New site for Noahgene
Noahgene provide state-of-the-art molecular genetic services to animal and plant breeders, conservationists, and researchers worldwide. Their new site has been some months in development, but its now live, and making good progress up the search engines!
As normal with a website, we had a separate test version, visible to the client and her employees, where each proposed development could be viewed and adapted before being made live. We first looked at developing a DNA movie for them, but this did not work well given the requirements for getting information about the business over easily; the animation was too distracting…
In the end site we made some developments with our Javascript based slide show, to pause when the visitors mouse (or finger) hovered over a slide, so that the content could be easily read. Additional content appears in the hover state, so as not to distract from the slide image when this is in auto-run mode. This makes a change from our previous shows, where text content was normally shown in full to one side or below the relevant slide.
The slide background was a custom development, and is a codon-coloured DNA sequence from Arabidopsis (one of the species that Noahgene have worked on). To create this we built a small application that read (short) DNA sequences, and spit out the appropriately coloured codons.
The site is fully mobile compatible, offering easy viewing and navigation on screen sizes larger than 360px in width.
To see the final site, please visit Noahgene’s website.
