The City of Penticton is a busy urban centre, situated between two gorgeous lakes in the Okanagan Valley. The area is famous for sandy beaches and more than 80 lush vineyards typically packed with tourists in the hot summer months. With its popularity as a vacation spot, the City serves three distinct and important audiences: locals, businesses, and visitors. The municipal website is an important hub for these audiences to access information and connect with City services. Throughout this project Upanup provided a content strategy, user-focused design, custom Drupal 8 solution and an app design and release.
About the project
To achieve their aim of a website that is modern, mobile-first, scalable website we not only helped the City launch a new website, but created a corresponding mobile app as well. Our team worked with the City and a local content consultant to fully transform their sitemap and content, making it much easier for people to locate information. The new menu needed to be intuitive and content needed to be organized for three distinct audiences. We customized our best-practices Drupal 8 municipal solution to launch a flexible website and app that serve the City's needs. The City's new website features a very unique homepage, where different content displays if the user selects to view as a resident, business, or visitor. Pages feature scannable icons and clear, concise information. The vertical main menu design is mobile-first for an easy-to-navigate user experience on every screen size.
Why Drupal was chosen
Drupal was the chosen CMS because the City of Penticton sought a scalable, leading-edge solution that offers greater functionality and ease-of-use for their audiences and staff. Drupal's back-end is very user-friendly making it easy for staff to create and manage website content and would streamline workloads for their Communication Team.
Technical Specifications
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