Pobl Group Website

About this project

The organisation wanted to update their public facing website to provide a better user experience for potential customers and stakeholders. Their old solution was built using WordPress and was very cluttered with content that was out dated and not maintained.

The business reached out to an external branding company (Toward) to help with the design with an in house team (myself and another colleague) to develop the website along with a new customer portal.

Features

• Modern Website: New look and feel with a clean looking design.
• Headless CMS: Easy to use cms for staff to maintain content.
• Page Builder: Allow staff to easily build site pages they want them.
• Page Preview: Provide users to preview their page before publishing.
• Customer Portal: Ability for housing customers to be able to self serve.
• Integerate into Dynamics CRM: Real time updates sent and received from organisations CRM system.

Technologies

• NextJs: A React framework for building static and dynamic websites.
• Tailwind CSS: A utility-first CSS framework for building custom designs.
• Strapi: Customisable headless CMS solution (self hosted).
• Azure & Docker: Hosting platform and deployement with CI/CD.
• NodeJs with Exress: For developing a RESTful API to allow for integration with Dynamics and other 3rd party applications.

Challenges and Solutions