Case study · Inglewood
TET Stadium & Events Centre
The hometown venue. An operational site, where the job is usually a document rather than a design.
The situation
TET's site earns its keep every week. Somebody is looking up whether the Lounge fits a hundred and fifty people, or downloading the advertising panel prices, or trying to work out which room they hired last time. The content changes when the venue's paperwork changes, which is often.
Most of that paperwork arrives as a Canva or Acrobat export straight from the client, which means it is beautiful and enormous. A nine megabyte PDF on a rural connection is not a document, it's a decision to give up.
What I did
- Built a new "Our Spaces" section on the venue hire page as a structural copy of the floor plans section already sitting above it, so it matched the pattern on the page instead of introducing a new one.
- Compressed the combined venue hire document from 9.09 MB to 2.39 MB. Same four pages, same 264 words of extracted text, photos brought down to 200 dpi and the type left as vector.
- Replaced the advertising panel document with the 2026 pricing and terms version, down from 18.40 MB to 0.54 MB. The source had photographs in it at up to 6,411 dpi, which is a long way past anything a screen or a printer will ever use.
- Verified both files on the live URLs, checking they returned a 200 and the right content type rather than assuming the upload worked.
- Backed out of an edit without saving when WordPress reported that Hayley was in the same page, and came back later.
- Checked the new section rendered, the button opened in a new tab, and the preview image scaled.
The detail worth telling
The advertising panel document took three attempts to compress. The first pass, with the usual tool, came out at the right size and looked fine, but it had silently thrown away the fillable form fields and the words "FREE OF CHARGE". The second degraded the Stadium Trust's logo. The third kept both.
The only reason the first one was caught is that I count the extracted words before and after and compare them, every time, instead of eyeballing page one and calling it done. A booking form that has quietly stopped being fillable is the sort of fault that surfaces three months later as "the website's broken", by which time nobody remembers what changed.
What they got
Two documents that open on a phone at the side of a field, in a section that looks like the rest of the page, with the fillable form intact. Billed at one and a bit hours, with the ten minutes of my own rework itemised separately and offered back.
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Most of what I do is small jobs done properly and on time. I'm in Inglewood, same as the stadium.