Supporting global action for racial justice in education

Background

Global Action for Racial Justice in Education (GARJE) is a research and advocacy project that explores anti-racist education initiatives across the world. They approached us to build a website that would provide a collection of anti-racism initiatives and resources in a directory format.

Our Solution

We built a multi-lingual website with directory software integrated to allow easy management of the anti-racism initiatives and resources.

UX Research and design

Our UX designer started with providing a detailed sitemap confirming the website’s structure, cross link opportunities and conversion journeys. Once agreed, comprehensive wireframes of all the key pages were provided to ensure all the website functionality was covered.

Working alongside this, our designer established clear brand guidelines providing the client with:

3 logo concepts
Chosen concept worked to final artwork
Colour palette
Web icons
Typography
Consultation on photography
Basic brand guidelines

The last phase was to bring everything to life as a fully branded set of designs of how the new website will look in terms of desktop and mobile views.

Website development

We took the design comps and built a bespoke block theme utilising the latest block editor controls. We integrated directory software to allow easy management of their anti-racism initiatives and inspiring practices. We included some custom modifications to allow for specific search parameters and filtering.

WPML translation management was built into the theme to ensure the website was fully multi-lingual. We provided additional support in getting the website content translated into two languages.

Cookie compliance software was also integrated to ensure all tracking was fully compliant with Google Content Mode V2.

What we did:

Content writing support and planning
WordPress block theme development
Directory software integration
Custom search and filtering
WPML multi-lingual support
Translation management
Cookie compliance software integration
Google Consent Mode V2
Google Consent Mode V2

Content Management

One of our partners provided comprehensive copy writing planning and support to provide templates around which the key website content would be created.

We then took the content and populated it into the website directly as well as managing the automatic translations. The initial data for the directory was imported in via a spreadsheet.

In summary

GARJE needed a platform where they could showcase all the great anti-racism initiatives around the world. Since the website’s launch the feedback has been really positive and the website has become a useful learning tool.