Web Sites for Energy@Work

Requirements

Energy@Work is a leading edge energy management company. Their mission is to achieve sustainable and cost effective solutions for our clients. We provide independent strategic advice and support in implementation to commercial, industrial and institutional clients seeking to optimize their energy use.

In order to reach out to existing and potential clients they need a web site that will highlight the work that they do and the impact this work has on their clients.

In addition they wanted to have a document management system that could be share with clients to keep them informed of the regular reports on energy usage. This site would need to securely and privately service multiple clients.

Implementation by RKIL

As a relatively small business, Energy@Work required a web site that allowed their own staff to update the site both with actual page posts as well as sharing their social media content.

RKIL working with Energy@Work’s graphic designer to create a look for the public site, then built a site using Squarespace.com. The site contains content created by the staff at Energy@Work, along with references to their Twitter posts.

In addition, RKIL created a private site which would allow the posting of documents for each client. The site was built using Squarespace.com as well, and with individual client passwords.

Web Sites for the Kiwanis Club of Ottawa

Requirements

The Kiwanis Club of Ottawa is one of the most dymanic Service Clubs in the world with 250 members, 100+ years of service, and more than $400,000 raised for the community every year.

The Club was an early adopter for web sites for a number of reasons including providing up to date information to members, information to the general public, as well as increase the profile for sponsors who participate in Kiwanis events.

At the same time, the volunteer service Club had to find a way to allow for members and office staff to keep the site up to date on a simple and distributed basis.

Implementation by RKIL

RKIL has been supporting the web sites for the Club since 1997, when the first site came up as a pure HTML site. 

In 2000, RKIL made use of the distributed ability of Lotus Notes to have a document management system which replicates information stored at multiple locations. The Kiwanis site was a Notes data base that allows members and staff linked to the system to create web pages by creating data base documents in the system. Based on categories specified by the creator, documents can appear at multiple parts of the site, and automatically appear on the home page for a period of time while they are current.

In 2012 RKIL migrated the over 2,000 pages from the site to use a content management system provided by Squarespace, and the Club has made use of this hosting service since that time. In 2017 an e-commerce component was added to allow the Club to sell Christmas trees on-line.

In addition to the main web site for the Kiwanis Club of Ottawa, RKIL also helps support a site for the Kiwanis TV Bingo, as well as a private photo site for members to share event photos, Facebook pages for the Club and the Accora Village Bed Race for Kiwanis, and Twitter accounts.

Web Sites for Camp Bonaventure and Salmon Lodge

Requirements

Camp Bonaventure, Salmon Lodge and The Club on the Bonaventure are a group of salmon fishing lodges located on some of the most beautiful rivers in the Gaspé, Quebec, Canada. These affilated lodges provide fly fishing anglers from around the world with access to some of the best fly fishing water and guides in the world. In fact, in 2013, Camp Bonaventure was named best fly fishing lodge in the world by Orvis.

In order to continue to attract guests, the lodges needed to have web sites that would showcase the fishing, as well as the ambiance from the lodges, the staff and the guides.

Implementation by RKIL

After consultation with the staff at the lodges, and partnering with Henneman Stanley Design, RKIL create web sites for the lodges that provided both english and french sites, and allowed the staff at the lodges to do their own weekly updates for both news and photos.

The sites also included video which had been prepared by a number of resources, and the site includes access to these videos.

Web Sites for Accora Village

Requirements

A year into the rebranding of Accora Village, the team at Ferguslea Properties opted to provide a refreshed site design to highlight the areas that were of most interest to the visitors the site. RKIL along with Deep Partners had identified a significant interest in the News and Events part of the site, was well as increasing traffic on mobile devices.

Implementation by RKIL

During the original implementation process, RKIL made use of its ICE (Infrastructure, Content, Experience) approach that allowed the updating of the user experience for the site, without the need to change the content or the infrastructure.

The new site got a streamlined menu structure, as well as a modified home page which increases the visual impact of the site, and allowed for selected call out boxes to focus attention on special pages. All of the existing content was reused, with no need to reformat or relink.

The site was migrated from IBM Notes, to Squarespace as the Content Management System.