Maintaining an intranet can be a tricky business, but why not kick off 2010 with some New Year resolutions that will make your intranet fly? Read on for our top 5 tips for the year…

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What’s the best way to design your intranet site? Who should you centre your intranet around: the site owners, or the site users? Take a look at our presentation that highlights the advantages – and disadvantages – of both approaches, and that offers advice on how to build your site to be usable for everyone.

Information architecture is a key phase in all of our projects at Content Formula. Whether website or intranet, we know that if you get the structure, organisation and classification of content right at the start of the project, the end result will be a seamless, usable site.

It always starts with defining both the business and user requirements. It’s important that you define both, because the way the business wants to organise their content is not necessarily going to be how users will search for it. There are numerous ways to gather this information (that’s a whole other blog post!), including interviews, surveys and focus groups. This stage is also often combined with an audit of any current site or content.

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Making sure your designs work no matter which browser is being used is one of the most important things an agency can do. Experience and knowledge go a long way to making this an automatic process, but there is no excuse now for websites that don’t work properly in certain browswers. But what can you do if you don’t want to have dozens of browsers installed, or you have IE8 but want to test in IE6?

The answer is this suite of FREE online tools which make things almost completely hassle free! Enjoy!

http://seleniumhq.org/
http://browsershots.org/
https://browserlab.adobe.com/

More and more companies are choosing to build their website centrally and then roll them out across the world. Localisation projects deliver big benefits including consistency of message, cost and time savings as well as enabling central control of your web presence. However, there are lots of traps that global marketers can fall into. Content Formula has worked on many localisation projects and has learned a lot along the way. This article captures some of our top tips. Read on…