Ordinul Arhitecților din România
Client
ENGINEERING
OAR
A content-rich platform for Romania's Order of Architects, running contests, events, and member resources, built with High Contrast.
Construction
Industry
Engineering, Platform
Services
High Contrast
Design
A digital home worthy of the profession.
The Romanian Order of Architects is the professional body for architects in Romania. Its old site was dated and limited, unable to handle the contests, cultural projects, events, and professional resources the organisation runs. We rebuilt it with our design partners at High Contrast: they set the visual direction, we built the platform and the backend. The harder half was not the front end. It was migrating years of content without losing search visibility, and giving the team tools to manage everything themselves.
Standing
A site that reflects the institution
Findability
Contests, events, and resources easy to find
Migration
Move all content without losing rankings
Self-serve
The team publishes without a developer
A content-rich platform, the team runs itself.
The front end, designed by High Contrast, is responsive, with dark mode, adjustable font size, and multilingual support, and search that filters by tag, date, and relevance. The admin side is where the project earns its keep: flexible content templates, drag-and-drop ordering, and automated forms let the team manage a large, varied body of content. Forms feed Google Sheets, deadlines sync to calendars, contest documents render to PDF on demand, and the server is tuned to hold up when a deadline drives a traffic spike.
From briefing to a platform the team runs: plan, build, automate.
01.
Planning and strategy
A briefing and workshops with OAR stakeholders defined the sitemap and prioritised features.
02.
Design and build
High Contrast set the direction; we turned the designs into responsive templates on WordPress with Sage, with contest routing handled multilingually through WPML, post-to-post relationships linking contests, projects, and people, and infinite scroll with multi-criteria filtering over large archives. Payment and invoicing were added for professional-development courses.
03.
Automation
Forms feed Google Sheets with a database sync, email notifications fire for contest registrations and submissions, deadlines update calendars, and contest documents generate and render as PDF in real time, with CAPTCHA and upload limits protecting submissions.
04.
Testing and launch
We tested responsiveness and server performance under load, then deployed with analytics in place and the content migrated without losing search visibility.
Emilia Jercan, CEO at High Contrast
“We like their input on the UX/UI projects. We can't do a great design without their technical mind involved.”
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