Site Editor

To address complaints from clients about our editor being too difficult to use, we added alignment guides and rulers, and updated the UI to focus on core features. These changes significantly improved the user experience and served as inspiration for our new site editor, Bentobox.

Due to the outdated tech stack used in the editor, performance issues started to arise as our user base grew, and our servers became overloaded. We tackled this problem by optimizing the SQL code, minimizing network requests, and only bootstrapping necessary data. While looking back, I realized that reducing the number of event triggers being fired would have been beneficial, but it would have taken too much time to test.

To enable responsiveness on our website builder, we had to store two sets of data, one for mobile and one for desktop. While storing the data was easy, rendering it posed challenges as different browsers render fonts differently and devices come in different viewport sizes. We had to overcome this through testing and tweaking CSS and other workarounds.

To expand the functionality of our main product, the site editor, we created several side products such as the Store Manager, File Manager, Form Manager, and Members Manager. These products were designed to seamlessly integrate with the site editor, enhancing its capabilities and giving it a more complete feature set.

To support our international clientele, we implemented multilingual support, which is not a common feature among our competitors. This required a site data migration, but we ensured the process was smooth and that clients could undo the changes if necessary.