We’re pleased to announce the complete redesign & redevelopment of www.isma.org.uk on behalf of the International Stress Management Association UK.
This particular website started off as a requirement that their previous website (completely rebuilt in only late 2007) had significantly reduced their search rankings since relaunch, and very very few people actually liked the new design (after the initial gloss of the new launch in 2008).
Upon further investigation, we were amazed to see a new website like this (for a very significant design fee) was predominantly designed in tables (tables are for tabular data, not design), with hidden text in images (thus mainly hidden from search engines, and inaccessible to character screen readers), and essentially lacking in so many areas too numerous to mention.
The previous website didn’t even validate with either the html or css checker (lots of major errors in programming markup)! The redesign took a little over a week of actual programming time for the main system, although, because we’d pulled the text content from the ‘existing’ website, and recoded it into the new accessible format, the clients discovered countless pages of out of date content, they didn’t even know they had!
Also, as the design expanded, their requirements increased as they then wished to combine their other websites, into this one.
So, for a small additional fee, we incorporated their ‘National Stress Awareness Day’ website as part of the new design, also adding the ‘ISMA Conference’ website, and a new secure members area. (as well as an up-to-date web search facility, and new in-house newsletter feature within their server space rather than using an external one)
The site has been built to the latest standards, using good simple html for the main content (and thus keeping it fast to load, accessible to screen readers, and good for search engines), and then using CSS for the design and layout.
As you may see, many of the pages are also optimised for printing automatically (just go to ‘Print Preview’ to see what happens).
We’ve also now incorporated two web logs (blogs) with Google’s Blogger, within the site, for a way to effectively add new press releases, new research, and various updates to ISMA for the public and their members. This is then all automatically archived, and indexed to search engines virtually instantly.
We’ve also incorporated the use of a very easy to use CMS (Content Management System) for every website page, allowing the administrators a very easy way to add/edit/update any of the main website pages, on demand, as required.
Of course, because it’s hosted on our servers, ISMA also have full control of every file within the website, they can add unlimited email accounts, additional ftp access accounts, and a host of other benefits, for free.
If you’d like to check it out, just go to www.isma.org.uk and take your time perusing around the website.
You might also be interested to know, the new combined website came in, at around a third of the previous costs for just two of the four websites built less than 2 years ago!
If you’d like to get in contact about your website redesign, please do get in contact.