Work / Taste and Telemetry
The Century Club
The website for The Century Club, a Skyline & Co. wedding and events venue on the fifth floor of The Mark in downtown Kansas City.
- Role
- Built the site solo
- Company
- Taste and Telemetry
- Timeline
- Oct 2026
- Stage
- Live
- Platforms
- Web
- Team
- Solo
The problem
A historic ballroom needed a site that feels like walking into the room, that the venue can edit itself, and that shows which pages actually lead to inquiries.
Key decisions
- 01
Every word on the site is editable in an embedded Payload CMS, set up from the site’s message file. If the database is ever unavailable, the site serves the committed copy, so it never goes blank.
- 02
Clicks on any call to action or link to the Visit page are recorded as lead events, so the venue can see which pages and buttons bring in inquiries.
- 03
Scroll and heading animations run on GSAP with Lenis smooth scrolling, tuned to stay quiet for people who prefer reduced motion.
Outcome
Built solo in October 2026 for Skyline & Co., the team behind Longview Estate.
What it does
- Home, The Spaces, Weddings, Private Events and History pages
- Visit page with an inquiry path for tours and events
- Archive photographs telling the building’s history
- Copy editable in Payload CMS, with a fallback to committed copy
- Lead-event tracking on every call to action
- SEO with structured data, a sitemap and llms.txt
Built with
- Next.js
- React
- TypeScript
- Tailwind CSS
- Payload CMS
- GSAP
- PostgreSQL