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RIPE NCC Services | RIPE 70 | 13 May 2015
Redesigned RIPE NCC Website
Mihnea-Costin Grigore
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Website Redesign
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A new website!
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Website RedesignMain Focus
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•Navigation!
•Search!
•Design
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Website RedesignSummary
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•History and rationale•Website redesign process•Results and improvements•Future development
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History and Rationale
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Website RedesignHistory and Rationale
• Before 2011: Old website, pure HTML, manual updates• 2011: CMS implemented, all content migrated
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Website RedesignHistory and Rationale
• Collected a lot of feedback:- RIPE NCC Survey 2013- Focus groups with RIPE NCC members- Online usability survey open to all website visitors
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Website RedesignHistory and Rationale
• This is what you asked for:- Improve site navigation, structure and usability- Improve search functionality
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Website Redesign Process
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Website RedesignWebsite Redesign Process
• Information architecture- Fresh, neutral perspective- Deployed web analytics tools (Piwik)- Face-to-face and remote interviews- Workshops- Online surveys- Usability tests
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• A lot of data!
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• New navigation:
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• Search functionality- 10,000 items in CMS, 40,000 emails, 5,000 blog posts!
• Cleaning up content (internal SEO!)• Improving search algorithm• New search interface
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• Bonus round: graphical redesign!
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• 1250px wide, HTML5, CSS3, responsive
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Results and Improvements
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Website RedesignResults and Improvements
• Results: Before (2014) After (2015)
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Website RedesignResults and Improvements
• Results:- Average daily site searches dropped from 1572 to 227 - Template load time dropped from 1760 ms to 518 ms- More than 1500 items archived to clean up navigation and
search results
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Website RedesignResults and Improvements
• Other improvements:- SSO everywhere!- Diff tool highlights changes to RIPE Document versions- ASCII file download automatically generated- HTTPS-only website
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Website RedesignResults and Improvements
• Intangible, but equally valuable:- Enhanced cooperation between internal teams- Tighter visual and functional integration of RIPE NCC
websites and services- Modern, flexible codebase will allow further improvements
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Future Development
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Website RedesignFuture Development
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• Extend RIPE NCC Access integration• Periodic review and fine-tuning based on statistics• Site-wide review to clean up stale content & SEO• Server-side upgrades
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Website RedesignLearn More…
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• Series of RIPE Labs articles:- https://labs.ripe.net/Members/mgrigore
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• Contact us for feedback: [email protected]!
• Talk to us in person!
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Questions? Website Redesign
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