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Miss Fil-Am Florida

A one-night pageant that needed a site doing five jobs at once.

Events & cultureTampa, FloridaDesign + build
Miss Fil-Am Florida

The Project

The Miss Fil-Am Florida Pageant is an annual celebration of Filipino-American heritage in Florida, and it supports Gawad Kalinga, a non-profit working to end poverty in the Philippines.

The 2024 event was one night, 31 August at the Hilton Downtown Tampa, and the site had to sell tickets, introduce the contestants, carry the sponsors and answer every practical question before it, all at once.

01

Objectives

One night to get right, and a single site doing five jobs at the same time.

  • Sell tickets
  • Introduce every contestant
  • Give sponsors their own placement rather than a logo strip
  • Answer the practical questions before the night
  • Let the organisers edit all of it themselves
02

Challenges

A fixed date, a volunteer team, and an event that comes back every year.

  • One night, 31 August 2024. The deadline does not move
  • Five jobs competing for the same page and the same attention
  • Anything hard-coded for 2024 becomes next years problem
03

Solutions

A full event site on Wagtail and Django, designed in Figma and built with Tailwind.

  • Ticketing running through the site itself
  • A profile for each contestant
  • Sponsor placements built into the layout
  • Event details sitting where someone looking for a start time will actually find them
  • Wagtail underneath, so the organisers run it themselves year to year
04

Results

The site carried the 2024 pageant and is still live. It came to us through Anthony at WooMeNow: four years of one partnership turning into the next one, which is the argument for doing the work properly rather than quickly.

WagtailSo the organisers edit it themselves
2024Live for the August pageant
4Jobs on one page: tickets, contestants, sponsors, details
ReferralFrom WooMeNow, a four-year client

The screens

What we designed

Four of the screens from the Miss Fil-Am Florida site: the pages that had to sell tickets, introduce the contestants and carry the sponsors.

Miss Fil-Am Florida home page
Miss Fil-Am Florida contestants page
Miss Fil-Am Florida tickets page
Miss Fil-Am Florida sponsors and event details

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