The new Wells Reserve web
Ten years after first setting foot onto the worldwide web, Wells Reserve and Laudholm Trust recently strode into a major redesign of our websites. We hope the result has caught your attention.
Over the past few months, we have been working with iMarc, a nearby web strategy and design company, to merge wellsreserve.org and laudholm.org into a unified web presence. This effort is long overdue.
In the past decade, our web offerings have grown dramatically to accommodate the expectations of an increasingly wired world. Our web server delivers tens of megabytes of data every day and often responds to 500,000 page requests a month.
Our online audience is as varied as the programs and activities that fit under the Reserve-and-Trust umbrella. People depend on our websites for planning trail walks, arranging school visits, making scientific connections, obtaining maps, making donations, renting the barn, scheduling a visit, keeping current, and much more.
As you will see, iMarc has crafted a site that combines powerful database features with a creative, user-focused design. With this new site, we will send a clearer message to our diverse audiences, provide an ocean of information gracefully, and inspire our web visitors to support the four pillars of our combined missions.
Please let us know what you think.
Comments
When one updates a website, there are a host of issues to address - some of which are interface design, appearance and most important of all...content.
iMarc, under the guidance of Laudholm editor Scott Richardson, produced the perfect balance of functionality, meaning and style.
Congratulations to the Trust and the Reserve!
Is laundholm farm still holding weddings? If so, I need to know prices and what's included for a July 11 wedding with 150 people. Thank you
I think your new web site is terrible. I don't want to do a blog or hear about your technical web projects. I want to get information about Laudholm farms to tell a friend to visit and give some overview information about the experience of visiting. Just on a Home page web page - not a blog. What you have here does not answer my needs at all. Do a home page with overview information and for those who blog or want to know the details of your web technical exploration offer these as a link (s) from the home page. You have gone overboard for my type of user / potential visitor. Too bad. Now I can't give my friend information that would make her want to visit.
The new website is spectacular. Beautiful, informational, and reflective of the beauty of the Wells Reserve at Laudholm. Congratulations!
Kathy, I'm sorry you didn't find what you were looking for. Could you tell me what kind of experience you'd like your friend to have at Laudholm?
Overview information on visiting is available through a few links on the home page. It sounds like you may have linked directly to this blog entry. www.wellsreserve.org is the best place to start.
Please let me know what kind of front page information would make your friend want to visit our website and, more importantly, the site.
