Youth Whittlesea
Young people were very happy to contribute and we are pleased with the result. The project was not without challenges, though Datalink were able to help us keep it on track.
Vicki Cooper, Youth Services Manager
Background
The City of Whittlesea is a major metropolitan growth corridor and has a diverse demographic, part urban, part rural and includes people from many backgrounds and multicultural groups.
The council selected Datalink to re-design and re-develop their youth website to allow it to be content managed and make it appealing to young residents.
Solution
Datalink conducted a consulting phase, engaging with youth focus groups to form a plan for the design of the youth website, giving it a new visual identity that instilled continuity and consistency through the use of styles and templates.
The site includes interactive features, such as the ability for users of the site to select a colour scheme or "skin" to customise it to their own tastes.
The site features templates that allow multimedia content such as YouTube video, games, MP3 files to be integrated into the website by non-technical council editors. The site also features a forum and events calendar.Datalink Products
Datalink Services
- Professional Website Design
- Information Architecture Consulting
- Implementation of a Content Management System
- Programming (PHP4, MySQL, DHTML, XML, XHTML, CSS)
- Content entry and copywriting
Technologies
- Red Hat Linux
- Apache
