Tag: Client Feedback

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Digital

Centre for Conspiracy Culture (2007)

centreconspiracy1Following discussions with Alasdair Spark, I took 40 hours to overhaul a site which had remained dormant, but popular, since the late 1990s.

  • For this site I: restructured and found new information for the site;
    • ensured that all links were functional;
    • provided a new design and imagery for the site, based upon pre-existing imagery/fonts to provide consistency;
    • provided search functionality;
    • optimised search meta-tags; and
    • suggested appropriate domain names.
  • I provided a document allowing Alasdair Spark to keep the site updated using Dreamweaver 4.0, alongside a brief training session, including advice on web usability and legal issues relating to web content.

Client Feedback
“Dr Bex Lewis has excellent skills as a web designer. She took a tired and worn out website which I had established years back and she refreshed it, not just in design, but by successfully adding to its content, something which I think comes naturally from her strong academic background and awareness of quality sources of information. I really recommend her to anyone seeking the same.”
Alasdair Spark, 2008
American Studies
University of Winchester

Visit Site: http://www.conspiracy-culture.org.uk

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Academic Digital

Learning at the University of Winchester (2009)

35 hours were offered to overhaul and streamline the learning and teaching section of the University of Winchester portal in January 2009, taking a muddled and visually uninspiring set of pages, and making them usable and functional, within the University portal structure.

I have since been employed for a few hours a month to maintain the site, adding further developments as appropriate, and continuing to improve the general structure in response to feedback. Whilst the main emphasis has so far been on providing solid and usable content, we’re currently working on a strategy to develop sections of the site to take advantage of Web 2.0 technology (within the limitations of the current portal structure), to provide a truly engaging experience.

Client Feedback:
The learning pages on the Portal are looking like a breath of fresh air has been blown into them and the feedback so far has been very positive both in terms of functionality and looks. We (in the Learning and Teaching Development Unit) are very pleased with its new look and intuitive layout.
Yaz El-Hakim, March 2009
Director of Teaching and Learning, University of Winchester

Visit: http://www.winchester.ac.uk/learning

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Digital

Law at the University of Winchester (2007)

  • Following discussions with David Chalk, I produced an online presence for the new law degree at the University of Winchester in under 10 hours, using information prepared for print, re-purposing/structuring for the web, and uploading information using the University’s Content Management System. I suggested appropriate image types, which were then provided by the University marketing team.
  • Further time was then spent investigating other University Law websites to look for other possiblities for web content, some of which was implemented. It was noted that few sites had an interactive element, so further time was spent investigating possible blogs to use, and researching types of questions which could usefully be used upon the website to engage potential students in legal debate, thus building a relationship with the University.
  • The remaining time in the 40 hours allocated was spent providing a comprehensive document and training session for David Chalk to enable him to keep the website updated, and particularly advice on what would usefully work for ‘Blawg’, and the extensive amount of offline work which would need to be done to encourage participation. It was noted that it would be best that blog content was best provided by David, as Head of Law.

Client Feedback:
What impressed me most about Bex’s work was her ability to take a brief from a total web site novice and make sense of it and produce in a rapid time a site that more than met my expectations. Very well laid out with imiginative links from what have been an unpromising brief!”
David Chalk, 2009
Head of Law, University of Winchester

Visit: http://www.winchester.ac.uk/law

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Digital

Web Usability (2001-2002)

webusability1-300x199These pages are the result of a 5 month project investigating what makes a web page usable, and thus effective.

  • Members of staff in all departments of the University of Winchester (formerly King Alfred’s College/University College Winchester) were questioned as to the use that they would possibly make of webpage design (within teaching, research, and assessment).
  • Usability and information structure were deemed more important than aesthetics, although this was still a consideration.
  • Designed primarily for use by students, the site offers options for web design, rather than hard and fast rules, the site was also designed to meet the needs of academic staff who were seeking to teach theories of web design.
  • The site was designed to be largely static, as it is more issue-led, rather than a ‘how-to’ of the latest web building software. Although the site is now rather out of date, a lot of the issues to be thought-through remain relevant.

Client Comment

“Dr Bex Lewis was the designer and implementer of a pioneering website at the university which aimed to support lecturers in teaching about web design. This was at a time when web sites were put together hurriedly with many basic mistakes. That website is still available and and stands up remarkbly well, giving sound advice. Would that more web designers would take the time to look at it”

David Rush, 2009

Business IT

University of Winchester

Visit: http://www.winchester.ac.uk/designproject/