EnergyNow

Canada's energy news, built for volume.

For: TeamQ Developers
Role: Managed the expansion at the agency
When: 2021 to 2025
Sector: Media
Stack: WordPress, SCSS, PHP, CSS, JavaScript, GeneratePress, fintech data integrations, SEO

Captured from the live site in October 2026. Clients keep their sites moving after handover, so some details differ from the version I delivered.

The brief

EnergyNow publishes Canadian and international energy news, press releases, events and industry data on energynow.ca and its sister site energynow.com, funded by advertising in the header, the content and the sidebar.

What I did

At TeamQ I managed the expansion of both sites, integrating fintech tools into the WordPress builds on GeneratePress.

Visual concept

Open Sans throughout, bold for headlines and regular for everything else. One humanist sans keeps a page with dozens of stories, ads and data widgets feeling like one publication, and its open shapes stay readable at the small sizes a news layout needs.

Black (#000000) for the navigation bar and footer, white for the reading area, orange (#f9a020) for actions such as More News, and sky blue (#24a2dc) for live data and the active page. Every block opens with a hairline header, so the colour is saved for what you can click.

Palette

Orange#f9a020
Black#000000
Sky blue#24a2dc
White#ffffff
Silver#bdc3c7

Type

Throughout

Open Sans

Humanist sans

The homepage, section by section

A breaking-news ticker under a black navigation bar and a header ad.
Featured news beside press releases, with ad slots in the sidebar.
Canadian News and US & International News in two columns.
A commodities panel with live prices, upcoming events and featured company banners.
Company announcements, showcase features and an industry data chart of active drilling rigs.
The daily email sign-up and a footer of Canadian and US industry associations.