eXplore.armadale.wa.gov.au Alpha Co-Development

Last updated: 12 March 2025, 03:36

This blog is used to communicate changes to the eXplore site as we develop new changes.

Date

Version

Feature

Description

Release 1.3.12

Improvements to See and Do and What’s On

  • Added Looking for More? Side Panel to Detail page

  • Fix to Date Ranger

  • Remove Audience & Cost

  • Removing past events from showing

Auth Now working across Explore and Service Sites

This deployment updates the look and feel and Bugs around Events into Production

Release 1.3.11

  • Apostrophe to Whats On, Title link for Creativity and Removed blurb from detail page

  • Add Our places

  • Updated link to VC from Our Places

  • event bookonline link

  • Parks and Attractions to See and Do

This Deployment pushes fixes for the Book online link in events, adds additional tags to see and do and adds the Our Places link to the header.

Release 1.3.10

  • Alternative Text

  • Include alt text for images. Prioritise blurb over title

  • Alt text using image description

  • Locals Recommend

  • Use Contentful SDK (REST) to query content

  • Hero Banner

  • Add placeholder image (poster) which displays whilst video is loading

  • Events

  • Filter on multiple categories

  • Filter on Free and Digital

  • Home Page

  • Operator carousel

Events & Search into Production.
Additional Bug Fixes and UX enhancements in the HomePage, Events and Search pages.

Release 1.3.8

  • Rich text renderer (Table / Downloadable documents)

  • Feature Flags Integration - Vercel Flags SDK

  • Cards - Add ellipsis to the end of card titles, if too long

  • Home

    • Add upcoming events if not enough featured events

    • Limit events to 12

    • Featured See and Do maps link use street address and only use lat/lon if the street address is missing

  • See and Do - Landing / Detail pages

  • Live and Work - Landing / Detail pages

  • Eat and Drink - Landing/ Detail pages

  • Carousel - Add slides per group property which moves the slider by more than 1

See and Do updated, Live and Work, Eat and Drink, Meet the Locals, and Events Pages have been enabled

Release 1.3.1

  • Enable Userway script

  • Remove greyed out accessibility icon

Enable full version of the Userway accessibility.

Release 1.3.0

  • Enable feature flag to allow navigation to See and Do

See and Do and detail pages have been enabled.

Release 1.2.9

  • Remove padding and make the background of the parent div transparent

  • Set input field background to white

Removing white background padding around join mailing list input and button to reduce the amount of UI space it takes up

Release 1.2.8

  • Change Locals title link (from #) to be consistent with the image link.

Updating the link location from the home screen to locals page which currently directs to a coming soon page

Release 1.2.7

  • Change background colour from white to #c0a4b7

  • Changed header icons hover animation to not move the items next to it.

  • Create a pseudo component on top of the header link to simulate its width when hovered over

Adding a background colour to the what's on in Armadale section to break up the all-white homepage.
Changed behaviour of header icon so that on hover the link doesn’t affect nearby links

Release 1.2.6

  • Coming Soon page redirection when Clicking on a card on Explore landing page.

This change directs a user clicking on a Card on the Explore landing page, to a Coming Soon Page.

COMPLETED

Staging

  • Operator Detail Page

  • Events Pagination

    • polishing events main page

    • tags on Event tiles

    • date filtering shortcuts (eg show events this weekend)

    • clear filter button for each category item

    • performance improvements

    • mobile view improvements

This Change Request is adding the Operator Cards Details Page, as well as bug fixes to the Events Pages.

COMPLETED

Staging

  • See and Do Page

This Release is an initial release of the See and Do site to get early feedback on the look and feel of the Page.

COMPLETED

Staging

  • Mobile View Footer - Phone Link Colour is hard to read.

  • Deploy Next.JS V15 Upgrade.

This change Includes an Upgrade to the Website System, as well as a Bug Fix to make the Contact Telephone Number appear more clearly on an Apple iPhone.

Release 1.2.3

  • Carousel Arrows to be Cultural Red based on Feedback from Users.

This work is a minor Change to adjust and embolden the

Release 5

  • Add Confluence Change Log Link called Site Roadmap to the bottom of the footer.

  • Skip to Content Feature in Utility Bar

  • Utility Bar Changes to alter Mobile Spacing of Links & Service Armadale.

  • Accessibility Icon falling behind cards on Mobile View.

This release adds some minor features to aid in usability as well as corrects some minor User Interface Bugs. It adds an Option to skip to content from the Utility Bar, and improves the look and feel of the accessibility Icon. It also adds a Site Roadmap Feature so that Users can be aware of the changes that have occurred.

Release 4

  • Remove Travel Info from the Explore Navigation Bar

  • Engage Armadale not in Page Footer

  • Utility Bar for Improved Website Navigation

This Update Brings in the Utility Bar to be able to access the Service Armadale and Engage Armadale for improved Navigation across the whole site.

Additionally, the Engage Armadale link is in the Footer; and Travel Info is removed from the header.

Release 3

  • Increase the Pop of the Carousel Cards

  • Add in an Accessibility Icon (Currently Disabled)

  • Terms and Services and Privacy Policy Redirect to New Website instead of Old. The Sitemap shows that it is coming soon.

This change is to make improvements to the Websites User Interface, including having the Terms and services Page, and Privacy Policy being within the new site;  Having the Accessibility Icon present though not activated as yet, and enhancing the way that the Image Slides Spring out when you hover over them.

Release 2

  • Altered The address and Phone number in the footer.

  • Created an email link to the Email in the Footer.

  • Applied email format checking on the Mailing List

  • Fixed the Whats on Menu item so that it Closes.

  • Enhanced the Video Pause and Stop Buttons to be further visible.

  • Changed the background colours of sections to be white for greater visibility.

  • Made sure Global Style is applied.

  • Added Sitemap

  • Added Login Icon

  • Updated the Traditional Owner Acknowledgement Spacing.

  • Removed Perth Hills from all headings.

  • Updated links and wording of the Development Site Blue Banner.

  • Updated Events to show Address if one is available, or Location if not.

This Change is to deploy some enhancements on the main Explore page, following feedback from Users at the City of Armadale.

This includes changing the background colours to be white, adding a login button, making the email link at the bottom of the page clickable, making sure a valid email is added into the Join Mailing List, and changing the address at the bottom of the site.

Release 1

Initial Alpha Launch

We have launch a very basic website that we intend to build on almost daily.