{"id":1043,"date":"2015-10-15T12:00:51","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T11:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/?p=1043"},"modified":"2015-10-14T14:06:15","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T13:06:15","slug":"a-brand-new-mobile-world-case-study-of-central-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/2015\/10\/15\/a-brand-new-mobile-world-case-study-of-central-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"A Brand New Mobile World: Case Study of Central Sites"},"content":{"rendered":"

Phase 1 of Go Mobile is now complete and we thought it timely to do a little show and tell of what we\u2019ve been up to with this Go Mobile malarkey.<\/p>\n

Two of our central sites to get the Go Mobile treatment were Research<\/strong> and About<\/strong>. These are clearly important sites for a research-intensive Russell group university, like Newcastle. These sites should showcase our achievements, but also need to explain some complex strategic content.<\/p>\n

So they need to be able communicate effectively, but now with the added requirement of working just as well for smaller mobile devices<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve posted previously about what Phase 1 of Go Mobile<\/a> entailed and also talked about new ways we have of doing things<\/a>, so here I\u2019ll showcase some new layouts.<\/p>\n

This post will focus on a core page on the Research website and the homepage for the About website. I\u2019m going to include screen shots of the sites before and after Go Mobile, and explain why we\u2019ve done these developments.<\/p>\n

Research website<\/h2>\n

Take a look at the old Research Support<\/strong> section, one of the core pages of the research site:<\/p>\n

\"Screenshot<\/a>The page is quite informative and clearly formatted (short paragraphs and a bulleted list of hyperlinks) but not really engaging. It’s also not visually impressive, with only a small image to the right of the content.<\/p>\n

Now look at the new Research Support<\/strong> section:<\/p>\n

\"Screenshot<\/a>Note the:<\/p>\n