Web Portfolio
CONTENTS
Kadampa Meditation Centre Birmingham
Voluntary Web Designer & Developer
Outline & Requirements
A new website was created for a Buddhist meditation charity called ‘Kadampa Meditation Centre Birmingham,’ part of an international network of Buddhist centres and temples.
The requirements for this new system were centred on allowing people within Birmingham (UK) to book events online and sign up to memberships. It was also important to articulate the identity of the centre, their modern teachings and their close relationship with the community.
Design and development of the site began in September 2020 after initial considerations with the Education Programme Co-ordinator at the time, and the system was deployed in December 2020. Post-live tasks were taken care of and the site was handed over to the new staff in February 2021.
SERVICES / TOOLS UTILISED
Astra Pro®
LiteSpeed Server®
LS-Cache®
Complianz®
GiveWP®
WPForms®
KeyCDN®
Yoast®
Slack®
Asana®
Timeline
- PLANNING
& CONSIDERATIONS - D&D
COMMENCES - CLIENT
& STAFF TESTING - TESTING FEEDBACK
DISCUSSED - SECOND TESTING
COMMENCES - TESTING FEEDBACK
DISCUSSED - SITE
DEPLOYMENT - SITE MIGRATION
& POST-LIVE TASKS - SITE
HANDOVER
PLANNING & CONSIDERATIONS
JUNE 03, 2020
Discussions were held with the Education Programme Co-ordinator (at the time) to ascertain the requirements for the new site. After trialling Avada Fusion® with events booking plugins on one site and Elementor Pro® with WooCommerce® on the other, the decision was made to proceed with the latter.
DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT COMMENCES
SEPT 02, 2020
D&D was undertaken using Astra® with Starter Templates®, Elementor Pro® & WooCommerce®, centering on design, legal, security & administration. Discussions were held on WooCommerce® integration, tailoring it to the requirements whilst considering the current booking system for members and non-members.
CLIENT & STAFF TESTING
OCT 28, 2020
The site was tested by the client and centre staff, who assessed from several different perspectives, including administrational, educational, and customer-orientated. The client also provided information to include regarding about the centre, community and their grounded approach to meditation.
TESTING FEEDBACK DISCUSSED
NOV 12, 2020
Feedback was discussed with the EPC in several meetings, and tasks addressing these, including cleanup, stability & functionality and GDPR-compliance, were delegated between ourselves and recorded on Asana®. Priority was also placed on ensuring the site was ready for the client’s scheduled date.
SECOND STAGE OF TESTING COMMENCES
DEC 17, 2020
The second stage of testing was also managed and conducted by the EPC. Volunteering staff who assessed the website in greater depth highlighted areas including WooCommerce® front-end functionality, layout, internal links, UX, design, typography & formatting.
TESTING FEEDBACK DISCUSSED
DEC 18, 2020
Discussions were held with the EPC on the second, and final, stage of testing feedback including getting up to speed on where progress was at and agreeing on deploying the site at the stated date once the testing comments were prioritised and delegated.
SITE DEPLOYMENT
DEC 19, 2020
The site was launched on-time and on-schedule; the process was overseen by the EPC and lead by myself as we assessed the front-end and back-end stability and functionality and addressed any subsequent issues.
SITE MIGRATION & POST-LIVE TASKS
JAN 22, 2021
The decision was made to switch shared hosting providers; assistance was provided during the migration process, including assessing front-end and back-end stability and functionality. Additional tasks, including performance and SEO tweaks were also finalised.
SITE HANDOVER
FEB 11, 2021
The site was handed over to the new Education programme Co-ordinator during a meeting where tutorials on front-end and back-end maintenance and post-handover takss where outlined and any queries posed by the EPC addressed.
Testimonials
We are very happy with the website. It is very beautiful and meets our stated requirements well. Aman was a delight to work with. He is extremely meticulous and very keen to provide a high quality of work. He is very responsive to client requests and demonstrated a high degree of flexibility. He has a very good eye for design as well as a good level of technical expertise.
I would recommend Aman highly.
Kadampa Meditation Centre Birmingham
Aman was a delight to work, happy to take on board suggestions and committed to build a quality product.
Highly recommend him.
Kadampa Meditation Centre Swansea
(formerly at Kadampa Meditation Centre Birmingham)
I have always found him to deeply care about every project he has been working on. He researches it thoroughly and tries to always do the best possible job having really thought through his course of action.
Aman is a really kind, sincere and very respectful person; a pleasure to work with.
I wish him every success with his career path and wouldn’t hesitate to recommend him.
Kadampa Meditation Centre Birmingham
Achievements
A+
WEBPAGETEST®
A
GTMETRIX®
A
SECURITYHEADERS®
A
KEYCDN®
A
PINGDOM®
99
PAGESPEED®
99
GEEKFLARE®
99
FASTORSLOW®
95
SEMRUSH®
D&D Experience
Stack Experience
Additional Experience
Cloudways®
- Server & Application Deployment
- Staging & Development
- SMTP
- Optimization
- New Relic®
One APM
Gutenberg®
- Block-Building
- Widgets
- Permalinks
- Responsive Design
- Astra® Settings
- Custom HTML & Anchors
- Custom CSS Classes
Cloudflare®
- Analytics
- DNS
- SSL &TLS
- Firewall
- Access
- Speed
- Caching
- Network
- Traffic
SEO
- Organic Research
- Organic Traffic Insights
- Keyword Phrases
- Traffic Analytics
- Backlink Audits & Analysis
- Crawlers
SECURITY
- Security Plugins
- SSL & TLS
- Security Headers
- Wildcard SSL
- SFTP & SSH Terminals
- Hotlink Protection
CACHING
- Caching Plugins
- Minifying & Inlining
- Object Cache (Redis®)
- Heartbeat Control
- Lazy-Loading
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WEB PORTFOLIO
CONTENTS
Kadampa Meditation
Centre Birmingham
VOLUNTARY WEB DESIGNER
& DEVELOPER
A new website was created for a Buddhist meditation charity called ‘Kadampa Meditation Centre Birmingham,’ part of an international network of non-profits founded by teacher Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso.
