The website was very straight forward, used to update the local community on the development proposal, let them know how to make submissions in opposition to the development proposal and how to send their submissions to the local council and federal and state parliament representatives.
The website uses standard Joomla articles with JComments by Joomla Tune for feedback. JComments is a fantastic Joomla component, as it allows visitors to not only comment on website content, but lets them choose to subscribe to that comment thread via their email. If someone else comments on the same article, the previous visitors are notified by email, hence encouraging online conversation around the issues presented on the website.
The email harvesting and regular email campaigns were key in keeping a steady flow of local traffic and eventually stopping the proposed marina development going ahead.
The website is still standing today, and the community group that commissioned me were successful in stoping the Marina Development. That makes two successful local community campaigns that I've built websites for.
