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Semway AS

Semway

A Norwegian digital-marketing company whose website INFIGO has accompanied since the beginning - the first site when the firm started, the redesigns as it grew, and today the maintenance of a version built by someone else.

Started
2012
Role
Build & maintenance
Status
Live
Semway

Semway is a Norwegian digital-marketing company. INFIGO built their first website when the firm was starting out, and has been close to that site, in one role or another, ever since.

01 · The context

Over a decade, every website becomes several websites.

A company that lasts changes its skin every few years - new positioning, new design, new people with opinions. The usual pattern is that each redesign also means a new supplier, and everything learned about the previous build leaves with them.

This engagement is the other pattern: suppliers of the design may vary, but the engineering stays in one place.

02 · The build

First the site, then the redesigns.

INFIGO built the original site when Semway started, and then coded the redesigns that followed as the company grew - new designs, new content structures, the same hands doing the implementation each time. Every version ran on WordPress, built to be maintained rather than merely launched.

03 · The long haul

Today we maintain a build that is not ours - deliberately.

The newest design was coded in-house at Semway. The people who wrote it have since moved on, and the code they left needed someone who could own it. That someone is INFIGO: we keep the current site updated and running, on a codebase we did not write.

Taking over another team’s code and carrying it responsibly is its own discipline - reading before changing, updating without breaking, resisting the reflex to rewrite. A relationship that has survived a first build, several redesigns and a handover in both directions is what long-term engineering support actually looks like.

What we delivered

  • The company’s first website, built at its founding.
  • The coded implementations of the redesigns that followed.
  • Ongoing maintenance of the current, in-house-built site - a takeover, done properly.
01

The 2016 redesign, as archived

The version INFIGO coded in 2016: a photo-led front page with the services and client quotes below, on WordPress. Captured from the Wayback Machine; the live site has changed twice since, and the newest version is the one we maintain today.

semway.no
The 2016 redesign, as archived
02

Where it started, 2012

The first semway.no, built when the company was starting: a slider, the service grid and the team in the footer. The archive did not keep the slider images, which is why that frame is empty.

semway.no
Where it started, 2012

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