Challenge is a non-profit organisation established in 1983 to provide children living with cancer and other life-threatening blood disorders with the opportunity to put their illness aside and interact with other children in similar circumstances.
Challenge offers services for families 365 days a year, which include camps, family activities, hospital and parent support, art and music therapy, financial support, & holiday accommodation.
Solution
Newpath WEB moved to design a website that provided the appropriate level of functionality required - where Challenge could update not just the text, but all images and the banners on every page of the site. With only nine staff and no in-house technical skills when it comes to web design, Challenge can appreciate the new website's simplified back-end, which requires very little training for staff to update this content.
The editing tool is as simple as using Microsoft Word and changes made are immediate. ’It's important not having to send something off and wait for a developer to make the changes. The flexibility has really changed both the way we use the website and the way others interact with it,’ Taryn Lupton says.
The site is based on ASP programming, uses Flash for added visual appeal, and incorporates and secure payment gateway facility, so that Challenge can now take donations online, along with sell merchandise and sell tickets to events and camps all through the website. Newpath WEB also hosts the site.
Newpath WEB worked very closely with many departments within Challenge from Commercial to Marketing, along with Mark Knight, the cartoonist and creator of Leuk the Duck; the character that features throughout the site and is the mascot of the charity.
Challenge is very pleased with the outcome of the project, and has received very positive feedback from both the children and families it supports along with its corporate sponsors.
