We had several goals for the recently launched redesign of GARM Technologies Web site:
- Increase download speed.
- Use of latest XHTML and CSS technologies for better multiplatform compatibility.
- Facilitate navigation of our increasingly large site.
- Provide a unified visual appearance of our highly heterogeneous content.
- Ensure high usability and a quality user experience: we conducted user tests of several advanced Web design concepts but found that users preferred a simpler approach with established interaction principles.
- Replace our 2002 design which had become outdated (it is a testament to its quality that a design launched in November 2002 lasted more than two years: normally it is recommended to redesign a site every year).
Plan for Growth
GARM Technologies's web site went live in November 2002 when there were a small amount of other Internet Services company sites on the Latvian web. Our first site ran on a "liberated" workstation and was pretty small. Now, only two years later, the Web has about 2,500 times as many sites, GARM Technologies's own site has grown to hundreds of pages, and we are on our second major user interface redesign. There is every reason to believe that the Web and our site will both continue to grow as we build the GARM vision of a network economy. Truly, on the Web, the only constant is change, and it is important to design a scalable information architecture that can accommodate such change. A site that works perfectly as long as it stays the same will quickly die.
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