{"id":67636,"date":"2020-08-19T15:47:33","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T19:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=67636"},"modified":"2020-08-19T15:47:33","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T19:47:33","slug":"brock-badgers-launch-new-website-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2020\/08\/brock-badgers-launch-new-website-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock Badgers launch new website design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gobadgers.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">official website of the Brock Badgers<\/a> relaunched with a new look on Wednesday, Aug. 19.<\/p>\n<p>Brock Sports worked with SIDEARM Sports, the industry leader in university athletics website development, to bring Badgers fans a fresh layout and new design full of features.<\/p>\n<p>The new website serves as the hub of all things Brock Sports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know that now, more than ever, keeping our student-athletes well-informed is critical,\u201d said Brock Sports Associate Director Emily Allan. \u201cNot only does this new GoBadgers.ca serve as a crucial communication tool for them, it provides a modern and multimedia-focused destination for the Brock community and beyond to hear about the fantastic things our student-athletes are doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new design is the result of months of planning and design work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvaluating the need for a new website began last fall as it became clear that the current platform no longer supported the needs of Brock Sports,\u201d said Kate Dudley, Manager of Marketing for Ancillary Services and Students. \u201cThe new website allows for a greater cross-section of content to be showcased as we continue to grow engagement and outreach to our Brock Badgers community- fans, alumni, athletes, parents, partners and future Badgers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With easy-to-use menus, users have full access to the latest news, enhanced rosters, coach bios, schedules, results, recaps, photos and stats to provide comprehensive coverage of Brock\u2019s 33 varsity and club teams.<\/p>\n<p>The new responsive platform will allow mobile users to experience gobadgers.ca with the same features and information, including forms and manuals.<\/p>\n<p>A new media section provides Badgers fans with photos, videos and a robust volume of social media content.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUniversity sport is constantly evolving, so it\u2019s important for our online presence to also stay up-to-date and relevant,\u201d said Allan. \u201cThis website is extremely visual, but is also packed with helpful information for our students-athletes, fans and the community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>New stories, photos and pages will be added and updated to gobadgers.ca in the upcoming months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no time like the present to improve digital platforms and identify opportunities for growing the Badgers brand,\u201d said Dudley. \u201cWe are excited about the launch of the new website and look forward to continuing to tell the stories of our Brock Badgers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The official website of the Brock Badgers relaunched with a new look on Wednesday, Aug. 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":67637,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,58],"tags":[112,256,9366,9365],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67636"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67639,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67636\/revisions\/67639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}