DBB was the first translation course founded in Brazil in 1969, by Daniel Brilhante de Brito. Since then, they have trained more than ten thousand students and, ahead of their time, they created an online translation course by e-mail more than 20 years ago. To keep growing their business and reaching more students across the country, they needed a modern website. So, I was hired to implement it as a freelancer and all that I had was their logo in a very low-quality image.
So I started by re-creating the same logo in Photoshop to have a better-looking JPG file. Then I moved forward to creating the layout following some Bootstrap patterns, which left the site with that “Bootstrap looking”. And I made the features with the slim PHP MVC framework I had recently created, MOJ. It was the first project using it and it ended very well.
The site is entirely updatable through an admin area. It’s possible to add new courses, members, and teachers, change classes availability, add/remove photos, update the testimonials and FAQ, etc. Everything they needed to manage the site by their own.
The biggest challenges of this project were to use a very initial stage of the MOJ, which required me to create many things from scratch, and the Mansory layout on the photos grid implemented with JavaScript, which was an innovation brought by Pinterest some years before and there wasn’t too much reference about implementing it at that time.
