MyTime

MyTime is a national parenting program provided by The Parenting Research Centre. MyTime groups in each state provide support for the parents, grandparents and carers of young children (under school age) with a disability or chronic medical condition.

The Parenting Research Centre approached surfacemedia to design and develop an online resource to support the MyTime program and enable staff to self manage website content.


Solution


surfacemedia worked together with PRC to identify the website’s key functional requirements and to explore web development options. Next, interface design mock-ups were created. The designs were finalised via an iterative process that included testing with end users.

surfacemedia proposed a solution that included the implementation of a powerful and robust CMS that PRC staff would find easy to use. The system includes a MyTime Group registration process, Latest News, FAQ’s and a secure Members area that features Web2.0 tools such as Blogs to help the program build and facilitate an online community of participants. Flash media and XML have been integrated to enhance the user experience.

The CMS also provides sophisticated user statistics that provide valuable insights into user behaviour on the MyTime site and into how users are searching for content of this type on the web.

Since its launch over 100 MyTime groups of parents have been registered nationwide.

Visit www.mytime.net.au
Also visit www.abcdparenting.org


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Services provided

Functional Specifications
Interface Design
HTML & CSS Programming
Flash Design and Programming
Content Management (CMS)
User Registration
Blogs
Project Management


What our client says

"In developing online presence for two key parenting programs, the Parenting Research Centre appointed surfacemedia to provide concept design, full graphic design including navigation and specialised graphic rich content for both sites: www.mytime.net.au and www.abcdparenting.org

In both cases, Matt and the surfacemedia team not only responded excellently to the design specifications and creative briefs, but provided key guidance and expertise in areas like visual identity and accessibility.

Through the delivery of these projects, I found surfacemedia to be responsive, prompt and completely reliable when it comes to meeting our needs, even within truncated time lines.”

Derek McCormack
Senior Project Officer
Parent Research Centre