This project is significant for me because of it’s cause, though it was a challenge, too. The client approached me in an effort to save what can be saved after a company from the sub-continent left him with half-operational site that delivered approximately half of necessary operations. But to understand this, you have to know the scenario of the site.

The client decided to make a site where all patients suffering from renal failure could post their profiles, and all healthy people willing to participate in the cause can view those profiles and possibly decide to donate their “spare” kidney (more on this on the site itself). So, the site had to provide a way for patients to post their profiles, and for everyone else to have some kind of signed-up access so their actions can be tracked. The idea was that if a viewer watches the same profile more than 3 times, then something in the story moved him. Therefore, it’s OK for a patient to contact him and offer more information, thus potentially gaining himself a live kidney donor. But, of course, everything had to stay anonymous in an effort to protect privacy.

What I found was a WordPress-based site with no less than 30 custom templates, bundled with a bunch of custom code that was copied all over, so it looked more like spaghetti than a real programming job. Impossible to describe, really.

My first task was to fix sign-up procedures, and I did so by applying my knowledge on membership sites accumulated over the years of working for 2buy1click. Then, after this was operational, I moved to rearranging the templates into a usable whole, since the client decided to do a redesign in the meantime. On top of this, I applied VisualComposer so that the client can do the edits himself and thus save some money, if possible. The result is what you see now – a redesigned and functioning site. I must admit there’s more work to be done, but at least the cause is now gaining some attention 🙂