Forsyth Taco Week Project

Industry

Food & Restaurant

Location

Forsyth, GA

Forsyth Taco Week is an event started in 2021 by the Forsyth-Monroe County Chamber of Commerce and sponsored in part by Annette Barnett Travel Agency. Taco Week was designed to bring together members of the community around good food and family fun. We worked with the Chamber of Commerce from the beginning to create a collaborative platform for their event.

Challenge

The Forsyth-Monroe County Chamber of Commerce needed the skill and help to make Forsyth Taco Week more than just an idea. The Chamber required a website capable of online voting, hosting photo and video, ecommerce, and displaying live updates. From creating a website to serve as the base of their promotions to implementing online voting for the event, Hickman assisted The Chamber in completing  a solution to accomplish these goals. 

Approach

Our initial plan was to create a website that would be able to serve all of their needs, both now and in the future. This meant a platform that could handle hundreds of visits a day, deliver fast browsing speeds, and have the flexibility to adapt to current trends. Using the logo designs and branding The Chamber already had, we developed a mockup of what their potential site would look like. Once approved, our team went ahead with the development of The Chamber’s complete website.

Solution

Given the event’s need for a multitude of features and functionality, we felt that our native content management system (CMS) platform was the best fit for the project. In addition to being able to support online voting, high resolution images/video, and live updates, the Forsyth Taco Week website boasted a network of Amazon Web Services’ servers to ensure fast loading times and reliable access to the site 24/7. The end result was a platform that allowed participants to play, interact, and vote for their favorite taco this season.