TGA’s developers worked on World Athletics’ content platform, the system behind the public website that fans use to follow the sport. Its CMS let World Athletics’ own editorial team create and publish competition news and articles straight onto the site without needing a developer involved for every update, and TGA built out the surrounding pages and modules, including the homepage and the athlete profile features that visitors use to follow players.
The most demanding and recurring piece of work was building dedicated microsites for World Athletics’ major championships, essentially a full mini-site nested inside the main site for the duration of each event, pulling in a live external data feed so results and scores updated for fans close to real time. Each one took a couple of months of preparation beforehand, and the live data integration itself needed careful testing once building started. The team sometimes worked weekends, or night shifts when an event fell in a different time zone, so someone was on hand if anything went wrong. Between championships there was rarely a quiet spell, with new content modules and site redesigns, including changes to the video player and watch page, keeping the team consistently busy.