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Creating A Community Hub

Nonprofit Neighborhood Association Serving 4,351 residents
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Home page showing a charming house in the neighborhood.

Screenshot of Home page with rotating images

Providing connection and access to neighborhood programs.
Security repairs and improved performance.
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Security and performance repairs

Security
The site had recently been hacked. Comprehensive WordPress security measures were implemented. The site was migrated to a hosting provider with security features included.

Performance.
The site was an enormous 30 GB (average WordPress site is 1 GB). Size was reduced to under 1 GB (712 MB) by cleaning out the database and items dating back to 2004. Load time was faster and performance improved.

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Extensive site redesign

Emphasizing functionality, style, new features and an improved admin process.

Functionality. Organized posts and pages, better user experience, installing a new, dependable theme.

Style and design. Energizing the drab, minimal home page with a new color scheme, updated typography and user friendly layout.

New features. Adding dynamic and interactive elements to encourage community involvement.

Improved admin process. An efficient dashboard and WordPress admin training.

A new, multipurpose calendar
Color coded tile display linking to interactive calendar on Events page
  • Home calendar display
  • Main menu for events
  • Calendar Events page
  • Event page example

Screenshots of the new calendar

Navigation: organizing a complex drop down menu
  • Screen shot of the drop down menu
  • Screen shot of the drop down menu
  • Screen shot of the drop down menu

Screenshots of the drop down menu

Navigation: Links and Calls To Action

Additional links in a variety of formats make it easier for visitors

  • Newsletter call to action button
  • Newsletter call to action button
  • River Navigation

Screenshots of button links and a river styled navigation at the bottom of the page

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Expansion

Home page additions

Community news, photos, fun links and colorful calendar tiles

  • The news feature tiled row
  • Call to action tiles for the blog and the newsletter
  • Home page showing a charming house in the neighborhood.
  • River Navigation
  • Calendar tiled row on home page

Screenshots of new features. Navigation, calendar tiles and slideshow

A monthly blog on sustainability

Grid of featured image links to previous posts, automatically added to each new post

  • Blog drop down menu
  • Sustainability Sam blog home page with logo and grid of posts with thumbnail images
  • Grid with blog posts with thumbnail featured images
  • Grid with blog posts with thumbnail featured images
  • Example of a blog post
  • Example of a blog post
  • Example of a blog post
  • Example of a blog post

Screenshots of blog entries

A page for monthly Minutes

Displays the current month’s minutes, with keyword or browsable search of archived minutes dating back to 2004.

  • Minutes page with current month's minutes
  • Minutes page showing archived minutes links

Screenshots of the Minutes page. Current month’s Minutes, search and archives