FindYouthInfo.Gov Gets an Updated Look
eCoreXperience, Inc. announces the release of the redesigned FindYouthInfo website. This federal interagency sponsored website focuses on youth programs.
For this project we created a new visual design for the site including a homepage "carousel" that allows FindYouth to feature key programs in a visually engaging manner. This visual update resulted in a look that reflects both the program's mission and the site user constituency. In addition, we developed accessible code designed to meet strict Section 508 compliance standards. Visit this great site at www.findyouthinfo.gov.
eCoreXperience at ASAE Tech Expo 2010
Once again, eCoreXperience will be participating in the ASAE Tech Expo in Washington, DC from February 10-12. In addition to having a booth at the show (number 507), Paula Majerowicz, eCoreXperience Founder and President, will be presenting in conjunction with Fara Francis of the Associated General Contractors Association. This interactive session, Suriving the Content Turf Wars: Redesigning Website to a User Focus, will focus on:
- Tools and methods for gaining consensus among competing content owners
- Understanding the differences between structuring a website from an organization vs. a user perspective
- Identifying the steps needed to analyze existing structure and moving to a user focus from both a navigation and visual design perspective
If you are at the conference, please join Paula and Fara on Thursday, February 11 at 4:15 PM in room 147AB.
Upcoming Webinar: How Can You Measure Your Website's Success?
eCoreXperience will be presenting a Webinar for Sobel & Company's Nonprofit and Social Services Group on October 14th. This Webinar will focus on how to build an effective, intuitive and engaging website, understanding not just when users leave your site...but why. A meaningful analysis of your site enables you to:
- Decrease lost sales opportunities
- Retain existing customers/members and engage new ones
- Provide a competitive advantage
- Optimize your existing technology investments
American Institutes for Research Launches New Site
The American Institutes for Research (AIR), a non-profit, non-partisan organization with headquarter offices in Washington, DC, is one of the world's largest behavioral and social science research organizations. AIR looked to eCoreXperience to develop a companion site for the Center for Response to Intervention (RTI) to provide educators, legislators, parents of students and interested members of the public with the ability to look up state-based initiatives regarding RTI.
Developed using the OpenSource Joomla 1.5 tool, eCoreXperience created the online RTI State Database resource to provide users with the ability to search for and access state-developed resources including briefs, fact sheets, and presentations. A user interface was developed that reflected the brand of the parent organization while still maintaining a unique personality. An easy-to-use backend administrative functionality was also developed to allow AIR staff-members to make updates to the site in a timely, efficient manner. Finally, stringent 508 compliant code was incorporated in order to meet the standards requested by AIR. The resulting site has a fresh look and feel that is related to the RTI site but with its own, engaging character, tailored to the audience the site serves and its search-based functionality.
eCoreXperience Sponsors Capital Cabal Event
eCoreXperience sponsored and exhibited at the Washington, DC area's The Capital Cabal 2nd Tuesday held in March at GuaRapo in Arlington, VA. The Capital Cabal is an organization chartered to produce professional seminars and organize business and social networking events. Capital Cabal brings together metropolitan Washington professionals to educate, interact, make connections, have fun and do business. The focus is typically, but not always, on Internet communications technology, how it is being used, and its effect on business, government and society at large.
eCoreXperience Thinks Green
eCoreXperience has demonstrated our leadership and commitment to improving the quality of life of its employees while reducing traffic congestion, promoting energy conservation and reducing related air pollution in our communities. Out of the millions of employers in the United States, we are in the top 1 percent known as the Best Workplaces for Commuters by the National Center for Transit Research at the University of South Florida for meeting the Environmental Protection Agency's National Standard of Excellence for outstanding commuter benefits.
eCoreXperience at ASAE Tech Expo
The Association Technology Conference & Expo 2009 is the premier and only technology conference for the association community. With our history of successfully delivering technical solutions to our association and member-based organization clients, eCoreXperience brought to the conference our user-focused approach to addressing both organization and membership needs.
Trinity Church of Fishkill Site Launches
Founded in 1756, the historic Trinity Episcopal Church of Fishkill, New York hired eCoreXperience to both redesign its website and to implement an easy-to-use Content Management System. From the beginning, it was clear that the key focus for the redesigned site should not be on the beautiful and historic building but on the people who make up the parish. It is the people that provide the soul and purpose of the church.
From both a visual and structural perspective, the redesigned site reflects that need (the focus on people), through imagery, intuitive navigation and an emphasis on the activities that define the Church and its parishioners. Trinity is also able to easily maintain the site via the cost effective Content Management System implemented, ExpressionEngine. Be sure to visit the site at: www.trinityfishkill.org.
Paula Majerowicz, eCoreXperience President, Serves as ThinkQuest Judge
For the fourth year in a row, Paula Majerowicz, eCoreXperience President, was asked to provide her expertise in judging and evaluating student submissions for the 2008 ThinkQuest Challenge - New York City. The mission for this challenge is as follows:
The ThinkQuest NYC Challenge is a contest for students to create educational websites. The TQNYC project-based, collaborative learning experience addresses 21st century learning by providing an opportunity for students to develop higher order thinking skills, problem solving in a real world context, and student as knowledge producer. In addition to developing advanced technology skills, ThinkQuest NYC participants gain content knowledge in specific academic areas, interpersonal and teamwork skills, and a sense of connection with the world beyond their own communities. ThinkQuest NYC
As a judge/evaluator in this Challenge, Ms. Majerowicz had to call upon not only her experience in website design but also her education/training background in order to carefully examine 15 diverse sites developed by teams of NYC students in grades ranging from 6th to 12th grade. "It was wonderful to see how creative the teams were—both in the content they developed and in the way that content was delivered. Based on the sites I evaluated, the next generation of web designers and developers will only take our industry further"
To learn more about ThinkQuest New York City, go to: www.tqnyc.org.
