2025 (ongoing)
Sports · City & Community
Arlington Sports Commission
Overview
The Arlington Sports Commission promotes Arlington as a world-class sports destination. We partnered with Rally Dept, who led design, content, and project management, to build a modern, CMS-driven site that puts live, city-sourced sports event data at the center of the experience.
The Challenge
Deliver a polished, accessible sports destination where a small commission team can own editorial content through Prismic, while a live feed from the arlington.org API keeps event listings current without manual curation. Rally Dept directed the visual and content strategy; our role was implementation, CMS architecture, and the API integration that ties live city data into the experience.
Services
- Web Development
- Prismic CMS Architecture
- arlington.org API Integration
- Handlebars Templating
- Design Implementation
- Rally Dept Design Partnership
- Ongoing Support
- Rally Dept
- Design, content, and project management by Rally Dept.
- Live Events
- arlington.org API for real-time city sports data.
- Prismic
- Editorial CMS for the commission team.
- Ongoing
- Continuous support and feature development.
Rally Dept Design Partnership
Design, content, and project management by Rally Dept.
Rally Dept led every aspect of the client relationship: visual design, content strategy, and day-to-day project coordination. Our role was to bring those decisions into a working, scalable product, translate design intent into accessible Handlebars templates, model the content in Prismic, and wire in the live event data. A clean division of responsibilities that let each party focus on what it does best.
Prismic CMS
Full editorial control for the commission team.
All featured content, news, pages, and commission updates are modeled in Prismic. Slice-based composition lets the ASC team assemble and publish new content without engineering involvement. The schema is disciplined enough to keep the site consistent at scale while staying flexible enough to serve a commission whose calendar and programming evolve throughout the year.
Live Event Integration
Real-time city sports data from the arlington.org API.
A live feed from the arlington.org API surfaces city-wide sports events directly on the site, keeping event listings current without any manual curation from the commission team. The integration bridges the public city data layer with the editorial CMS layer, so hand-curated featured content and automatically updated event data coexist cleanly on every page.
Handlebars Templating + Sass
Server-rendered, accessible, performant templates.
The front end is built on Handlebars templating with Sass for structured, maintainable styles. Server-rendered HTML keeps initial page load fast and accessible to all users, including screen readers and search engines, while the component-based template structure makes ongoing design changes predictable and isolated.
webpack Build Pipeline
Modern asset bundling for a content-heavy site.
JavaScript and Sass are bundled through webpack, providing code splitting, cache-busting asset hashes, and a clean development workflow. The build pipeline is structured to stay maintainable over time as the site's content and feature set continue to grow.
Built With
A CMS-first stack paired with live city API data and a server-rendered Handlebars front end, designed for editorial flexibility and long-term maintainability.
- Prismic CMS
- NodeJS
- Handlebars.js
- Sass
- JavaScript
- webpack
- arlington.org API
Custom Platform
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Corporate Web
Passman & Jones
Silky smooth UI animations, horizontal scrolling, dynamic history timeline, and custom employee search.