Municipality of Tripoli – Cultural Website & Book Exhibition

The site was the main public face of the municipality’s book exhibition: the programme, the participating authors, schedules and the cultural events around it.Content-heavy is the defining constraint. A lot of editorial material, arriving over time, read by a general public with every level of technical confidence. So the information hierarchy did most of the work. Somebody’s grandmother should be able to find when a particular author is speaking, on a phone, without a tutorial.Public sector also means the traffic is spiky. It is quiet for weeks and then everyone arrives at once when the exhibition opens. WordPress and MySQL, with the architecture sized for the peak rather than the average.This was the first official website I delivered for a government organisation, and it changed how I work. Formality, accessibility and factual accuracy carry more weight when the publisher is a public authority. You cannot ship an approximate opening time.