A campaign website with the whole toolkit built in
A city council campaign needs to collect volunteers, take donations properly and change messaging fast. We gave Paul Van Ryssel's campaign all three.
The client
Paul Van Ryssel is a candidate for Nanaimo City Council. A campaign site is a sprint with a hard deadline: it has to inform, recruit and fundraise from day one, and stay current as the campaign evolves.
What they needed
Five pages of platform and story, forms for every way a supporter can help, donations handled properly under BC campaign finance rules, and the ability for the campaign to edit its own message without waiting on anyone.
What we built
We shipped the full campaign toolkit, not just the pages.
Every door a supporter can knock on
Volunteer, lawn sign, invite Paul to speak, contact and newsletter signup. Every form is protected against bots and delivers straight to the campaign inbox.
Donations on two rails
Supporters can give by card or by Interac e-transfer, and the campaign has a donations board with a reconciliation panel for matching e-transfers as they arrive. The required authorization statement sits exactly where the rules say it should.
A mailing list the campaign owns
Signups flow into a built-in list with a sender for campaign updates. No third-party newsletter subscription, no exported spreadsheets.
Edit the message on the page
The campaign edits its own copy directly on the live site, right down to picking the icons on the priority cards from a searchable picker. When messaging shifts, the site shifts the same hour.
Design notes
Navy, gold and paper, with Paul photographed properly and framed consistently across every hero. Campaign sites drift toward clip art and clutter. This one stays disciplined, because the candidate's brand is steadiness.
The result
4
supporter forms, all bot-protected
2
donation rails: card and Interac e-transfer
~200ms → single digits
server time per page after caching
A campaign that runs its own website: edits its message, grows its list and takes donations cleanly, with the compliance details handled. All we do is watch it deploy itself.
What the client said
I had an excellent experience working with VDTSites on the development of my campaign website. They were responsive, patient, professional, and easy to work with throughout the entire process. What I appreciated most was their ability to listen carefully, understand the tone and purpose I was trying to create, and translate that into a website that feels clear, polished, and true to who I am. They were also quick to make revisions, offered helpful guidance, and made the process feel straightforward from beginning to end. I am very pleased with the final result and would not hesitate to recommend VDTSites to anyone looking for thoughtful, reliable, and high-quality website development.
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