Mechelen Feest

Whether you want to unwind in nature, dance into the early hours, or simply enjoy a balmy summer evening, “De Zomer is van Mechelen” looks forward to welcoming you and sharing the sunny days and enchanting evenings together.

Branding & Design

Branding and web design for this project came from our partners in crime at Kantoor KOLOS in Mechelen. They’re a creative branding studio that handles both the offline and online branding. Once the design is ready and approved, it ships to us for development.

Development

The website for De Zomer Is Van Mechelen runs on WordPress to stay as flexible as possible. The client can edit everything on both sites, and each one automatically picks up the right theme colors based on which site is being edited.

Continuous Deployment – CI/CD

There’s a summer site and a winter site. The two are exact copies of each other, so it matters that we don’t have to make every update twice. An improvement on one site needs to land on the other as well.

We use Bitbucket Pipelines for our CI/CD setup, with four branches: a live and dev branch for the summer site, and a live and dev branch for the winter site. When we make an update in the development branch, we can deploy it across all the other branches. From there, the environment file on each site loads the correct theme colors and template parts.

The Mechelen Summer and Winter sites share a range of color themes. The underlying theme is identical across both, which means we can make a change on one site and deploy it to both automatically. The branch we push to, winter or summer, determines which color scheme applies.

Mechelen Summer

Mechelen Summer runs on a warm summer contrast, with light red and orange tones. The scheme only shifts to green when you open one specific event, their own, which needed to stand out from the rest of the site. The green marks a brief detour in the visual journey, a nod to Parkpop’s distinct character, but every path leads back to Mechelen Summer’s signature look.

Mechelen Winter

Mechelen Winter takes a cozier, colder palette, enough to pull you into the season and get you ready for the long nights. Though the City of Mechelen will keep you plenty warm.

High Contrast – WCAG

For accessibility across the extended color themes, we also built in a high-contrast mode, so the site stays easy to use for everyone.