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Football Foundation

The Foundation is the UK’s largest sports charity, investing £45m each year into community projects with a mission to improve facilities, create opportunities and build communities. The Foundation is funded by the Premier League, The FA, Sport England and the Government and as the country’s largest funder of grass roots football, has delivered thousands of facility and community projects, as well as free kit and safe goalposts, since its launch in July 2000.

The Requirement

Following a review of their existing website, the Football Foundation wanted a new site that provided easier navigation and other online services for visitors. A refreshed style was also important to bring the website branding in-line with other marketing materials.

The Solution

The Football Foundation website had been powered by EasySite since July 2004. After a consultation the site was upgraded to EasySite v6 to provide advanced features including increased flexibility and usability when creating content. In addition it allowed the Foundation to create new templates which met their exact requirements, giving full brand control whilst being used by different site administrators.

The EasySite Banner Management module gave the Foundation the ability to add banner images which could be personalised to the page content but would also refresh each time the page was visited. Directory Builder enabled visitors to search easily for news stories dating back to 2001.

The upgraded EasySite V6 core system has given the Foundation the ability to create an unlimited number of extranet sites through its restricted access capabilities. Extranet sites can now be created to restrict content to specific grants or schemes.

The Result

A fresh look and feel was delivered which was more consistent with other marketing collateral.

Improved structure of information and navigation has resulted in site content being more accessible to visitors. The ability to build extranet sites has allowed the Foundation to restrict information to registered users.

RSS feeds have ensured that visitors always have up-to-date information. Visitors can save feeds and receive automatic news from the Football Foundation Site.

The EasySite upgrade allowed the Foundation to create a new site which met their requirements of improved design, content provision and site navigation.

See for yourself, visit The Football Foundation's website

Football Foundation - [2.14 MB] See how EasySite™ CMS has helped the Football Foundation meet their content management requirements.