen navigation has to adapt itself. This is not Responsive Web Design this is tailor-made web design.
View on a 13 inches screen, Request a fitting is text-only
View on a 17 inches screen
When on handled device with a narrow screen, the display significatively changes to give the best visibility to images.
Of course all the website is driven by a CMS that copes with the different texts, languages, medias and the blog.
The choice of displaying high quality fullsize images on each screen, was a risky choice because we may have to load alot of big images in some sections to keep a smooth swiping experience between pages, it required a lot of optimization and thanks to SPIP CMS, I generate tailor-made images, and store them in server cache.
The server cache has to be huge, but my client-server performances are blazzing.
The server cache has to be huge, but my client-server performances are blazzing.
The spip-CMS back-office
