Project Description

YMCA of Central Kentucky

I have worked with YMCA associations for the past 7 years on their websites.  The YMCA of Central Kentucky, based in the Lexington area, is one of the first YMCAs I’ve worked with on the Open Y platform (more on that below).  YMCAs face unique challenges online as a non-profit organizations, still responsible for their unique website and content.  With hundreds of programs and activities, exercise class schedules, child care services, camps – many times across multiple branches – the content needs of a YMCA can be large.  Working with their teams to better serve their existing members, inform prospective members and organize all of that content is an awesome challenge.  And the great thing is, you can measure the results.  It becomes a repeatable success, and the YMCA of Central Kentucky was ready to take to fully take on the challenge of updating their old website to one of the fastest growing platforms for YMCAs online …

This YMCA is part of the Open Y movement.
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CATEGORIES

Graphic Design
Web Design
CMS Development
HTML / CSS / Javascript

TOOLS

Drupal 8
Open YMCA
Carnation Theme

0
Customized Products
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Technical Breakdown

This project consisted of migrating and editing the existing website and content.  Multiple staff members were involved in that content migration and editing.  Here are some of the highlights & features:

  • Drupal 8
  • Open Y Carnation Theme
  • Fully Responsive (Mobile-Friendly)
  • Custom HTML / CSS Styling
  • Program Registration (Daxko Integration)
  • Online Membership (Daxko Integration)
  • Group Exercise Schedules (Daxko Integration)
  • Giving / Donations (Daxko Integration)
  • Custom Webforms for Members
  • Google Analytics
  • Hotjar Heatmaps & Analytics
  • Google Cloud Hosting
  • Mailgun Email Notifications

This was a huge decision to not only upgrade their website, but to move it to a growing platform & community.  Remember, websites get old.  Spending money to upgrade every few years can get expensive.  This move now enables the YMCA of Central Kentucky to keep their website updated through an Open Source community and developer partners.  This is a huge advantage they now have with the new website … scalability.

Thank you to the team at YMCA of Central Kentucky for being such a great team to work with.  I’m excited for the possibilities and future of this platform, and for the continued relationship to make the best YMCA website we can moving forward.

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