Website Design to showcase an information resource and provide a critical link to the Facebook social networking group

Little Melbourne began life as a Facebook business - providing timely updates on activities and for kids, toddlers and babies in Melbourne. The following grew fast as people realised the content was not only up to date, but concise and well researched. Little Melbourne required a website to support the growing resource of information of activities and give users a permanent base to find things to do, as well as build on the sense of community.

Website Design Process

From the easy-to-read Facebook posts, it was crucial to create a user-friendly site that was quick and easy for parents to find information on activities that were relevant to their situation. We worked closely with Little Melbourne to identify the key categories of activities using a similar style of categorisation already being used on their Facebook page. We devised a simple template for dispalying the information so it was easy and quick to read for users.

It was recognised early on that the Facebook page would continue to be the 'up to date' resource of what's happening so that was to take centre-stage on the home page, along with a weather update and latest activity articles that were published.

Stage 1 of the site was released in November 2010. Stage 2 is now in its build process aiming to deliver more exciting usability and resources.