Case study

Roscommon Leisure Centre

A fresh, crisp website for Roscommon's swimming pool and gym, with live pool and gym times on the homepage, timetables anyone can read on a phone, and every facility, membership and price one tap away.

  • Website redesign
  • Live pool & gym times
  • Text-based timetables
  • Mobile-first design
  • Site-wide header & footer
  • Ongoing updates
Swimmer doing butterfly in the 25-metre pool at Roscommon Leisure Centre
The client

Swim, train and feel better

Roscommon Leisure Centre in Ardnanagh, Roscommon Town, has served the community since it officially opened in April 2002. It offers a 5-lane, 25-metre heated deck-level pool, a separate learner pool, a poolside sauna and steam room, and a fully equipped gym with a free weights area, all open seven days a week.

The centre runs a busy programme of public swims, school and public lessons, swim clubs, aqua aerobics, baby and toddler sessions and Active Age classes, and is accredited by Ireland Active and REPS Ireland.

7 daysLive opening times shown every day
45Weekly pool sessions, now readable text
1 placeUpdate a timetable once, the homepage follows
The brief

Make the times easy to find

Most visitors come to a leisure centre website with one question: when can I swim or train today? The centre's timetables arrived as images every few weeks, which were hard to read on a phone and invisible to Google, and the site itself was due a refresh.

Today's times, first

Swimmers and gym members needed to see today's sessions and opening hours the moment the homepage loads.

Readable on any phone

Timetables had to be real text, not pictures, so they're clear on a small screen and can be found in search.

Crisp and simple

A clean, modern look that shows off every facility and makes membership, prices and contact details easy to reach.

roscommonleisurecentre.ie
Swimming pool
Today at the pool Wednesday
06.00–09.30Public Swim
10.00–12.30School Lessons
On now13.00–15.30Public Swim
16.00–18.00Public Lessons
18.00–19.00Swim Club 5L
19.00–21.00Public Swim
Gym
Today at the gym
06.00–21.00Open now
What we built

A homepage that answers the question

  • Live "today at the pool" and "today at the gym"

    The homepage shows today's pool sessions and gym hours automatically, every day. Finished sessions fade out, the current one is marked "On now", and the gym shows whether it's open right now.

  • Timetables as clear, colour-coded text

    Public swims, lessons, swim clubs, babies, tots and Active Age, and special sessions each have their own colour, with today's day highlighted. There's room to show the next timetable underneath the current one. See it in action ↗

  • One place to update

    The homepage panels read straight from the timetable pages, so each new timetable only needs to be added once and the whole site follows.

  • Every facility on show

    Photo cards for the swimming pool, swim school, gym and sauna & steam room, a full facilities list, opening hours, and a membership panel that takes visitors straight to prices.

  • Accreditations front and centre

    The Ireland Active and REPS Ireland accreditations sit right in the hero image, so visitors see the centre's standards straight away.

  • A new header and footer, everywhere

    A clean sticky menu with a click-to-call button and a mobile menu, plus a matching footer, now runs across every page of the site.

Facilities

Everything under one roof

From a first swim lesson to a 6am workout, the new website brings every part of the centre together, with membership and prices always one click away.

Facilities featured

  • 5-lane, 25m heated deck-level pool
  • 8-metre shallow learner pool
  • Poolside sauna
  • Poolside steam room
  • Fully equipped gymnasium
  • Free weights area
  • RLC Swim School
  • Aqua fit classes
  • Teen & family gym
  • Personal training
  • Family changing rooms
  • Pool hoist & accessible facilities

Accredited facilities

Roscommon Leisure Centre is accredited by Ireland Active and REPS Ireland, now shown with pride at the top of the homepage.

Open seven days

Opening hours, phone and location are visible the moment the homepage loads.

The centre

Facilities that speak for themselves

Bright photography of the pool, swim school, gym and sauna gives visitors a real feel for the centre before they arrive.

Ongoing support

Kept current, week after week

We turn each new timetable from the centre into the new text format as it arrives, and we're rolling the new design out across the rest of the site, page by page.

Timetable updates

New pool and gym times published as soon as they come in.

Page by page

The remaining pages moving to the new design.

Mobile first

Every change checked on phones as well as desktops.

A long-term partner

One team that knows the centre's website inside out.

Your project

Want visitors to find what they need, fast?

We design websites that put the information people come for front and centre, and keep it up to date for you.

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