Description
The Corporation of Delta needs to communicate large amounts of information to the residents and businesses of, and visitors to, Delta. They required a new design that more accurately reflected the natural beauty of Delta, and they needed a system implemented that would allow Delta employees to easily update the site themselves.
Our team worked in close combination with members of Delta's staff in order to: 1) establish a design everyone was happy with, and 2) organize content so that it could be easily incorporated once that design was in place. With frequent project updates being created and amended by both our team and Delta employees, we were able to focus on outstanding issues and find the clearest pathway to the success of the project.
The first stage was to create an effective navigation system that would divide content into sections that would be easiest for site visitors: Residents, Business, Visitors, Municipal Hall and Mayor and Council. Redoubling our efforts with Delta employees on this navigation scheme allowed us to link pages where useful, thereby creating a leaner, smaller site without lacking any of the necessary content. This navigation set-up allows for minimum effort for site updates while still allowing for a widespread dispersal of the updated information.
The content management system was updated in order to allow all the functionality staff would need to make updates as simple as possible. Addition and deletion of pages, content and assets has rendered straightforward by using either ElementCMS' WYSIWYG or HTML code editor, and all content updates can be achieved through a web browser. Furthermore, a custom-built system for adding RFPs, Media Releases and Event Calendars kept the crisp site design intact while adding functionality that will be of benefit to both the staff of Delta and the website's visitors.
