CVO De Verdieping
Making 350+ courses findable
An adult education centre whose catalogue had outgrown a search box, and a site that no longer knew what was happening inside the school.
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Design
Custom work from the first sketch. No theme that a hundred other businesses also use, but a design that starts from your brand and your visitors.
That means wireframes before pixels, an honest look at who will actually use the site, and a design system made for you: colours, type, components, the whole thing. If you already have a house style, I work within it. If you do not, that is simply part of the job.
Development
Laravel and React. The same stack I teach, and the same one running a site with 371 courses and a live data link.
Fast, modern, and not boxed in by what a page builder thinks your site should be. Custom functionality is the norm here, not an expensive exception. If your business does something specific, your site can too.
Accessibility
An accessible site is a site everyone can use. Increasingly it is also simply a legal requirement.
That includes anyone navigating by keyboard, using a screen reader, or just trying to read small text on a phone in full sun. I build to WCAG by default. If you already have a site that needs to get there, I can audit it, explain what is wrong in plain language, and fix it.
Hosting en onderhoud
Een website is niet af bij de lancering. Er zijn updates, back-ups, beveiligingspatches en af en toe een aanpassing nodig.
Daar wil je liever niet over nadenken. Dus host en onderhoud ik wat ik bouw. Je zit nergens aan vast: het is jouw site en jouw code, en wil je ooit verhuizen, dan help ik je daarbij.
Fifteen years of building, and still learning
I am Bert Lempens. I have been building websites for fifteen years, and I teach web development at CVO De Verdieping, where I am also responsible for the school's website.
That combination is the point. Teaching keeps me sharp, because explaining something until someone else can use it is a higher bar than just applying it yourself. The school site keeps me honest, because it runs at real scale with real users.
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Let us talk it through first. What you need, what it would cost, and whether I am the right fit. No obligation.
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