The City Mission ~ Cleveland, OH

On October 1910, The City Mission opened following a mass meeting conducted by Mel Trotter. Trotter had been invited by city and church leaders to help start The City Mission here in Cleveland. The City Mission’s first superintendent was Mr. George Soerheide. With Soerheide’s faithful leadership, The City Mission moved from its original facility – a former saloon – at 1135 Superior Avenue to 1318 St. Clair Avenue NE in 1913, and then to a larger building at 801 East St. Clair Avenue in 1926. Services provided by TCM included a wide variety of Bible classes and Sunday School for all ages, assistance for the homeless, food baskets for the hungry, a prison ministry, and various clubs and activities for local residents.

When The City Mission first worked with True North Strategies, it was to redesign their web site. The result was in moving away from a standard layout to a more aesthetically pleasing site. This site has gone through several changes of the organization's staff and as such it has become more vital for information and less so for aesthetics. In April of 2007 another redesign was completed enabling a visually pleasing site that can also accommodate the enormous amount of changing data.

 

Making the change

The new site engages the visitor by allowing much of the news and content to be accessible from the homepage. This is done by establishing categories and groups that feed off of the content rich site.

• Use CSS for ease of structural design
• Optimize the use of Site Map to better understand the Groups and Categories
• Visually engage the visitor with photographs that tell a story in themselves
• Allow for Content Management by client