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Casestudy: Strathcona County Case Study

Alberta’s specialized municipality

Strathcona County screenshot

Strathcona County

Specs

  • 3,000+ pages
  • 24 municipal departments
  • Rural and city residents

Overview

Strathcona is called a “County,” yet its status is actually something that many people may not have heard of… a specialized municipality.

Launch Site

Strathcona County screenshot

Objectives

Lift was hired by Strathcona County to help create a new design strategy for it’s 2009–2010 website redesign. Planning and organizing the site was a challenge because of the large number of pages on the site (over 3,000) and the many local governments.

In the end, we were able to help the County bring together 3,000+ pages and over twenty departments into a more harmonious web experience.

Outcome

Through multiple sessions with local government departments, we were able to create more effective organizational patterns for the structure of each section of the website. With a solid architecture in place, we produced a series of page designs that were able to accommodate the wide variety of content and media types.

Site usage is up and residents are providing positive feedback.