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About Cities Alliance
Cities Alliance is a global partnership fighting urban poverty and supporting cities to deliver sustainable development. To manage its activities, the Cities Alliance operates a multi-donor fund with UNOPS as host and Trustee.
The UNOPS retained Vardot’s support and maintenance services in a bid to enhance the quality of performance, functionality, and usability of the Cities Alliance digital platform.
About the project
Objectives:
- Upgrade site functionality to create a dynamic user experience for website visitors
- Update modules and features to provide full flexibility for the website management team
- Sustain website performance regardless of traffic or content load
- Enhance content publishing experience for website content marketing team
- Ensure responsiveness across all browsers and screen size
What We Did:
Enhanced UI/UX Design
Our UI/UX team researched and analyzed the legacy website users' behavior (internal and external users) to create the ideal design system for the new Cities Alliance digital experience.
The new design also features accessibility best practices that ensure that all website visitors can access the website in the intended fashion from any device or browser without any frustrations when it comes to page loading speed.
SEO Friendly Content Structure
The new design is not only presenting a more appealing look and style but it serves the user experience by presenting the content in an ideally structured manner. Core Web Vitals were taken into consideration when designing each webpage to ensure that the purpose from each landing page was delivered to the user.
Superior In-Site Search Functionality
The Cities Alliance website is a content-heavy digital platform with a myriad of content formats, ranging from news articles to publications and rich media formats such as video.
Our team upgraded and improved the in-site search capabilities to ensure that website visitors can navigate the content on the site easier and quicker than ever before.
As aforementioned, the new UI/UX design already factored in the numerous user journeys that revolve around specific content types and the relationship between related content to ensure that website visitors are guided throughout their experience on the new Drupal site.
Why Drupal was chosen
With superior on-site SEO performance and best-in-class security, Varbase empowers organizations to build reliable and future-ready digital platforms. Backed by ongoing upgrades and support from the global open-source community, it offers flexible layout building, streamlined content publishing workflows, and robust scaling and growth capabilities to meet evolving business needs.
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