Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), Canada's leading faculty of teaching and learning, known for its research-intensive focus, tasked OPTASY with developing their new website. The primary objective was to enhance the overall user experience by improving website performance, navigation, and responsiveness.
Describe the project (goals, requirements and outcome)
Goals & Challenges
The project aimed to create a more engaging and accessible online presence for OISE, addressing specific needs for various user groups including students, professors, and administrative staff.
- Improving Load Times: The website needed to manage heavy content loads efficiently to enhance accessibility and user satisfaction.
- User Interface Design: A user-friendly interface was required to support a diverse range of user needs from academic information to leisure activities.
- Navigation Structure: The site’s architecture needed reorganization to allow users to find information quickly and intuitively.
Approach & Solutions
OPTASY employed a comprehensive strategy focused on performance optimization and user experience design to meet OISE's needs.
- High-Performance Drupal Site: Developed a website that handles dense content efficiently, significantly reducing page load times.
- Intuitive Navigation: Revamped the navigation to ensure that information related to graduate programs, news, events, and support services is easily accessible.
- User-Friendly Layout: Designed a layout that is intuitive for all users, enhancing the overall interaction with the website.
- Advanced Content Management Tools: Enabled modules like Paragraphs and Block field to aid content editors in organizing and managing website content effectively.
Results & Key Achievements
- Enhanced User Experience: Users now enjoy a faster, more responsive website, which makes accessing educational resources and information simpler and more enjoyable.
- Improved Website Performance: The new Drupal site supports high traffic volumes and complex content interactions smoothly and reliably.
- Streamlined Content Management: Content editors at OISE can now update and structure content more efficiently, thanks to the intuitive tools implemented.
Why Drupal was chosen
- High Performance: Drupal's robust capabilities are well-suited for handling OISE's content-heavy pages without sacrificing load time.
- Flexibility for Content Management: Enables easy content updates and customization through user-friendly modules.
- Scalability: As OISE grows and evolves, Drupal will accommodate increasing traffic and more complex content needs.
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