To meet AODA standards post 2014, the Stratford Police Department approached students at the University of Waterloo's Stratford campus to come up with a website redesign.
Using a sustainable CMS (Wordpress) mixed in with custom css and javascript, we created this website for the police department.
Click here to see the website.
My Role:
When deciding on the platform to develop this website on I had to balance a few key factors: security, ease of use and long term reliability.
I came upon multiple platforms such as Wordpress, Wix, Weebly and Medium. I decided on Wordpress as I liked the platforms proven track-record of staying relevant and up to date, optimal security protection, its easy to use Content Management System while also balancing its ability to perform more customized tasks.
In communication with multiple project stakeholders I designed and built the webpage to be:
Along with the website, I also built a custom popout widget that would sync to a Google Calendar XML feed which the current social media officer was updating on a regular basis.