OBJECTIVES
To work with Blackwood Recreation Centre to redesign their website on WordPress while better displaying their services along with a modern look and feel.
KEY ELEMENTS:
- A bold and modern website that has the ability to grow with the business whilst presenting a large amount of content in an easy to digest manner
- A solution for updating fixtures, calendars and timetables with ease
- Training for staff on how to update the website
OUTCOME
Blackwood Rec is a recreation centre located in Eden Hills that provides a wide range of sporting and social activities for their community.
The Blackwood Rec team came to us in September 2019 with a view to overhauling their website. We could see from the outset that the design was outdated and the navigation was somewhat confusing. We were excited from the outset to redesign the sitemap as we could see that better navigation would be hugely beneficial. Furthermore, we could see that transitioning to WordPress would make life much easier for staff members that were needing to update timetables, calendars and fixtures.
Being a large scale project and many elements, we understood that a lot of detailed planning would be required. We worked closely with the team to strip apart the current navigation and create a more streamlined version, along with an accompanying wireframe that outlined the position of all text content, imagery, fixtures, timetables and links. Due to the scale of the website, this was worked on over a number of weeks until the Blackwood Rec team were confident with the new proposed structure.
From there, we moved on to providing a design concept. The new design incorporated their current logo, paired with a bold and modern colour palette and new stock imagery throughout. We met with the BRC team in person to work through the design concept and after some minor tweaks, we gained approval from our client to move forward with the build.
Due to the current website having ample content, the content gathering stage was rather straightforward with just some updates to text throughout the website which we guided the BRC team on along the way.
The most challenging part of this website build was finding a solution to make updating the fixtures, timetables and calendars easy for the staff. After thorough research and in depth consultation with our client, we found using a premium League Tables plugin, paired with .CSV and .PDF uploads to be the best option for what was needed. Extensive training was provided to the staff members, along with written instructions so that all staff were up to speed on the new process.
The outcome is a fresh and easy to navigate website that the Blackwood Rec team are able to update with ease.
blackwoodrec.com.au