Optimisation
Website expert review or "health check"?
Identifying obvious issues with the current site design and structure means that we can solve obvious usability problems. An expert review can also reveal content improvement opportunities to help people find and understand the purpose of the site.
Web analytics, site traffic analysis and reporting
It is useful for you to understand what people are looking for and where they go, on your web site. Web analytics provides useful intelligence to help you focus on key content and your user's content-seeking patters- particularly important when campaign effectiveness reporting is required.
Quality assurance
Websites developed by the web design team must undergo Quality Assurance testing across all active web browsers and operate in a usable manner on prominent operating systems and desktop screen resolutions.
University websites must comply with the following technical and design requirements:
- W3C - accessibility and useability - Priority 1, 2 and 3.
- Branding style guide - fonts, images, colours, spacing.
- Navigation is to be kept simple, to provide a reasonable "information scent" to give confidence in direction for users.
- Loading time of site must be kept to a minimum and work acceptably on dial-up modem speeds.
- Optimised for 1024x768 screen resolution.
- No frames or flash-only content (except for videos from third-party).
- Designed to work with appropriate content platform - such as the Content Management System (CMS).