Notre Dame de Sion

Notre Dame De Sion

Sisters of Our Lady of Sion

A close relationship based on Branding, UX, Web Design and WordPress Multilingual Development 

Branding, UX, Web Design, Web Development, WordPress, MultiLingual

The Challenge

Sector 

NGO

Target Audience

Spiritual seekers/lay people and other religious looking to get involved with Sisters activities)/ Information seekers/ Historical resource seekers/ Media
Website Objectives

Give visibility to the Sisters of Sion and their guiding principles, and generate reflection, action and relevant enquires.
Technologies

WordPress , WPML, PHP, HTML / CSS, JavaScript / jQuery

Location

Global

The Brief

The Sisters of Sion are a Catholic organisation of about 230 religious women. They live in small communities in 22 countries around the world. Their average age is around 70.

Much of what they do is about being committed as religious women: praying, studying and teaching the Bible using both Christian and Jewish sources.

They are also involved in: building peace through interreligious dialogue; social justice work; social and environmental advocacy. 

The Sisters of Sion approached us for the brand refresh, re-design and development of their website. 

The brief was for the new website to be manageable and updatable (news, statements, course programmes, stories, etc) by a non-technical person in autonomy.
One of the main requirements was for the site to have four languages: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese. 

WordPress was requested for the development of the site, in order to ensure easy management of the site content.

Other requirements included:

Clickable core values
History timeline (with expand-collapse text and images)
Interactive map
Theme-based stories database, with links to particular stories from other pages
Schools in the NDS network

Publications page (bibliography style)
Study centre programme page (Formatting elements: date, time, time zone, location,language, course title, course leader, course mode, description, contact details for further information)

Website core strategy statement

“In order to catalyze an effort towards effecting global change in small steps, the NDS website will connect Christians and people of other faiths everywhere to the Congregation’s inspiration, guiding principles and action, and provide a springboard for further exploration, reflection and response.”

The Solution

Project Scope

Branding

UX

Bespoke Design

WordPress

MultiLingual

Search Engine Optimisation

Responsive

Resources

Website Designers

Front-End Programmers

Back-End Programmers

Project Managers

Quality Assurance Testers

As per the specific functional requirements, we delivered a website based on WordPress.

The first phase of the project was two fold: the UX and the creative.  A unique theme and set of content templates were developed based on discussions between the Lilo creative team and Notre Dame De Sion website and marketing lead. These were developed into a prototype ‘click through’ wireframes so the user experience could be ‘walked through’ and tested before the site was coded. Once the wireframes were signed off, our designers injected the Sisters colours and imagery and applied their talent and magic. Once the designs were signed off, our development teams set up WordPress with all necessary plug in and bespoke functionality and implemented the unique designs which had been created.

This project is mainly a UX and creative project, with emphasis on creating a journey which inspires the site users, easily taking them through resources and information. The site is available in four languages, with the support of WPML. 

The Result

The result is an inspiring website, easy to navigate and engage with and accessible in four languages. We delivered a high quality design and UX, supported by a scalable and easy to manage WordPress system, thanks to the close relationship with Notre Dame de Sion. We are very proud of the new website, and look forward to seeing it involve in the next few years.