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2nd Sep
Posted by
Andy Faulkner

The Essential Guide to Usability in Web Design: Part 2

For newcomers to the blog, back in Part 1 I introduced the series and defined usability. In this post, I shall be offering some of the examples of how we improved usability within the admin panel of our content management system, River CMS.

But where do you start?

With our usability enhancement program for River CMS, the cycle is on-going with enhancements happening regularly. There is no start or end to improving the system. But obviously the ideas for the improvements have to come from somewhere. The River CMS usability improvements come from various sources, as shown below:

4th Jul
Posted by
Andy Faulkner

Upcoming updates in RiverCMS – a sneak preview

For those anticipating our next update (What rivers begin with C now?), you deserve a little taster of what is to come when the CMS update drops.

Firstly, a little explanation to those without RiverCMS

River CMS is our enterprise strength web content management system and we use the system for 95% of all our website build projects. Read more →

24th May
Posted by
Edward Smith

New to RiverCMS – Portlets

Following extensive development we at Senior are proud to announce the addition of a new Drag and Drop Interface to RiverCMS, we call it Portlets.

What are Portlets?

Portlets are a way of offering bespoke and customisable content to your website users.

With Portlets, you provide your users with various content options and they can then choose what to show as well as the order they want to show it.

On top of this each block of content, known specifically as a portlet, has individual settings to dynamically alter the appearance and the content that is being displayed. Read more →

1st Mar
Posted by
Andy Faulkner

The Essential Guide to Usability in Web Design: Part 1

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Introduction

Over the coming months I aim to jot down my thinking on various aspects of usability in web design. While this may not be the most structured series I’ve ever written, I hope the ideas portrayed throughout the series will help others out there. Discussion, debate and questions are most welcome.

The opinions are my own and come from the 7 years of web design, SEO and accessibility experience I’ve had. Most of the subjects I’ll be bringing up come about from my recent (and ongoing) user experience work on River CMS, what I hope is now a very usable CMS. Some thoughts are core to my way of thinking when building websites. Read more →

24th Feb
Posted by
Andy Faulkner

River CMS Speed Project

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In conjunction with the ongoing user experience improvements of River CMS, Senior is also dedicated to increasing the speed that pages load both on the websites powered by River CMS and their admin panels.

Why?

Beyond the obvious reasons that website visitors will have an improved experience, there are other less evident reasons behind increasing page load speed.

3rd Nov
Posted by
Andy Faulkner

Coming Soon: RiverCMS to get over 100 Usability Improvements!

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We know RiverCMS is easy to use, as proven by the hundreds of pages that our clients have created using it. But we’re excited to announce that RiverCMS is getting a substantial usability overhaul in the coming months.

The Senior studio team are working hard to identify areas to improve the content management system for website administrators. Read more →

21st May
Posted by
Kevin Rowbotham

Corporate Web Design

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At Senior we specialise in delivering corporate web design solutions, catering for clients across B2B, B2C and non-profit business sectors. Our high impact corporate web design techniques are coupled with targeted SEO performance to entice high numbers of relevant visitors to the website. The River CMS is applied to each corporate web design build, acting as a powerful engine behind the solution centred around outstanding usability. Below is a selection of superb examples strait from our portfolio. Read more →

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