Elections Alberta

Website Development and Integration

Company Description

The Chief Electoral Officer is a non-partisan Officer of the Legislative Assembly, responsible for the administration of the Election Act and the Election Finances and Contributions Disclosure Act. As such, the Office of the Chief Electoral Officer (Elections Alberta) has a mandate to:

  • Provide guidance and supervision respecting the administration of all elections, enumerations and plebiscites conducted under the Election Act and the Senatorial Selection Act;
  • Provide guidance and supervision respecting the conduct of all activities under the Election Finances and Contributions Disclosure Act (EFCD);
  • Enforce, on the part of all election officers, fairness and impartiality in the conduct of their duties and compliance with the Acts; and,
  • Provide election officers with any information and guidance necessary to ensure the effective execution of the Election Act.

Business Challenge

Elections Alberta needed to update their website technology and web presence/brand. The current (at project inception) website (HTML) was developed in-house, but was poorly maintained and lacked standardization in development technique design approach and content organization.

Elections Alberta was looking to implement an enterprise level content management solution that, among other things, would allow non technical staff to create and approve content changes to the production website. In addition to implementing CMS, Elections Alberta was looking for an improved content taxonomy and organization. Finally, Elections Alberta was looking to develop the new website to be visually in line with a recent brand facelift.

Solution

Urban Lighthouse recommended and implemented RedDot CMS to allow for non technical users to update, manage and approve content changes to the production website. In addition to content management, Urban Lighthouse also reorganized existing website content and media to produce a more efficient and logical data hierarchy. A full SEO exercise was conducted with all web content and guidelines and CMS tools were produced to allow for search engine optimized content to be created in the future.

Urban Lighthouse also implemented the design that was produced by Red Communications (Election Alberta’s design company of choice). Additionally, user experience tools such as advanced content searching, send to friend functionality and printer friendly content views were implemented.