Client: Foster Chamber of Commerce

Website: http://www.foster.vic.au

Information Finalist at the ANZIA internet awards 2011!

Instead of using a Council grant for printing old fashioned brochures to promote the town, the Foster Chamber decided instead to commission Loud Mountain to create and maintain a website which would be an ongoing form of promotion, a community asset and of course much more environmentally friendly.

The most important aspect of the development of the not-for-profit website was to create a business directory which funds the ongoing maintenance. Businesses can submit their listings online or via paper form.

A noticeboard was required for important information to locals as well as day visitors (recently used for flood and fire information).

Features

Business listings, events calendar, classified ads, users can upload content/business listing info etc, community noticeboard, latest posts, featured posts/listings are highlighted, Google Adsense ads management, blog facility for organisations, full CMS administration documentation.

Technical: HTML5, CSS2, Loud Mountain web hosting, @fontface fonts, 2 x custom post types, search engine optimised

Feedback

Congratulations on the Foster community website! It looks great ( and thank you for putting us on it : ) )
- Gillian Clarke, stockyardgallery.org.au

So glad to see this wonderful new website. What an excellent job you’ve done. May it go from strength to strength!
- Ros Wathen, Larkrise

The website looks really great. I hope that it gets used to its full potential!
- Janine, Insideout Clothing

Love the Foster Community web portal, well done! Keyword cloud is my fav feature.
- Sacha Lamont, Meeniyan Gallery

Terrific ‘beta’ presentation and we’ll all need to promote it whenever possible.
- Howard Plowright

Well, I think you and your team should be congratulated on a job well done! This website covers a lot of content and looks fabulous…and it will certainly help us keep up to date on things when we move to NZ!
- Katy Henley