Nevada Digital Newspaper Project

www.nvdnp.wordpress.com

November 2016Marina GeorgievaProject manager

WEBSITE REDESIGN and UPDATE

What’s new? Updated website architecture enhances user

experience Updated content provides valuable information

to users Web-friendly font (sans serif) enhances

readability External links open in new tabs to promote

smooth browsing Graphics visualize and complement content New navigation labels improve user

experience Multiple access points across sections for

convenient browsing Sitemap provides at-a-glance overview of the

website content and serves as a quick access point to all pages

Improved footer with social media links and contact details

Employed technologies and tools for customizing the design and organizing the content

HTML | CSS Photoshop

Axure Wordpress

Old interface pages Still online Not linked to the current interface Grouped together with no hierarchy Their names start with .. [two period

punctuation signs]

New interface pages Written with custom HTML | CSS code Updating them requires intermediate HTML

| CSS skills to read the code and eliminate or add textual and graphic content

Blog page (Project Updates) doesn’t require HTML | CSS skills

The pages use inline CSS because of the Wordpress limitations

All graphic elements are uploaded to the Media Section

Website maintenance and updates

Challenges

Wordpress.com is very rigid hosting with limited capabilities

Design challenges were partially overcome with customized inline HTML | CSS coding

Wordpress.com doesn’t allow installation of plugins and developers work with the built-in ones. This results in: No breadcrumbs for smooth navigation No floating menu to enhance user

experience No drop-down menus within the pages

(except for the primary menu) No page jumps

The Project About the project The project in the news Meet the project staff Project advisory board Project partners

Project updates Digitized newspapers

First cycle (2014-2016) Second cycle (2017-2018) Title changes

Resources Posters Flyers Slides Video Additional resources

Contact us Sitemap

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New website structure 2 of 2 USER INTERFACE

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Thank you!

Marina GeorgievaProject ManagerNevada Digital Newspaper Project

www.nvdnp.wordpress.com