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Central Niagara

A Community Venue Website That Opens Up the Whole Building

After building Central Community Church's website, we created a separate home for Central Niagara, showcasing rental spaces, floor plans, pricing and community events.

Matt Dragos

Written by

Matt Dragos

Co-owner, Dragos Design Creative

Updated

Based in

Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada

Launched

November 2022

Our role

Website design and development

Project website

centralniagara.org

Central Niagara's website on desktop and mobile: the homepage with the heading A Venue For Our Community over a photo of a banquet set with round tables and floral centrepieces, Rentals and Floor Plan buttons and the main menu, beside the Main Auditorium pricing on a phone with its rates, dimensions of 110.39 by 137.46 feet, 13,800 square feet, a capacity of 1,600 and a Book Now button.
Central Niagara's website showcases the building's spaces, rental information and community activity.

A second project with Central

After we finished Central Community Church’s original website, their team came back with another project. This time, they wanted a dedicated website for Central Niagara, the community venue connected to the church’s building in Niagara-on-the-Lake.

Laptop and phone mockup from our 2023 project images: the Central Niagara homepage with the heading Welcome to Central Community Centre, Niagara's Newest Event Venue over a photo of the auditorium seating, Rentals and Floor Plan buttons and a menu of About Us, Rentals, Tenants, Events, Vendors and Contact Us, with the About Central Niagara page on the phone.
The Central Niagara homepage in our 2023 project images, introducing Central Community Centre as Niagara’s newest event venue.

The building was designed for more than Sunday services. It’s a place for concerts, conferences, dance competitions, sports and other gatherings. A separate website gave people a way to discover the venue and explore what’s available without having to go through the church’s main site.

Giving every room its own space

One of the things I really like about this project is how much you can explore online. The main auditorium alone is listed at 13,800 square feet, with room for up to 1,600 people. The site also takes you through Auditorium B, the grand lobby and smaller meeting rooms. Across the rental pages, visitors can see photos, room dimensions, floor plans and pricing before getting in touch about an event.

The Main Auditorium rental page's photo of the auditorium seating beside its pricing list, with general and non-profit rates, AV tech packages, dimensions of 110.39 by 137.46 feet, 13,800 square feet, a capacity of 1,600 and a Book Now button, above its floor-plan cards for the Main Aud, Lobby and Greenrooms with photo thumbnails, beside the Meeting Rooms page as a tall strip.
Each rental page pairs room photos with pricing, dimensions and floor plans, from the Main Auditorium to the meeting rooms.

There’s also an area for upcoming events and information about long-term tenants, showing how the building serves the community throughout the week. It’s more than a collection of rooms for rent.

The Long Term Tenants menu open with tiles for Central Community Church, Childcare Central, Peak Dance Co., Niagara Rapids Volleyball and NOTL Pickleball Club, above the Upcoming Events area with a Trunk or Treat poster and thumbnails for A Niagara Christmas and the Bravehearts Gala, beside the About page's Photos gallery of meeting rooms, sports courts, galas and concerts with a filter for each space.
The Long Term Tenants menu lists the groups based in the building, beside the Upcoming Events area and the About page’s photo gallery.

This was a fun second project with the Central team and a chance to show a different side of the same community. Take a look at Central Niagara and explore the building for yourself.

Full-page desktop screenshot of the Central Niagara homepage with the A Venue For Our Community header, an About section with a video, a form to schedule a tour or reach the sales and events team, a client testimonial and a photo slider of the Grand Lobby, Main Aud, Aud B and Multi-Purpose Rooms.
The homepage introduces the venue, with a video, a contact form, client testimonials and photos of each space.
Full-page desktop screenshot of the Rentals page with the heading Available Spaces over an aerial photo of the building and cards for the Main Aud, Aud B, Lobby and Meeting Rooms.
The Available Spaces page leads to the Main Auditorium, Auditorium B, the Grand Lobby and the meeting rooms.
Full-page desktop screenshot of the Main Auditorium page with its introduction, a photo of the seating beside its pricing, dimensions, square footage and capacity, and floor-plan cards for the Main Aud, Lobby and Greenrooms with photos.
The Main Auditorium page, with its pricing, dimensions, capacity and floor plans.
Full-page desktop screenshot of the Grand Lobby page with its introduction, a photo of a reception in the lobby beside its pricing, dimensions and square footage, and a floor plan for a cocktail reception with photos.
The Grand Lobby page follows the same layout, with a floor plan for a cocktail reception.
Full-page desktop screenshot of the Meeting Rooms page with its introduction, a photo of a greenroom beside the rates for the Executive Boardroom, meeting rooms, multi-purpose rooms and greenrooms, and floor plans of the floor level and upper level marking each room.
The Meeting Rooms page lists each room’s rate and shows where the rooms are on both levels.
Full-page desktop screenshot of the Event Calendar page with an Upcoming Events slider showing a Trunk or Treat poster and thumbnails for A Niagara Christmas and the Bravehearts Gala.
The Event Calendar page highlights upcoming events in the building.

From the client

I’ve been working with Matt for a couple of years now. He has designed two websites for me. His knowledge and creativity has helped us build websites that are not only aesthetically pleasing to the viewer but extremely efficient for first time people coming to our sites for information. He’s patient when teaching me new skills to maintain our sites and always quick to help when something needs adjusting. I highly recommend Matt for your big or small business needs. centralcc.ca / centralniagara.org

Chantel OrrCommunications Director at Central Community Church

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