During my time with New Zealand Defence Force, I worked with many websites based on the Microsoft CMS. Microsoft CMS is a product of circa 2003 – which is pretty old school in web terms! One of the things I did enjoy about working in this challenging environment was trying to get the most of the products I had to work with. My last few weeks in the Defence Force were spent reskinning this site using the existing templates and functionality. It really is amazing the change you can make if you are ready to just dive in and give it a go.
I completed both the coding and design for this new look and it’s one of the sites I’ve worked on that I am most proud of.
This is what the old site looked like:
