Arkaig Community Forest

Web Design and Build

Summary

  • A site built to inform, educate and inspire, locals and visitors about this community forest project based in the Scottish Highlands on the banks of Loch Lochy.
  • The website gives users an insight into how the team are helping restore the native biodiversity of the area through careful forest restoration and expansion.
  • Easy to update, responsive and intuitive for users to navigate, the site will develop to reflect the long term plans, aims and goals of the community board.

 

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Client

The Arkaig Community Forest is a community organisation working in partnership with the Woodland Trust Scotland helping to restore and revitalise the stunningly beautiful Caledonian pinewood forest.

The Background

Build14me were approached by a member of the Arkaig Team who had previously worked with them on a local project based in the South of England.

The Requirement

It was important that the site engage with and increase awareness of the work being carried out by the team at the Arkaig Community Forest as well as provide details of how the local community can get involved and benefit from the courses, projects and information provided.

  • Beaver Builder drag and drop page builder,

  • WP forms,

  • Dear PDF, a PDF flipbook viewer  

  • Seedpod, provided a ‘coming soon’ page whilst the site was being built

  • Smash Balloon Facebook feed

    We have set up Google analytics (GA4) and search console to ensure that client has an ongoing understanding of how the website is being used.

Our Recommendations

The wordpress site uses the Astra theme, a popular, flexible and free wordpress theme. Additional plugins include:

  • Beaver Builder drag and drop page builder,

  • WP forms,

  • Dear PDF, a PDF flipbook viewer  

  • Seedpod, provided a ‘coming soon’ page whilst the site was being built

  • Smash Balloon Facebook feed

We have set up Google analytics (GA4) and search console to ensure that client has an ongoing understanding of how the website is being used.

The Outcome

The site is already attracting audiences interested in the development of this historic woodland and ancient Caledonian Pinewood Forest.

 

Get In Contact

If you like the look of the Arkaig Community Forest website and want more information on how we can build a website for you, or would like us to help develop you a custom built website on Wordpress, please get in touch!

Contact us on: (01273) 670100 or email us at: info@build14me.com

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