I was contracted over the weekend by AfricaIQ to help them with some quick WordPress updates for their website – which needed to be done quickly since their site had to launch today. The changes consisted of mostly cosmetic fixes and updates – along with the development of a custom Categories listing widget, based off the default WordPress one – with the only difference being that it allows to hide specific categories from being listed.

Below is a shot of how their pages looked originally:

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AfricaIQ Videos Page (Before)
AfricaIQ Videos Page (Before)

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AfricaIQ Reports Page (Before)
AfricaIQ Reports Page (Before)

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The blue highlights everywhere were way too overpowering – and the listing of the reports provided way too much extra meta information that was simply not necessary. With a few cosmetic changes using CSS – the pages now look alot cleaner:

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AfricaIQ Reports Page (After)
AfricaIQ Reports Page (After)

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AfricaIQ Videos Page (After)
AfricaIQ Videos Page (After)

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It’s amazing what some minor changes can do for the entire look and feel of a website.

Published by Michael Boguslavskiy

Michael Boguslavskiy is a full-stack developer & online presence consultant based out of New York City. He's been offering freelance marketing & development services for over a decade. He currently manages Rapid Purple - and online webmaster resources center; and Media Explode - a full service marketing agency.

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  1. Amazing the sheer difference that a few slight cosmetic differences can make. Good work, as usual.

  2. Amazing the sheer difference that a few slight cosmetic differences can make. Good work, as usual.

    1. Thank you. There are a few more changes they wish to make in the future – and a few more I want to recommend myself. Budgets these days. You know

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