AURIS Kranj
A modern website for a regional deaf and hard-of-hearing association in Gorenjska — warm branding, clearly structured services, fast on every device, and built so the team can update content themselves.
Overview
AURIS Kranj — Medobčinsko društvo gluhih in naglušnih za Gorenjsko — is the regional association for deaf and hard-of-hearing members across the Gorenjska region of Slovenia. The organisation operates as a registered disability organisation in the public interest, providing personal assistance, education, community activities, and advocacy for its members.
Numen built and now maintains auris.si — a clean, mobile-friendly site that lets members find services, prospective members understand benefits, and the office team publish announcements without needing a developer for every change.
What we built
Custom WordPress theme. Built on GeneratePress with brand-aligned typography, an orange-accented palette, and a structure that mirrors how the organisation actually operates. Real photography from member activities is used throughout — community photos, not stock imagery — to keep the site visibly grounded in the real work.
Self-serve content. News posts, activity announcements, and section updates can be edited and added by the office team via the WordPress admin. No developer handoff for routine changes.
Member-friendly inquiry flow. A WPForms-based membership and contact form with anti-spam protection and GDPR-compliant data handling. Submissions route directly to the office so requests are seen and answered without unnecessary triage.
EU hosting. cPanel-based hosting in the EU with SSL auto-renewal, transactional email properly configured, and daily encrypted backups retained for 30 days. WordPress core, theme, and plugin updates are tested in staging before reaching production.
Why this matters
AURIS Kranj sits naturally alongside our other accessibility-focused work — SpletnaTV, Museum Guide, LiveSubtitles — all serving the deaf and hard-of-hearing community in Slovenia. The deliverables look different (a website, native apps, a captioning tool), but the principle is the same: when communication barriers are the core challenge of your audience, the digital tools you put in front of them have to clear those barriers, not add to them.
The site is small. The build was straightforward. What this case study demonstrates is the same engineering hygiene we apply to fintech custody platforms applies to a regional NGO website — sensible structure, real backups, accessible markup, and an office team that can keep the content fresh without phoning a developer first.
The best small-organisation sites don't try to look bigger than they are. They look like the people behind them — thoughtful, capable, and ready to help.
Six things shipped,
three hard ones solved.
Key contributions
- Designed and built the AURIS Kranj website on WordPress with a custom GeneratePress-based theme — warm orange palette, real photography from the organisation's activities, clear information architecture across services, membership, and community projects.
- Structured the navigation around what visitors actually look for — concrete benefits (Ugodnosti v praksi), activities at the day centre, how to become a member — rather than around internal organisation hierarchy.
- Set up the contact and membership inquiry flow with anti-spam, GDPR-compliant data handling, and direct routing to the office so applications and enquiries reach the right person without intermediate inbox triage.
- Configured cPanel hosting in the EU with SSL via Let's Encrypt, daily encrypted backups, and a managed update path for the WordPress core, theme, and plugins.
- Trained the office team to edit pages and add news posts independently — so day-to-day content updates don't depend on a developer.
Challenges solved
- Communicating a complex set of services (personal help, community support, day-centre activities, education, advocacy) without making the homepage feel cluttered — solved with two prominent CTAs (membership + about) and overlapping content cards that let users self-select their entry point.
- Designing a site that reads as warm and inviting for community members while still meeting the visual standards of an organisation acting in public interest — restrained, accessible, and modern.
- Working from a brief that was, in the client's own words, 'not yet fully refined' — bringing structure to the requirements through iteration, while staying responsive to feedback at every step.
Client
Pri podjetju Numen so naše pogosto precej nestrokovno podane želje hitro razumeli in jih znali prevesti v spletno stran, ki je bila natanko takšna, kot smo si jo želeli. Skozi celoten proces smo imeli občutek, da nas poslušajo, usmerjajo in iščejo najboljše rešitve za naše potrebe. Sodelovanje z Davorjem je bilo prijetno, odzivno in profesionalno, končni rezultat pa je presegel naša pričakovanja. Z veseljem jih priporočamo!
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