Recent Projects: Wimborne Minster Town Council

Jul 2016

We have provided IT support to our local Town Council here in Wimborne for a number of years. And this month we have relaunched their website too.

The old town council website was clean, tidy and easy to navigate. But updates were a problem. Town council staff and councillors alike need to be able to contribute news and provide updated information to the Wimborne public. However with the old site requests for website changes were funnelled through an individual, who had to code up the changes manually. Nor was the old site mobile-friendly, and the council now gets a third of its traffic through mobile device.

WordPress is perfect for this kind of project. Council staff and councillors themselves are busy people. They need a simple to use content management system, but one that is accessible to several different editors.

So the solution was to convert the existing website to WordPress. We created a brand new entirely bespoke mobile-friendly WordPress theme, which matched the clean lines and simple navigation of the original site. Hundreds of pages and documents needed to come over from the old site. Migrating years of accreted website data is always an interesting exercise.

We also provided training, and help with migrating the many mailboxes used by the council and its committees.

Check out the site at: wimborne.gov.uk