Creating a unified digital communication tool for the largest GAA club in Ireland
Kilmacud Crokes GAA Club
Kilmacud Crokes is one of Ireland’s largest GAA clubs with over 5,000 members and caters for the GAA codes of Men’s and Ladies Football, Hurling and Camogie. The club fields approximately 130 teams across all age groups and levels.
History
We have been working with Kilmacud Crokes GAA Club since 2010. The first project we designed and built for Kilmacud Crokes was a website for the Hurling section of the club. A few years after that, we won the tender to design a build a new website for the whole club. Part of that project included migrating existing content from seven separate Kilmacud Crokes websites (from across five different content management systems) into one newly designed website and communication tool for the club. That website build also included integrating with match fixtures and results feeds, to give up-to-date information for all members.
Challenge
In 2023, the club approached us again to update the website design and build. The new website needed to be multilingual so content could be presented in English and Irish. They also wanted the new website to be accessible, conforming to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). They also wanted the navigation system to be improved to help users easily find the content they are looking for.
Solution
Designit designed and built a new website for Kilmacud Crokes, and migrated all the content from the previous website (over 6,000 pages). As part of the process, we sat down with the communications officers from each sport division and each advisory group in the club and designed a new navigation system that worked for everybody. The new website is multilingual (English and Irish) and is fully accessible. We also improved the backend of the website, allowing content editors to create more dynamic and eye-catching pages without requiring any web coding knowledge.
Visit the website at kilmacudcrokes.com
Client Sector
We have been working with Designit since 2010 on various design projects. Most recently, we asked them to upgrade the Kilmacud Crokes website. Kilmacud Crokes is frequently referred to as being the largest GAA club in Ireland with over 5,000 members. The project was a significant piece of work, integrating up to seven individual websites into one combined site for the club. A key requirement of the project was to not lose any of our archive articles or photo’s in terms of historical content. Frank was the ultimate professional in completing this project. We were delighted with the outcome and would have no hesitation in highly recommending Designit for all your web design needs.
Ronnie Murray, PR Officer, Kilmacud Crokes GAA Club
What was involved
Developing the Solution
We had to migrate content from seven separate websites which between them used five different content management systems to create one unified communication website for Kilmacud Crokes.
