Certara

View: certara.com

Certara is a site I inherited from another developer some time after my tenure began at JK Design. Certara is a large medical software and medical consulting company. Their site provides (among other things) information about numerous softwares to help doctors test and evaluate different drugs and medical treatments; a detailed personnel directory; and a huge Resource Library of articles, citations, white papers, webinars, blog posts, and much more.

Another developer initially created the front and back end of the site. Following my take-over, I was responsible for a number of things with this large WordPress site, including:

  • Maintaining and updating plugins and core WordPress without downtime
  • Working from client-provided designs to implement the team page and team profile templates as well as the blog redesign
  • Working closely with the digital marketing team to implement various forms of analytics and tracking
  • Integrating the site with Marketo, including a “content locker” that hides content until the user submits a form
  • Implemented a custom sharing widget allowing the user to share content across LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook
  • Undertook a blog redesign and restructuring, including category/tag combination filtered archives, a custom category and tag sidebar, category-based headers, and more.
  • Undertook a staff/team page redesign project

Client

Certara (JK Design)

Responsibilities & Tools

WordPress, Underscores/_s, Search & Filter, PHP, Sass, Compass, jQuery/JavaScript

  • Certara’s homepage.

  • Certara’s Archived Webinars. Most of their content — save a description of the post — is locked until the user submits the Marketo form to the left.

  • Certara’s Blog landing page, part of a major Blog redesign and overhaul I undertook in 2017. The redesign included implementing designs provided by the client as well as custom blog functionality.

  • The Certara custom category and tag page, which combines both the category and the tag selection to custom-filter blog posts.

  • The Certara team page, redeveloped in 2016 to provide categorization and a new design.

  • The Certara resource library, showing a selection of their resources and the filtering options.

  • The Resource Library landing page, providing filtering options and featured content.