Details for Sofia Pilates

What you need to know about the project

Sofia Pilates is a website created for a Pilates studio, with the main goal of providing information about classes, instructors, and the schedule, as well as facilitating the process of booking lessons. The project is focused on easy maintenance, intuitive navigation, and an appealing design, developed using the WordPress platform and the Divi visual editor.

For the development of the website, we used WordPress, one of the most popular platforms for building websites, which offers stability, extensibility, and easy content management. To create an elegant and professional design, we chose Divi – one of the most flexible and powerful visual editors for WordPress, which allowed the team to create an intuitive and customized interface without the need to write complex code.

Challenges

Although Divi offers numerous ready-made modules and visual elements, some specific design requirements from the client necessitated additional customizations with CSS and JavaScript. For example, the need for custom hover effects and specific interactions with the site elements could not be achieved solely with built-in features and required manual coding.

Since Divi is quite "heavy" on resources due to the large amount of styles and scripts, optimizing the website's performance proved to be a challenge. To reduce page load times and improve user experience, we had to employ techniques such as caching, minimizing CSS and JavaScript, as well as optimizing images. We also implemented lazy loading for images to decrease the load during the initial page load.