8th St Marylebone Scout Group - "The Diehards"
In 2002, 8th St Marylebone Scout Group in London celebrated their centenary and commissioned Sub@omic to rebuild their website to commemorate their 100th year and look ahead to the next 100.
This wasn't The Diehards' first Web Diffusion website, as the centenary website, pictured above, was designed to replace their first Web Diffusion website that was originally commissioned back in 2017.
The original Web Diffusion website had brought in so much hall hire bookings that the richest Scout Group in the UK
had sufficient funds to confidently grow their website further.
Diehards' responsive website home page.
Kandersteg, Switzerland, Image Sequencer.
Scout Gang Show responsive photo gallery.
Diehards' responsive website home page - HD desktop view.
Scout Hall hire website carousel.
Clear website directions for young and old alike.
The Diehards' website was the first to be able to use the manually selected website sub-navigation menu in the website footer.
The imageSequencer is used to display a gallery of responsive images as a photo gallery and history archive.
Downloads of historic and membership documentation to a tablet.
Inline graphics decorate the site navigation.
The Finder - Web Diffusion's site search engine.
Smart result grouping makes finding pages easier.
Information for Cubs packed-into the website and clearly presented.
Photo-rich pages make for great Cub Scout recruitment pages.
Membership applications are protected from robots and spammers by Web Diffusion's unique alfaRomeo form protection.
3 Year Tour Of Duty
The Scout Law binds young and old to do their best, to do their duty
and it's this spirit of service and excellence that underpinned Sub@omic's work with The Diehards website.
The visual identity of The Scout Association was 20 years old when a decision to rebrand for a different age; one in which social media, Facebook and Twitter competed for young people's attention. Scout Groups across the UK were encouraged to adopt the new brand identity and it was this request that coincided with plans that were being made for The Diehards' centenary year.
Our Promise
We had already seen strong search engine performance from our original Web Diffusion website and knew that we had a great platform on which to build a second generation website. Our promise was to deliver a website that continued to bring-in revenue from Scout hall hire bookings and evolve into a long-lasting record of the Group's celebrated history.
Doing Our Best
The Scout Group's ambition for following the lead of their parent association and establishing a presence that was modern, mobile friendly and engaging needed to be carefully blended with website content that documented the Group's rich history. Doing our best for this project meant developing a whole raft of new features for Web Diffusion so that the stated project goals could be hit.
This was the first website to deploy our own 'Finder' website search engine. A dynamic search engine that combines organic search with an innovative help system to assist with frequently asked questions.
It's unlikely that we'll see another combination of events which justify a third rebuild and we're wholly satisfied that this website will honour its role of doing its best and doing its duty for many, many years to come.
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