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.
About the project
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.
