Background

The Australian Grand Prix Corporation is synonmous with bringing some of the most exciting and action packed motorsports event to Victoria, namely the Formula One Foster's Australian Grand Prix at Albert Park and the Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix at Phillip Island.

designIT has enjoyed a successful working partnership with the AGPC for over 5 years now to deliver all the excitement, drama, glamour and action of the F1 and MotoGP events in two separate sites to the global and Australian online community.

• 2000-2005 FORMULA ONE Foster's Australian Grand Prix

• 2000-2004 Cinzano Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix

Client Brief

Design a visually striking site that reflects events branding & promotes the events - Develop a site that allows the access of event info, results, news, multimedia, & ticket/merchandise purchases through an intuitive and easy to use interface - develop a site that uses a powerful and flexible CMS - develop a site that is flexible, robust and fast to download.

The Solution

The Award winning www.grandprix.com.au incorporates not only a slick visual presentation for both the F1 & MotoGP sites but also an intuitive interface which navigates and displays information cleanly and easily. The sites use the right balance of some fantastic campaign branding imagery and elements whilst keeping the bandwidth and download times to a minimum.

The sites offer the users many different features and functions with the ability to read all the latest news & results, keep up to date and download event information, purchase tickets & merchandise, subscribe to receive regular mailouts and access to exclusive multimedia content.

Under the hood of these sites is a standards based CSS engine utilising the eZ publish CMS to manage the large amount of content. There is also an online ordering system for the purchase of Corporate Hospitality packages which uses the eZ Publish shop.

designIT are proud in their continuing relationship with the AGPC in delivering the best in Motorsport on the Internet.

Sites

http://www.grandprix.com.au/

2000-2005 FORMULA ONE Foster's Australian Grand Prix

2000-2004 Cinzano Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix