City of Boroondara Website

Background

The City of Boroondara is home to 160,000 people in Melbourne's inner and middle-eastern suburbs.

The council selected Datalink to re-design and re-develop their corporate website with the aim of bringing it up to date.

Solution

Following a consultation process, Datalink delivered an e-business roadmap, with the first stage focusing on re-designing the Boroondara website, giving it a new visual identity that instils continuity and consistency through the use of styles and templates.

Freestyler content management provides a framework for a distributed model of website authoring, by enabling non-technical staff to contribute updates.  A multi-level workflow system ensures that all content is approved before going live and a versioning system complies with government requirements.

A key aim of the site design was to make it compliant with W3C Accessibility initiatives for the web.  Several key navigation enhancements, such as an integrated search feature, sitemap and A-Z Index make it easy to find information within the site.

The site features innovative online consultations and a library subsite provide information on library services.

Datalink Products

• Freestyler CMS
• Form Factory
• Lithio Hosting

Datalink Services

• CMS Customisation
  
• Professional Website Design
• Information Architecture Consulting
  
• Implementation of a Content Management System
• Programming (PHP4, MySQL, DHTML, RSS, XML, XHTML, CSS)
• W3C Compliance audit

Technologies

• Red Hat Linux
• Apache