Town of Okotoks

In 2020, the Town of Okotoks was looking to build on their site's success by adding customized solutions to a refreshed design and a revised, streamlined and user-centric site architecture to meet the needs of its community. At the time, their site was built on Drupal 7 and the Town was looking to upgrade to a Drupal 8 solution. The Town's website provides its users with a large volume of information and content which would all have to be migrated over to Drupal 8, along with any compatible integrations. This project also had a large focus on user-experience, as the Town wanted a site that was web accessible and easy to navigate.

Leveraging our in-depth knowledge of Drupal, we re-created the municipal site in Drupal 8 and migrated all the functions from the previous site. Our team members have extensive knowledge in content management strategies and a variety of content governance models. We leveraged this knowledge to combat the challenge of migrating such a large amount of content.

First, we conducted a thorough content audit and were able to reduce the site from approximately 600 to 400 pages. We also created a new sitemap that was intuitive and easy to navigate to enhance the user’s experience. The Town of Okotoks website was already an established and trusted community tool, so to ensure we met the needs of the community, we decided to do a public beta release phase to gather feedback from the public.

Before and After:

The Town of Okotoks' municipal site was successfully launched in October 2020. It is a modern, easy-to-use website for the Town of Okotoks' citizens, businesses and staff alike. Drupal 8’s extensive functionality combined with the staff training we provided resulted in streamlined processes and internal efficiencies. We were thrilled to continue our partnership with the Town of Okotoks by providing ongoing support services, and relished the opportunity to then redesign and develop their tourism site, okotokstourism.ca.