We are very excited to announce the NEW Waterdown Village BIA website is LIVE!
Our former site was slow, clunky and being pushed to do things it was never designed to do.
Our new site is fast, better organized and makes it easier than ever for site viewers to connect with YOU, our local businesses.
Huge thanks go to Laundry Design Works, our creative partners in designing and developing the new site.
After several months of strategic brainstorming and migrating information, we're pleased to have landed on a site design that is rich with valuable content and with vastly improved functionality.
We want you - our members - to be first in line to check it out before we go public with a big news splash.
What we need you to do:
See for yourself how easy it is to 'find a business' and learn about local events and BIA activities. Get familiar with new sections to find the local information you need.
You'll notice introductory blurbs to your businesses are brief and concise with clickable buttons to take visitors straight to your online platforms. This will help ensure visitors get to the most current details about your business. We've done lots of testing on the site, but things change quickly and we want to ensure we have correct information listed for all our members.
- Make sure your listed address and phone numbers are accurate
- Verify your business links are going to the proper place
- Make sure we've used your correct logo (please note that logos and images are presented in a circular cropping. If you have updated assets to send to us, the best format is a high resolution jpeg in square format that will fit in the circle).
- Please note intro blurbs are edited to a 30 word count for consistency and uniformity. We cannot accommodate a long description but visitors can get lots more detail when they click directly to your site.
If you see information or images that require tweaking, please email your comments and associated assets to adam@waterdownvillage.ca.
Adam will be working on fixes over the next few weeks.
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We know email blasts sometimes end up in junk mail folders. Or sometimes you open an email and forget to respond but can't find it later. You can now check the Member Communications section to find back and current issues of all Member Communications. If you haven't received an email from us in awhile, I suggest you check here to see if you've missed something.
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You can find links to COVID resources, and BIA meeting materials in the Member Resources section, too.
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Under Community Resources you'll find contact information for municipal, provincial and federal representatives and local services. We've designed BIA Member Resources to be a one-stop 'intranet' for BIA members, so familiarize yourself with the section and build a habit to check here for the latest links and information.
Do you have a special event you'd like us to promote? Share details with adam@waterdownvillage.ca and we'll do our best to get it listed on the calendar.
This is just a bit of what you'll be able to find on the new site. Toward the end of the month we will start promoting the new site to consumers.
