{"id":8615,"date":"2014-09-26T18:13:04","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T17:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=8615"},"modified":"2014-09-26T18:13:04","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T17:13:04","slug":"ihbc-launches-new-mobile-first-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=8615","title":{"rendered":"IHBC launches new ‘mobile-first’ website"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"IHBC<\/a>The Institute of Historic Building Conservation (IHBC) has just launched its new \u2018mobile first\u2019 website, to ease access to its 30,000 or so web pages, designed especially to work across both mobile and desktop users, and while the look is entirely different the links remain much the same<\/span>.<\/p>\n

IHBC Communications Secretary Charles Strang said: \u2018It is a real pleasure to see all this hard work by our staff and IT consultants coming to fruition in this entirely new-looking website.\u00a0 No doubt it will take a little time for some members to get used to, but we know that this new format will make it much easier to access our familiar web-based resources while on the move \u2013 such as our NewsBlogs; Jobs etc.; Join and Branches.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018And as the panels can be changed, the layout can be used to highlight new resources to users, such as our recent online listing of some of the IHBC\u2019s accredited members.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018But in the end it is the new mobile facility that is central to these changes.\u00a0 That sort of flexibility is increasingly important to the vast majority of our current and coming members, whether young or old\u2019.<\/p>\n

IHBC Director Sean O’Reilly said: \u2018This new site, with its \u2018mobile-first\u2019 design and function, will ensure that our members get the most helpful online service possible.\u00a0 The new-look home page and links offer users a much more flexible route into our online resources, one of our key public services as a charity.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018The new design allows for more efficient information management across our online information resources, such as the NewsBlogs.\u00a0 So it will also save on administration time, and help keep our member fees down.\u00a0 Last but not least, it also eases the routes into our rapidly expanding social media operations, with twitter, Linkedin and even facebook only a \u2018press\u2019 away!\u00a0 Do try it out!\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018No doubt there will need to be some settling-in time though.\u00a0 So if there are any pages you can\u2019t access as easily as you’d wish, just let us know by emailing Joanna at contact@ihbc.org.uk<\/a>\u00a0and we\u2019ll see what we can do.’<\/p>\n

\u2018It\u2019s worth noting too that the menus and lists from our old home page are continued across to the new site, with some of the redundant overlapping ironed out.\u00a0 So there should be a lot of familiar territory once you get to the menu listing at the top of the page.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018However, in cleaning up the display of the home page, we know we have had to lose some information \u2013 such as the lists of bodies of which we are members.\u00a0 Given the benefits of clarity and simplicity in the new design, we think we\u2019ve achieved a good balance between old and new, as you’d expect in any good conservation exercise, which I\u2019m sure many of our members will appreciate\u2019.<\/p>\n

The new site can be reached using our current website address: www.ihbc.org.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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