About The Client
The UK Marine Industries Alliance is bringing together all aspects of this diverse sector with the goal of working together to secure the maximum opportunity for the industry to flourish. The Alliance is a free to join strategic collaboration of UK Marine companies and related stakeholders. The Marine Industries Leadership Council set it up on behalf of the industries and all UK companies, trade associations and public sector agencies operating in the marine sector are offered free membership of the UK Marine Industries Alliance and use of its brand identity. The Leadership Council includes trade associations, regional groupings, Government Departments, devolved administrations and other public bodies.
The Requirement
UKMIA had a functional website which was not responsive or adaptive to access from mobile devices. Managing the website content was also very difficult and needed the help from the technical team. The business requirement was therefore to develop a website with fresh design, having features to update the content quickly which would then be accessible on all platforms.
Our Solution Approach
We reviewed, analysed and discussed the requirements with UKMIA. We initially created various responsive design options to represent the data in different ways. UKMIA team reviewed and finalised the design option which was implemented on the final website. Important capabilities of the new website are the ease to manage the content by UKMIA team themselves, accessibility on all devices, along with the new attractive design.
The Technologies
In order to fulfill the architectural requirement our challenge was to select a ready-to-use platform that offers both effective Content Management features and flexibility to build additional features to fulfill the business requirements. Careful analysis of various available platforms lead us to select an Open Source technology, Drupal as it fulfilled all the key architectural considerations.
The Result
The new website design came up with an attractive fresh look to the user interface and imparted information clearly. The new website also provides a simple Content Management System (CMS) which allows UKMIA team to manage the website content effectively themselves. This not only cut down their operational costs and saved time but also enhanced overall efficiency.