The new site was built with the focus of allowing people within the local community to book events online and sign up to memberships. It was also important to articulate the identity of the centre, their grounded, modern teachings and their close relationship with the community.
Design and development of the site began in September 2020 after initial considerations with the Education Programme Co-ordinator at the time, and the system was deployed in December 2020. Post-live tasks were taken care of and the site was handed over to the new staff in February 2021.
SERVICES / TOOLS UTILISED
Astra Pro®
LiteSpeed Server®
LS-Cache®
Complianz®
GiveWP®
WPForms®
KeyCDN®
Yoast®
Slack®
Asana®
Timeline
PLANNING & CONSIDERATIONS
Discussions were held with the Education Programme Co-ordinator (at the time) to ascertain the requirements for the new site. After trialling Avada FusionTM with events booking plugins on one site and Elementor ProTM with WooCommerceTM on the other, the decision was made to proceed with the latter.
D&D
COMMENCES
D&D was undertaken using AstraTM with Starter TemplatesTM, Elementor ProTM & WooCommerceTM, centering on design, legal, security & administration. Discussions were held on WooCommerceTM integration, tailoring it to the requirements whilst considering the current booking system for members and non-members.
CLIENT
& STAFF TESTING
The site was tested by the client and centre staff, who assessed from several different perspectives, including administrational, educational, and customer-orientated. The client also provided information to include regarding about the centre, community and their grounded approach to meditation.
TESTING FEEDBACK DISCUSSED
Feedback was discussed with the EPC in several meetings, and tasks addressing these, including cleanup, stability & functionality and GDPR-compliance, were delegated between ourselves and recorded on Asana. Priority was also placed on ensuring the site was ready for the client’s scheduled date.
SECOND TESTING COMMENCES
The second stage of testing was also managed and conducted by the EPC. Volunteering staff who assessed the website in greater depth highlighted areas including WooCommerce front-end functionality, layout, internal links, UX, design, typography & formatting.
TESTING FEEDBACK DISCUSSED
Discussions were held with the EPC on the second, and final, stage of testing feedback including getting up to speed on where progress was at and agreeing on deploying the site at the stated date once the testing comments were prioritised and delegated.
SITE
DEPLOYMENT
The site was launched on-time and on-schedule; the process was overseen by the EPC and lead by myself as we assessed the front-end and back-end stability and functionality and addressed any subsequent issues.
SITE MIGRATION
& POST-LIVE TASKS
The decision was made to switch shared hosting providers; assistance was provided during the migration process, including assessing front-end and back-end stability and functionality. Additional tasks, including performance and SEO tweaks were also finalised.
SITE
HANDOVER
The site was handed over to the new Education programme Co-ordinator during a meeting where tutorials on front-end and back-end maintenance and post-handover takss where outlined and any queries posed by the EPC addressed.
Testimonials
We are very happy with the website. It is very beautiful and meets our stated requirements well. Aman was a delight to work with. He is extremely meticulous and very keen to provide a high quality of work. He is very responsive to client requests and demonstrated a high degree of flexibility. He has a very good eye for design as well as a good level of technical expertise.
I would recommend Aman highly.
Kadampa Meditation Centre Birmingham
Aman was a delight to work, happy to take on board suggestions and committed to build a quality product. Highly recommend him.
Kadampa Meditation Centre Swansea
I wish him every success with his career path and wouldn’t hesitate to recommend him.
Kadampa Meditation Centre Birmingham
Achievements
A+
WEBPAGETEST®
A
SECURITY
HEADERS®
A
KEYCDN®
A
PINGDOM®
A
GTMETRIX®
99
PAGESPEED®
99
GEEKFLARE®
99
FASTORSLOW®
95
SEMRUSH®
D&D Experience
DESIGN SKILLS
SITE BUILDING
BRAND & IDENTITY
UI & UX
RESPONSIVE
70%
85%
70%
70%
FRONT-END DEVELOPMENT SKILLS
SECURITY
90%
PERFORMANCE
95%
SEO
70%
WOOCOMMERCE®
75%
Stack Experience
55%
65%
30%
35%
Additional Experience
Cloudways®
DigitalOcean® Server & Application Deployment / Staging & Development / SMTP / Optimization / New Relic® One APM
Gutenberg®
Block-Building / Widgets / Permalinks/ Responsive Design / Astra® Settings / Custom HTML & Anchors / Custom CSS Classes
Cloudflare®
Analytics / DNS / SSL & TLS / Firewall / Access / Speed / Caching / Network / Traffic
SEO
Organic Research / (Long-Tail) Keyword Phrases / Traffic Analytics / Backlink Audits & Analysis / Crawlers / Organic Traffic Insights
SECURITY
Security Plugins / SSL & TLS / Security Headers / Wildcard SSL / SFTP & SSH Terminals / Hotlink Protection
CACHING
Caching Plugins / Minifying & Inlining / Object Cache (Redis®) / Heartbeat Control / Lazy-Loading
Contact