Jersey’s Parish of St Helier, with Blue Llama, has launched their new website, helping the parish to realise a fresh vision for the way it engages, interacts with and serves the local community – with accessibility for all at its heart.
Demand for online access to community resources has steadily increased, with annual visits to parish websites recorded in previous years exceeding half a million. But the St Helier website’s performance requirements and functional brief had evolved since its original build, with an increasing need for users to find information with ease and an intuitive user experience (UX), as well as enable the parish to update its content to keep it up-to-date, in-house.
The Parish commissioned digital agency Blue Llama to deliver a full website re-design and build.
The new website proudly displaying the blue and yellow of St Helier’s flag, is built with accessibility in mind and features a cleaner design, more user-friendly search options and defined resources for both parishioners and businesses. Available in several languages (English, Polish, Romanian, Portuguese, Thai) the site is equipped with Do It Online functionality which helps to ease the pressure on local services, opportunities to contact the Connétable as well as provide feedback, giving parishioners new and easy ways to engage and interact with their parish.
“We were really thrilled to be asked to work on a new website for the Parish of St Helier” said Phil de Gruchy, Owner at Blue Llama. “I’m incredibly passionate about collaborating with non-profits and local councils. They often struggle with limited budgets or dated technology, restricting the ways in which they can engage with, and serve, their communities. So I’m very proud that our team were able to help, and set the Parish of St Helier up for future success.”
The St Helier site completes the recent overhaul of all twelve parish websites to bring a consistent look and feel – and a similar functionality and experience for all site visitors, no matter where you live in the Island.
Blue Llama are now working on the second phase of the St Helier project to provide richer information and more self service options to businesses and parishioners. This includes the digitalisation of Jersey Dog Licenses which is also due to launch before the end of the year.
