The Victorian Women's Trust is an independent non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting the status of women.

It is a wonderful team of people - passionate about their work, fully on top of issues affecting women and yet lots of fun to work with.

The project came about through Consonant offering to do some work on the website for the Purple Sage Project - one of the initiatives that the VWT is responsible for.

The VWT were feeling frustrated at knowing the potential of the Internet but not knowing what they needed to do to derive the full potential from their site. Consonant has responded with re-engineering the VWT website to align the site's content, functionality and layout with the organisation's business objectives.

This involves explaining some Internet concepts along the way, and providing additional functionality, tools and training that will fully support the VWT's activities and empower them to keep their own site updated in the future.

Tasks include:
- assisting the VWT to determine their business objectives,
- identifying functionality and content to support these business objectives,
- reviewing the existing site and team skills,
- analysing any gap between what's currently there and what's required
- preparing a plan for how to get to where they want to be,
- reviewing all hard copy material to identify additional content, with recommendations on where it should reside within the site,
- re-building the site so that it doesn't use frames,
- sourcing the tools required for VWT to maintain their own site,
- training staff in these products and the principles of website creation and maintenance, and
- helping the VWT to develop a site maintenance strategy, addressing issues such as relative responsibilities, the frequency of updating, archiving, what can be automated, managing email, etc.