Our client organizes the annual Lefkoşa Marathon—a citywide sporting and social responsibility event that brings thousands together to promote health, solidarity, and community impact. As participation grew year over year, the previous website struggled with peak-day traffic, content updates, and sponsor visibility, prompting a full rebuild led by Ai Web Solutions Ltd.

This article outlines how we transformed the marathon’s digital experience from a static site into a modern, scalable event platform. We will cover the project background, key challenges, and solution approach. All design and build work—including the visual identity alignment, the public website, and the admin console—were delivered by the Ai Web Solutions team.

Marathon platforms face intense, short-lived traffic spikes during registration windows, announcement drops, and race day updates. The legacy site lacked robust caching, multilingual content control, and clear pathways for participant flows. Moreover, sponsors and partners needed flexible placement and measurable visibility, while editors required a safe, audit-friendly publishing workflow.

We implemented a modular, API-first architecture with strong caching and CDN delivery to absorb traffic surges without degrading UX. Content is managed through a structured CMS model (events, routes, FAQs, results, media, sponsors), enabling editors to publish instantly with role-based permissions. The front end is fully responsive, accessibility-conscious, and search-optimized to ensure fast, equitable access across devices.

Key milestones included: defining information architecture and content types, building the registration flow integration points, implementing sponsor modules with tiered placements, and delivering an intuitive admin console. We also added scheduled announcements, hero countdowns, and media galleries synchronized with the editorial calendar.

The platform integrates with third-party services via secure webhooks and REST endpoints for registrations, timing/results, and media ingestion where applicable. Incoming payloads are validated, normalized, and stored for analytics. Editors can trigger live updates (e.g., route changes, safety notices) that propagate to the website within seconds, while caching rules prevent unnecessary origin load during peak moments.

Beyond performance and reliability, the system streamlines day-to-day operations. Editors can schedule announcements, manage bilingual content, and spotlight sponsors using predefined layouts. SEO metadata, structured data, and image optimizations are built in, helping the marathon reach new audiences while preserving fast page loads and high Core Web Vitals.

The same architecture extends naturally to other public events and civic programs, including:

The new Lefkoşa Marathon platform delivers a fast, resilient, and editor-friendly experience tailored to the realities of large public events. By combining a clean design system with an API-first core and strong caching, Ai Web Solutions has enabled organizers to inform, inspire, and scale participation—with confidence on race day and beyond.