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Turan Çölgeçen — Chef

A personal portfolio site for a chef based in Mardin

turancolgecen.com
Turan Çölgeçen — Chef — desktop view
10+
Years of Experience
14
Certificates
Mardin
Region

Overview

On paper, a chef's CV is usually reduced to a list of workplaces. Turan Çölgeçen's site turns that list into a story: a chef who brings the deep-rooted flavours of Anatolian cuisine together with professional kitchen discipline, and whose journey runs from trainee at a hotel in Antalya to chef at Mardin Artuklu University.

The opening screen is built around the idea of "discipline in the kitchen, character on the plate". Right below it, figures such as 10+ years of experience, 8 workplaces, 14 certificates and 4 kitchen sections count up on scroll, while a marquee cycles through hot kitchen, cold kitchen, à la carte, steak and grill, Turkish cuisine, Anatolian flavours, pastry and international cuisine.

The expertise section presents four stations — hot kitchen, cold kitchen, steak and grill, à la carte and pastry — on separate cards. The career section lays out nine roles as a timeline; private-sector experience at places such as Maritim Pine Beach, Cornelia Deluxe, Bodrum Park Resort, Big Chefs and DoubleTree by Hilton and public roles at university facilities are each tagged "Private" or "Public", so 7.5 years in the private sector and 2.5 years in the public sector read at a glance.

The education section lists high school, associate and bachelor's degrees and an ongoing thesis-based master's; certificates start as a short list and expand to the full set via "Show all". The contact section channels menu consulting, training and collaboration requests into a single email route.

The page is structured for search engines as well: the person, career, educational institutions and all 14 certificates are marked up as schema.org data, with an Open Graph image and profile-type meta tags for sharing.

Highlights

  • An editorial design built around "discipline in the kitchen, character on the plate"
  • Counters for 10+ years, 8 workplaces, 14 certificates and 4 kitchen sections
  • A nine-step career timeline tagged by private and public sector
  • Expertise cards presenting four kitchen stations separately
  • A 14-item certificate list that expands via "Show all"
  • Schema.org structured data for the person, education and certificates

Objectives

  • Turn the chef's experience from a list of workplaces into a readable career story
  • Create a professional showcase for menu consulting, training and collaboration requests
  • Surface the chef with accurate information in name searches

Solution

  • A single-page flow across about, expertise, career, education and contact
  • Career cards showing period, workplace, city and sector tag together
  • Keeping the long certificate list tidy with an expandable structure
  • Scroll-triggered counters and reveal animations
  • ProfilePage, Person and EducationalOccupationalCredential schemas

Approach

  1. 01Compiling the chef's career, education and certificate details
  2. 02Defining a colour palette, typography and visual language fitting the kitchen theme
  3. 03Building the single-page flow and making it mobile-friendly
  4. 04Structured data, meta tags and go-live

Outcomes

  • The chef now has a personal showcase to share their experience through a single link
  • Private and public sector experience reads at a glance
  • Certificates and education are served to search engines as structured data

Challenges

  • Telling a nine-role career on one page without clutter
  • Presenting 14 certificates from fields as different as culinary and maritime in an orderly way
  • Keeping a visually ambitious design lightweight on mobile

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