Shawn Murphy, the Liberal representative for Charlottetown in Ottawa, is one of our oldest clients. As Shawn said in a recent press release, “Communicating with my constituents is my number one concern. I want the people of Charlottetown to have the access they need, not just to me, but to the entire federal government.” We've just gone through a process of redesigning his site to bring it up-to-date technically and aesthetically to meet that goal.

One aspect of the redesign was to develop a web standards-compliant layout technically using xHTML and CSS. The newly redesigned layout uses semantic code to make it more accessible to people with visual disabilities. The code will also make it easier to make visual changes to the layout in the future.

We've also reorganized the information on the site so that it's easier for people to access. Particularly since the old site had been around for a few years, it was useful to look back and see how content was organized naturally over time and use that as a guiding principle in the reorganization. All of the previous content was broken into logical groupings so that there is a manageable number of top-level categories while still ensuring as much important information is immediately accessible from every page. The homepage now features recently updated content too, like press releases, so it's easier to keep up-to-date.

The photo gallery on the new site is now built on our photo gallery system and which now enables a lot more flexibility for adding photos to the website.

Visit the site »