Mentone Grammar, Website

Brief

In 2009 Mentone Grammar recognised that a new website was required to replace its ageing website which had design inflexibilities and a problematic unscaleable content management system (CMS). The goal was to design and develop a modern, user-friendly website.

The website requirements were complex in that it needs to provide a marketing focus (for prospective families) and fulfil the needs of current school families, alumni and staff.

Solution

This project was large in both size and complexity and timeframes were short. Alaress provided digital strategic direction, project scope, functional specifications and multiple stakeholder management.

An enterprise CMS was developed to meet specific requirements.

Results

Alaress built a close relationship with Mentone Grammar (MG) to design and develop the award winning MG website. The project was a great success and picked up two national awards within the education and web industries for best website in 2010. Since completing the website and based on the feedback the school received from users regarding the high quality design of the interface and more, Alaress was engaged to provide all of MG&s print advertising and continues to support this client for all of the digital requirements

Here’s a snapshot of the fantastic response we received from Janine Mayer:

The project was an outstanding success, achieving the stated objectives on time and within budget with a contemporary, easy to navigate, visually engaging new website packed with features for all users. Feedback from users has been extremely positive and website visits are increasing.

We went through a lengthy process when selecting a website developer. This was important because the development of a new website is a strongly relationship based project. Choosing Alaress was the right decision for us. They are a young, dynamic, enthusiastic group of professionals, who are experts in their field, with education experience, and strongly value the client-supplier relationship. They have a real desire to solve problems and deliver a high-end product and a high level of service.

They are not only extremely competent technically, and listened to our needs and delivered against the brief, but surpassed this by using initiative to bring quality, innovative ideas for us to consider.

I was impressed that their three directors, Matt Sambell (Design), Sean Richards (Account Management) and James Leckie (Systems Architect) took an active interest in the project seeing it through from brief to launch and ongoing, bringing in similarly talented members of the growing Alaress team when required. Post launch they have responded well to our needs with effective solutions.

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