Introduction
Established in 1883, Fitzroy Football Club (FFC) became a foundation team in the Victorian Football League in 1897. The first to win a VFL grand final, Fitzroy is the only club to have played in the VFA, VFL, AFL and VAFA. Throughout its long and rich history, Fitzroy has won premierships in the VFA, the VFL and the VAFA, and holds a unique place in the hearts of Fitzroy and opposition supporters, the local community, and the VAFA competition it now plays in.
"We have a very wide and diverse following for an amateur football club," says Kate Nolan, Fitzroy Football Club's Director of Communications & Media. "People from overseas, from Brisbane, from all over Australia and all over Victoria will follow us, because of the long, historical link with the old Fitzroy."
"When I came to the football club roughly three and a half years ago, we had a very ancient website; it was almost tied together with a piece of string. It certainly didn't represent the modern football club or keep people up to date on the latest news. It didn't enable us to transact any business online."
Being a passionate fan of the old Fitzroy Football Club, Tim Jenkinson (our director at Fitzroy IT), saw that there was a real opportunity to do something great for the club and rebuild their website with Siteglide.
Siteglide features used
Discover some of the key Siteglide features used by this site
eCommerce Module
In tune with celebrating the football club’s success and enabling others to show their support, we have built a fully functioning eCommerce store.
Featuring popular merchandise and collector's items, with the ability to zoom in on these items' images; customers can rest assured knowing that they can experience a seamless and quick shopping experience in acquiring their much-loved merchandise.
While an often over-looked aspect of the checkout is the shipping prices and calculations, we have taken the hassle off the customers and our client by providing an auto-calculated shipping cost based on the dimensions of the product and the location of the customer.
Events
With the addition of the Events module, we have been able to showcase a list of upcoming (and past) events that our client's visitors can attend.
Featuring the ability to filter events by dates, search by keyword and view a list of all matching events in a clean design - visitors can easily scan through events and find the event for them!
View these events in the choice of a list or a calendar view, putting the focus onto user experience and intuitive design.
![Fitzroy FC Gallery](https://res.cloudinary.com/siteglide/image/fetch/w_555,f_auto,q_auto,dpr_2.0/https://uploads.prod01.oregon.platform-os.com/instances/1027/assets/images/showcase/FitzroyFC-gallery.png?updated=1637926323")
WebApps
We have implemented the use of many different WebApps with the sole purpose of making this content easy and simple to be updated by the website owner.
Ranging from a gallery to club policies, we have provided our client with a no code editing option that really enhances website updates and lessens the time required to perform these. Our client can focus on running a successful football team with no worries about updating this site.
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Zapier
Zapier has been used to integrate the website with Mailchimp - when a new email campaign is launched, it will also be automatically be added as a page to the email campaign archive section on the website, eliminating the need for manual input.
This has also been used to integrate ecommerce purchases and event bookings with Google Sheets, so information such as membership signups, player subscriptions and event bookings will all be recorded into a google sheet to allow club management to conduct detailed analysis / reporting of this data
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"Fitzroy IT has created something that represents the essence of our football club by capturing the brand really well," Ms Nolan said, "it enabled us to showcase a lot of great, strong imagery, capturing both the old and the new - the changing nature of the club. Members can also easily sign up to our newsletter or view our photo galleries."
"A lot of our transactions like purchasing and memberships were previously done manually and offline," Ms Nolan said, "It certainly has made things easier for us - it's reduced an enormous amount of manual transactions, which also means that it's much quicker for us to have people make bookings or purchases online. Now, all event bookings and payments are made online. It all works very well. We have a shop online and people can even order things from overseas."
"Tim, Justin and the rest of the Fitzroy IT team have all done an enormous amount of work with us to get the site up and running and to keep it going; nothing is ever too much effort for them. As an in-kind sponsor, they support us all year round, whether it's helping us make changes or adding new features. Fitzroy IT always goes beyond our expectations: they want to keep things improving, they're committed to it, and they maintain their involvement with the club, which is great! They're always thinking about how they can support us."
"The Fitzroy IT philosophy is important in terms of continually reviewing and making sure things are still working as they should. Each year, we go through a review of how the business can improve."
"They definitely bring those ideas forward and are always happy to look at how we can work more effectively, so I enjoy working with them from that perspective as well".
Kate Nolan, Director of Fitzroy Football Club
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