The website redesign for Loma Linda University Health’s approximately 50 URLs — known internally as “Look 17” — will bring increased user-friendliness and easier, faster creation of new pages.
The rollout for Look 17 has just begun for academic sites (see schedule), to be followed in the fall by work on the healthcare sites. The target completion date for all sites is year’s end, according to Ralph Ambrose, director of web services.
To make this happen, the Web Center added more staff, and the team has doubled its productivity, Ambrose said.
Content editors/contributors throughout the organization can help ensure a smooth upgrade experience by 1) updating content as much as possible prior to the conversion (these how-to videos offer instruction), and 2) maintaining contact with their assigned business analyst in the Web Center. Those not sure who their business analyst is can contact Vivian Chavez, senior business analyst.
Each school or healthcare entity’s redesign will take an estimated 2-3 weeks.
Look 17 builds on the Web Center’s strategy over the last several years. This approach has included training the entire enterprise to use a single content management system, Drupal; pushing out an interim redesign to make all webpages responsive (i.e. mobile friendly); and improving search functionality on the healthcare sites.
Look 17 will be the culmination of these efforts, but also a beginning.
“This brings the Web Center to a higher plateau,” Ambrose said. “Look 17 introduces new efficiencies so we can build innovative features and functionality.”