August 4th, 2025

The new features 

Quick links

The quick links on the home page have been moved to near the top. We heard you loved these links but not so much the scrolling, now we’ve made them a bit more attractive and pulled them up to be one of the first things you see on the home page.

Mega menu

We replaced the old drop-down navigation menu with a full bar style menu that expands from the navigation bar. This gives you an enhanced view of the different sections of the website.

Section cards 

Section cards are now fully-clickable. For those of you not familiar with website lingo, a card is rectangular container that holds related information. Firstport uses cards to link to other pages on the website, as well as external websites. Previously, only parts of the cards were clickable, but now our friends at Somar Digital have made them fully-clickable to avoid confusion.  

Accessible places cards 

The cards for our accessible places now display each venue’s accessibility features. 

Font 

The website text is now in a font called Poppins. Poppins is the font we use in our printed materials and social media content. Its clean shapes and good amount of spacing makes it suitable for readers with visual impairments or cognitive challenges. It also displays consistently across browsers and devices, which is great for our diverse audience.  

Breadcrumbs 

We have improved the breadcrumbs for events, accessible places, information centres, and equipment provider pages. Breadcrumbs are a trail of links that show you where you are within a website’s structure. You will normally find them near the top of a webpage. Previously the breadcrumbs on some pages included some text that wasn’t clickable and referred to pages that didn’t exist, so we have fixed that. This might seem like a little thing, but this change makes it easier for you to navigate the site, understands where you are, and go back to previous sections. 

 

What’s next? 

We hope that these updates make surfing Firstport even better for you.  

We’re always looking for ways to improve the website for our community and we have a whole bunch of little changes on their way again now! So if you have any suggestions, please let us know.  

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