Launching Kinderregion
We’re super excited! The new Kinderregion website has finally launched and brings their motto of Great parents need great tips for trips to life.
It showcases a wide variety of exciting activities for kids. Families living in Switzerland can now plan a fun day for the whole family by browsing the site. Built on the same framework as Zurich Tourism, Kinderregion showcases highly engaging content that is structured, helpful and of interest to the user.
Nicole Blum
Thu, 03/15/2020 – 09:04
The idea
By building Kinderregion on the same framework as Zurich Tourismus, the new site would have to to offer highly valuable content in a structured and appealing manner. The events section should benefit from the main site’s interactive features such as instant filters and an interactive map based on React. As Kinderregion is a content heavy website, we would need to allow content editors to easily change the front page and the menu. Similarly, we would need the ability to deploy code and configuration changes without losing the customisations done by the client. Just as with zuerich.com, our idea to solve this was using the Panels ecosystem.
The most challenging part of the project
Creating something complex on a tight budget can be tricky. We were, however, able to solve this by re-applying certain existing elements throughout the entire site. Along the way, our team learned a bunch of new things and strengthened their skill sets even more. One highlight being how to override existing styling when working with the sub-template.
The Result
We implemented Kinderregion as a subsite of the main Zurich Tourism website, based on the Domain plugin. This allows us to share mission content across both websites and most importantly, benefit from the infrastructure that the Zurich Tourism Website already provides. We also added to the permission system and the reactive events filter section on the Landing pages.
The same layout used for zuerich.com is applied to Kinderregion, and is based on the “Panels suite”. It is built using “Panels everywhere”, which enables us to export the site layout and it’s domain-specific variants to features. Following the same logic, the home page is based on a panel page with different variants for each domain. The mega menu is composed of mini panels, loading into specific menu items through the use of the menu mini panel plugin. The consistent use of panels for all of these different areas allows the content editors to easily update the front page and makes it possible for us to deploy code and configuration changes, without losing the customisations done by the client. Hence, the sites heavy content is displayed in a coherent and captivating manner.
We loved collaborating with Zurich Tourism again on this new project and also really enjoyed working alongside the creative agency Rosarot Ideennetz throughout the process. All input and guidance has been super valuable and highly appreciated.
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