Children in Limbo Task Force
From brief to launch.
The end-to-end process behind Children in Limbo Task Force — strategy, design, clean WordPress development, performance, and a smooth handover.
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The brief
The Children in Limbo Task Force is a child-welfare advocacy group documenting why children get stuck without permanency, and the homepage opens by answering its own hardest question — "What is Limbo?" — over an image of a child's shadow against a brick wall. The site's job is credibility and access: three decades of clinical work, readable by caseworkers and adoptive families.
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Strategy & Wireframing
I ordered the home page like a briefing: the Important Notice document first, the "What is Limbo?" definition second, then the "Sounding the Alarm" article, then the group's three publications — Healing Hands, Children At The Centre and The Heart that Silence Built — each with its cover and origin story. About, Background, Task Force Members and Resources carry the institutional depth.
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Design & Branding
A vivid sky-blue backdrop frames a single white content column, with traditional serif headings that suit a body of professionals publishing serious work. The color in the page comes from the book covers themselves — the teal Healing Hands toolkit with its red NEW ribbon, the illustrated heart of Children At The Centre.
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Development & Integration
The centerpiece is an embedded PDF viewer for "The Children in Limbo Task Force 1993 until 2026" notice, paired with a Download button for offline reading. Each publication block links out for ordering copies, and share buttons let members circulate articles to their networks.
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Responsive & Speed
Social workers read this on the go, so on mobile the heavy PDF viewer gives way to a plain document link and Download button — nobody should wrestle a letter-size page on a phone. The long-form sections keep short line lengths and roomy spacing for sustained reading.
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Launch & Delivery
Delivered live with the notice archive, blog, member roster and resources library, giving a volunteer task force a publishing platform its members maintain themselves. New articles and publications slot into the established homepage order.
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