About 3 months ago the guys from Richmond Hockey Club (RHC) (Nick and Andrew) gave me a call as they wanted to give their site a bit of a face lift and get some new functionality out of the site.
The RHC website was my 1st stab at a Content Management System (CMS) based website over 3 years ago now, and at the time Joolma was well established in the market as one of the main CMS contenders. WordPress at this point in time was still viewed as a “Blogging” platform… oh, how times have changed.
Anyway, I digress …. At about the same time that Nick and Andrew decided to contact me about the existing site, I was keen to migrate the RHC site from Joolma over to WordPress (my platform of preference). This was great, because it allowed us to start on a clean slate and really get our heads around what would be best for the club.
We had been running Google Analytics (a std on all Blue Doodle hosted website) on the original site since it went live, so we had a LOT of good information to help guide us in the right direction with regards to what the club members used and (more importantly) didn’t use on the site.
Nick was the mastermind behind analysing the Google Analytics (we may use him in the future new & existing clients – he just doesn’t know this yet) and came up with a brilliant heat map of the site so we knew what the members liked and wanted.
3 months later we have an AWESOME members based website with a great look and feel (thanks to WooThemes‘ canvas theme), some great looking and very dynamic online forms (thanks to Gravity Forms) and and handful of great WordPress Plugins to extend the functionality.
Go have a look (www.richmondhockeyclub.com) and let us know your thoughts!!
