Case study - Novi Dorćol

Or: Maintaining websites doesn't have to be boring

Novi Dorćol is a fancy new block in the center of our beautiful Belgrade, and they wanted us to maintain their website. Of course we accepted! After the initial talks and agreements on what should we do and how often, we started with the work and discovered one thing: it's pretty straight-forward. Do we like straight-forward? Sometimes - yes. In this case - not so much. Why? Because we knew there is potential for something more.

What can be exciting in maintaining websites, for god's sake?

Everything! For example, you have to add new blog post with several images and few CTA. Why don't you make a responsive slider out of images, with headlines over them? Or, CTAs can be so much more than a link. They can be blinking piece of text which can't be missed. Now, tell me that's not exciting!

Maps can be fun too. Instead of having all the stores and commercial spaces listed in one boring, black and white list with the names we decided to make a map with their logos. Now, people will have no hard time navigating long hallways looking for the store 27B.

But, be careful.

It is important to know your boundaries. So we didn't went too far and changed the UX of the website because we're bored with some simple maintenance. No, we kept it interesting but still did a lot of backups and other manual tasks that had to be done. At the end, someone else did the website and it would be not fair to mess that work. We are here to help and make it perfectly safe, with a few helpful tweaks, and that's it.