BALI’s new website is live and open for business!
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The British Association of Landscape Industries (BALI), the UK’s premier trade body for the landscape industry, has announced that its new website at www.bali.org.uk is now live and open for business. Following an 18 month specification, design and testing period, the new website, which incorporates a complex membership management database, is now the hub of BALI’s operations.
The new site, which is deliberately image-led to promote the work of BALI members in the public, commercial and private/domestic markets, makes finding a landscaper, designer, grounds maintenance contractor or product/service supplier much easier for the public and for commercial clients searching the site. Amongst the site’s features are the facility for clients to upload tenders to solicit quotations from BALI Registered members, and comprehensive BALI member portfolios to help clients choose a designer or contractor whose work they like.
The project was managed by BALI’s Angela Donovan, with input and support at the specification stage from Chief Executive Wayne Grills and BALI board members Chris Carr of Q Lawns and Richard Stone of Bawden Contracting Services. The testing phase was protracted and complex and involved almost the entire BALI team at Landscape House, with BALI members then being invited to add editorial, images, awards, testimonials and team profiles to their own pages on the website. A snagging period then commenced, using valuable member feedback and incorporating many of their observations and suggestions to ensure the site operated as efficiently and effectively as possible.
Commenting on the new site, BALI National Chairman Bob Field said:
“This has been an enormous undertaking for BALI, both financially and in terms of the staff resource required. The integration of the membership database with the website software to incorporate the many facets of BALI’s membership operation, including membership enquiries, invoicing and payments, vetting and standards, event registration, and a host of functions required by modern membership bodies, has been a monumental challenge.”
He continued: “On my own behalf and on behalf of the BALI board and all BALI members, I must offer my sincere thanks to BALI’s project manager Angela Donovan, and to the BALI team, for their commitment to completing this challenging task. We can now move forward knowing that we have a robust and appropriate website and CRM system fit for the 21st century.”
As the new BALI website beds in, any developmental work required will fall into phase two of the project.