The Hincks- Dellcrest Centre

The HincksDellcrest Centre
www.hincksdellcrest.org
Goals
The web site redesign should provide visitors with a clear, engaging and
contemporary impression about the centre, leading to greater interest,
confidence and compassion for the centre’s initiatives, goals and programs.
 Completely re-do the website design to highlight Hincks-Dellcrest’s
services and overall mandate, while placing emphasis on its target audience
 Develop a wireframe that is logical and relevant to the user and one that
supports the amount of content to be presented on the website
 Post information that is of interest and value to the user
 Include a robust search engine with filtered search results to be present
on every page of the website
Industry
Non-profit serving mental
health-care
Partner
Inorbital
20 Maud Street / Suite 203
Toronto, Ontario M5V2M5
Canada
http://www.inorbital.com/
Tony Tullio
[email protected]
416-408-0837
The purpose of the website redesign is to:
 Create a bright, positive and engaging aesthetic for the website
 Design an interface that will accommodate the re-organization and
re-structuring of a comprehensive navigational flow, involving several
sub-sections and in-depth content
 Easily integrate micro sites into the same template
 Allow for the addition or removal of content-specific modules with ease by site
administrators
 Establish an unified organizational identity and increase and expand its target
audience
 Provide an efficient and cost-effective method of delivering current, factual
information and news and means of interactivity
 Promote and spread awareness of Hincks-Dellcrest programs and events to the
general public
Project type:
Mental health, family-centric
and service-oriented
organization. Full redesign
with unique page and content
management functionalities,
news and newsletter
management.
About The Hincks Dellcrest
Centre:
The Hincks-Dellcrest
Treatment Centre is a
children's mental health
centre located in Toronto,
Ontario, Canada.
The Treatment Centre serves
infants, children, and youth
who have mental health
problems. It also provides
mental health prevention and
early intervention programs.
The Treatment Centre is
partially affiliated with the
University of Toronto and is
accredited by the Council on
Accreditation for Children and
Requirements
Functional requirements:
 All aspects of site content to be managed by a CMS, including the landing page
image slideshow, subpage header graphical banners, page copy and all levels of
the menu structure; site content to be managed by multiple users
 Implement a news/blog functionality
 Ability to internally manage and change the promotion of time sensitive
information and imagery to feature and highlight upcoming fundraising events
 Unique page tools, including bookmarking, font sizing and print functionality
 Filtered website search results
Design requirements:
 Redesign the site to incorporate branding colours while introducing other
colours to embellish and enhance web presence.
 Tweak the wireframe
 Rename and re-architect primary and secondary navigation.
 Improve menu terminology
 Design should be flexible to allow for the implementation of new technology
and functionality on an as needed basis.
 Source positive and uplifitng images for the site that will appeal to families
dealing with children of mental health issues
Challenges
The primary challenge of this project was to create a clean, concise and
structurally sound interface to accommodate a vast amount of content and
a complex navigational structure that includes top, secondary and tertiary level
menus. The site also required maximum content management functionality by
multiple users, from managing the site’s graphical headers, to adding and updating
content, to creating and distributing newsletters through a back-end application.
Solutions
The updated Hincks-Dellcrest website was designed with a vibrant, contemporary,
clean and fresh look and feel. Each page contains a content-managed graphical
header that makes use of stock imagery, representing he centre’s target audience
and their mandate. The new site also incorporates an improved and intelligent
navigation and content structure. All functional requirements had also been met
with the use of the Kentico Content Management System.
Key criteria for selecting Kentico CMS
Implementation – ease of integration and the ability to expand upon from
a developer’s perspective.
Flexibility – highly important for us to be able to build and manipulate the
template based upon our designer’s vision.
Code – the code review proved to be enough for our developers to provide
approval in the Kentico CMS as the engine for this project.
Team Members:
Tony Tullio (Direction)
Giuliano Liker (Design)
Ken Yang (Programming)
Jennifer Lee (Content Design)
Support – We really experienced the great support from working with the Kentico
tech support team on an earlier project and as a result will continue to use them.
Cost – While the CMS is feature rich and functional, it is also very cost-effective,
making it an affordable solution to our associations and non-profit clients.
Features – Many well thought-out features that support today’s Web 2.0 solutions.
Technical Specification
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ASP.NET, JQuery and MS SQL Server
Windows Platform
Kentico CMS