We’ve gone live with our consumer campaign for Adelaide’s Long Lunch. A pretty good day with over 20,000 consumer registrations on the first day and lots of positive media (examples below). Technical implementation is a Craft CMS landing page with Open Forms registration form and Campaign Monitor integration. Server has been upscaled to handle additional…
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Adelaide’s Long Lunch business campaign
We’ve kicked off the first part of our ‘Adelaide’s Long Lunch’ campaign. We’re inviting businesses to sign up to accept 5000 x $30 vouchers that we will be distributing to the public in March/April. We’ve built a landing page with Open Form and Campaign Monitor integrations to manage the workflow of businesses through an approval…
New Food Truck directory on CoA website
The City of Adelaide has retired its old ‘Street Eats’ app in favour of a new Food Trucks directory on the CoA website. The app wasn’t being used widely and had come to the end of its useful life. The new Food Truck directory is at: https://explore.cityofadelaide.com.au/eat-drink/food-trucks/
Assessment Books available digitally
Accessing these massive, bound, gold-embossed Rate Assessment Books used to be one of the main reasons why people would visit the City Archives in Topham Mall, Adelaide. These enormous books record the property owner and rateable value of every property in the City of Adelaide dating back to 1847. But it’s no longer necessary for…
Search function improvements on City of Adelaide sites
We have gone ‘live’ with some changes to the on-site search function on the CoA website. The search results are now more Google-like: they’re delivered in an integrated fashion (rather than segmented by ‘document type’ as they were before), the search is faster, and there are a number of cosmetic improvements (eg. outline box, thumbnail…
UPark Cost Estimator
This one was difficult! This new tool provides a cost estimate for customers who wish to park at UPark on a casual basis. For example, if I enter UPark Grote St at 8.30am on Monday and then leave at 4.45pm on Friday, how much will it cost me? The algorithm that Halton Stewart has built…
Popeye article on Adelaide Living
I’ve just published a new article on Adelaide Living about our ride on Popeye. https://living.cityofadelaide.com.au/adelaides-popeye-boats-heritage-icon-and-childhood-memories/
70+ trails in our Adelaide Trails and Guides collection
We’ve released a collection of city trails and guides. There’s no better time to get out and about in your own backyard. We’re inspiring local exploration of Adelaide with a collection of 70+ city trails and guides that are available online at https://explore.cityofadelaide.com.au/see-and-do/adelaide-trails-guides/. Whether you’d like to check out North Adelaide’s highly-acclaimed Musée Extérieur on…
Staycation dynamic pages with offers
This week we spent some time building out a series of dynamically-driven Staycation offers pages, powered by the Australian Tourism Data Warehouse database. We were able to turn these around in quick time with the help of Blis. These pages replaced a set of manually maintained pages – the new pages are much less labour…
Stobie Pole story on Adelaide Living
I wrote a story about stobie poles on Adelaide Living. The first stobies were erected on South Terrace back in 1924. Despite being an enduring solution for power poles in SA, they haven’t caught on elsewhere. https://living.cityofadelaide.com.au/stobie-pole-adelaide-icon-or-eyesore/
Smart City section on City of Adelaide website
We’ve taken a new section live on the City of Adelaide website – Smart City Adelaide. You can see it here: https://www.cityofadelaide.com.au/about-adelaide/smart-city-adelaide/ The section contains information about all our smart city initiatives, including projects that I have been heading up: chatbot, voice assistant and virtual tours
Accessibility of the City of Adelaide website
As a government entity, we need to give close attention to the ‘accessibility’ of our websites. This ensures that the content of our websites can be consumer by people who have a visual impairment. We’re held to an international standard known as the Web Content Accessibility Guidlines (WCAG). We’ve been doing some work recently to…
The Art in Adelaide online database
Still working on this one. There are 48 art pieces that are currently ‘live’ in the database. We’ve just imported data for the remaining 170 art pieces and the Public Art team is going to be busy adding the photography and descriptions over coming months. Visit: https://explore.cityofadelaide.com.au/see-and-do/arts-entertainment/art-in-adelaide/
Happy 1st birthday, City of Adelaide website
Launched on 27 June 2019, the City of Adelaide is now 1! Liz cooked an awesome baked cheesecake and threw a surprise party.
UniSA students share the stories of the city in a content collaboration with City of Adelaide
In addition to our content collab with Wakefield Press, we’ve also entered into a collab with UniSA, too. Back in 2019, Jeanmay H got in touch with Dr Ben Stubbs at University of SA. Ben is the author of ‘The Croweaters’, a book of stories about South Australia (it’s a great read BTW), and he’s…
City of Adelaide content collab with Wakefield Press
We’ve been working with Wakefield Press on a little content collaboration for our online storytelling platform, Adelaide Living. Wakefield Press is a proudly South Australian-owned and operated independent book publisher, based in Adelaide. Many of their publications are inspired by Adelaide local identities, events and places, which makes them a great fit for Adelaide Living. Since…
Context statements added to the City of Adelaide website
As the City of Adelaide website is a series of ‘destinations’ – different subdomains intended for different audiences – it’s important to provide some distinction between them, and some understanding of context for users when they first arrive. So we’ve made a small change to provide context through some on-page statements that have been baked…
Easy English Guide for COVID-19
The sheer volume of COVID-19 information out there makes it difficult for most people to absorb and comprehend, let alone those members of our community who have low English literacy, or have vision or cognitive impairments. To help, we’ve just published an “Easy English” guide on our website that explains which City of Adelaide services…
Nobody’s booking, so it’s the best time to work on our Adelaide accommodation options
We’ve done a bit of work on our accommodation listings on the City of Adelaide website over the past couple of months during the COVID-19 situation. These listings are powered by data from the Australian Tourism Data Warehouse. We’re trialling affiliate bookings through Booking.com to see if there’s a revenue source for the council. We’ve…
Digital and marketing support for City of Adelaide’s COVID-19 effort
The City of Adelaide is continuing to provide essential services to the community during COVID-19, including public cleansing, waste management, horticultural care, business support and customer service. Rundle Mall and the Adelaide Central Market remain open, with the latter offering a fantastic drive-through pickup service. Our car parking business UPark is offering $8 capped parking…