CIW Web Design case studies

CIW Web Design · Put your knowledge to work in context.

The CIW Web Design Specialist is one of the vendor-neutral certification tracks offered under the CIW (Certified Internet Web Professional) program by Certification Partners. CIW certifications are organized into topic areas on the official site - Web Development, Web Design, Cyber Security, Artificial Intelligence and Financial Management - and the Web Design Specialist sits in the design track, aimed at people who build and maintain the front end of websites rather than server-side application logic. The CIW Web Design case studies are 5 cases and about 4,365 words.

Riverbend Community Center: Rebuilding Navigation Around Real Tasks

Riverbend Community Center serves about 12,000 residents with a $40,000 annual program budget. Its site was built in 2011 on a table-based layout and has not been restructured since.

878 words, about 4 min 2

Fern & Fir: Performance and Checkout Under a Holiday Deadline

Fern & Fir is an online plant shop with 1,800 SKUs and roughly 2.1M in annual revenue. Mobile accounts for 64% of sessions but only 38% of revenue.

878 words, about 4 min 3

Larkfield University Department: SEO Recovery and Content Governance

Larkfield University's Department of Environmental Science runs a 340-page site on a legacy CMS. Six faculty members have edit rights to their own sections; three update regularly, two have not logged in for a year, and one pastes content from Word, producing inline styles and duplicated markup.

853 words, about 4 min 4

Cedar & Salt: One Source of Truth for Seven Restaurants

Cedar & Salt operates seven restaurants across two states. A single site hosts a home page, one page per location, a menu page, and a reservations page.

886 words, about 4 min 5

City of Larkfield: Fixing an Inaccessible Assistance Form

The City of Larkfield's utility billing portal includes an online form for residents applying to the water-bill assistance program. The form has nine fields, marks errors by turning the field border red, and uses a CAPTCHA with distorted letters and no audio alternative.

870 words, about 4 min