Re: [IxDA Discuss] Corporate website redesign, where to put intranet access?

2009-01-25 Thread elizabeth
Thanks to everyone for your support, input and suggestions; it's great to have a sounding board (especially as I am currently a one person team on this project!). In answer to your questions: As of last week we have had Google Analytics added to the site, which is already giving us a lot of the

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Corporate website redesign, where to put intranet access?

2009-01-22 Thread ivyclark
In addition to the answers posted so far, I hope this will help... Before I begin, I have to ask: - what is the site objective - who are the target audience - what is the current usage pattern - what was the reason for the redesign - has a benchmark analysis of sorts, or any SWOT analysis been as

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Corporate website redesign, where to put intranet access?

2009-01-21 Thread paul bryan
Hi Elizabeth, Experts, like the people reading ixda discussions are a good source for best practices. However, I think you need to get your users involved in this process, even if you have no budget for it yet. It%u2019s a great way to counter-balance the previous owner%u2019s opinions with the

[IxDA Discuss] Corporate website redesign, where to put intranet access?

2009-01-20 Thread Elizabeth Parham
Hello! we are redesigning a corporate website and a couple of things have come up which I'm not entirely convinced by. --I should mention I'm the only information architect/usability bod on the team (something quite new to this company) and the internal client has a lot of sway having been in

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Corporate website redesign, where to put intranet access?

2009-01-20 Thread Bryan Minihan
Perhaps call the employe login link: Remote Employee Login, as that sounds like what it does. Instead of Corporate Information, perhaps About [companyname] I've seen the graphics section of many corporate web sites called Press Kit, Media Kit, and [companyname] In The News, depending on what's

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Corporate website redesign, where to put intranet access?

2009-01-20 Thread William Brall
Find our who is using the site the most now. Is it people outside the company? Is it people looking for that login link? In either case, the best place is the same place all the online store places put it. I shouldn't have to tell you where that is... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .