University of South Australia's User Driven Web Redevelopment

Jenny Clift, Corporate Web Editor, Marketing and Development Unit, University of South Australia, Adelaide, 5000. Email: jenny.clift@unisa.edu.au

Keywords

Website redevelopment, web redevelopment, web design, web accessibility, usability testing, topic sorting, cascading stylesheets

Abstract

This paper describes the user-centred and unique features of the redevelopment of the University of South Australia's corporate website. The redevelopment began with usability testing, followed by a novel methodology called topic sorting to develop the optimal information architecture for the site. Designed using cascading stylesheets and server-side includes for presentation and layout, the website is compliant with W3C web accessibility guidelines. Web authoring and web development guides were released with the launch of the website to aid conversions by sub-sites.