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Consultation and Design

We can help you measure and evaluate the effectiveness of your site, tailor it to meet users' needs, and improve your content's findability, ease of use, and accessibility.

Looking to improve your Web presence?

WebLion is ready to assist with...

  • using site analytics for better marketing and Web publishing
  • conducting usability tests to find and fix your site's stumbling blocks
  • adopting recommended practices for site content, usability, and accessibility

Measuring and Improving Your Site's Effectiveness

We can help you in the areas of:

  • Site analytics
  • Best practices
  • Content strategy and process
  • Benchmarking similar sites
  • We will advise on how to get feedback from stakeholders and users throughout the process of site development.

Audience and business process analysis

We can help you use your metrics to better understand your target audiences, their goals, needs, & expectations, how they're using your site, and how to improve their experience.  With user-centered design, we can help you tailor your site to match users' mental models and behaviors, taking into account of cultural and technological trends.

Some of our partners are also using Plone to automate business processes such as reviewing student applications and streamlining accreditation audits.

Findability

Users need to be able to find your content easily.  We can help you structure your content so that your visitors can easily understand and use the navigation structure and categorization.  Done well, this also increases the ability of search engines to understand and rank your content.

Usability

Ease of use is paramount in any system, and we counsel our partners on ensure that visitors can accomplish their goals in as few clicks as possible.

Accessibility

The WebLion content management system is accessible out of the box, and we teach content owners how to ensure that their content is formatted to maintain that accessibility, and meet standards.

This further increases the ability of search engines to understand and rank your content.

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Case Studies

"Cost savings in learning opportunities and professional development alone pays for our partnership."

—Michael Hofherr, Manager of Information Technology, Smeal College of Business. Read this Case Study...

"WebLion is a critical resource for our College. The WebLion staff is an extension of our team."

—Chris More, Associate Director of Web Communications, College of Agricultural Sciences. Read this Case Study...