Victorian Department of Treasury and Finance

DPC’s challenge

DPC needed pilot sites that could be built as part of the SDP project, while also creating reusable elements for the new SDP platform. The DTF website became the second pilot site for the SDP. (The first pilot site was the Governor of Victoria website — see case study.)

DPC’s transformation

The DTF site was a little different to the Governor of Victoria pilot site — instead of Salsa Digital driving the build and technology, this time DPC wanted to drive it internally to incorporate in-house learnings into the broader SDP project going forward.

The site’s foundation was based on many of the components Salsa Digital and DPC had created for the Governor of Victoria website, and then DPC built onto that, creating its own components and Drupal themes to meet the specific DTF requirements. DTF led the design process to create a new look and feel for the site.

Salsa Digital provided frontend and backend resources to supplement DPC’s internal team.

The outcomes

The DTF website was a great opportunity for DPC to drive a website project within the new framework of the SDP, while also delivering benefits to the DTF, including:

• A new, improved site

• An easy-to-use content management system (CMS)

• An up-to-date CMS, which minimises security risks

• A responsive site that can be viewed on desktops, tablets or smartphones

• A better citizen-experience through improved content, visual design and user interface

• An accessible site

• Reduced operational costs because the site is built on the new Bay platform

Benefits to DPC included key learnings from driving the pilot site build themselves, which they can use in the future as more sites come on board the SDP platform.