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A fresher, more well equipped website

PROJECT: Website Redesign
CLIENT: The Forum, NUSPORT

The Forum Nusport offers state of the art facilities and programs to Newcastle University students, staff and the broader Newcastle community.

Engineroom was awarded their website redesign project earlier this year and couldn’t wait to get our teeth stuck into creating a fresh and exciting, highly functional new website for them to coincide with the re-opening of their newly refurbished swimming pool.

BEFORE

The existing websites design was outdated with poor functionality and user experience. Pages such as the Home page were content heavy, but limited in providing clear communication and information for members.

As an active and dynamic part of the community, the Forum website needed to match its elevated brand position in both design and function, as well as provide flexibility for staff to regularly update website content in order to communicate relevant messages to their members.

The website redesign included the implementation of third party timetable software and a custom built lap lane schedule for their pool.

We worked with the team to ensure both the front and back end design was both contemporary and functional for website visitors and The Forum staff who will be updating the schedules regularly.

An important part of The Forum’s website redesign was the development of a simple and user friendly navigational structure.

The existing site was full of valuable content but the menu system made it difficult for users to easily find what they were looking for. Engineroom developed a comprehensive visual navigation design which simplified the site structure and displayed the full websites content offering when expanded to allow users to access content pages with ease. Quick links were added to a secondary sub-menu on each page to offer extra functionality to access high traffic pages and accordions were used on content heavy pages to make information more digestible.