Isle of Anglesey County Council migrating to new Webstructure.NET platform
Abacus has worked with the Isle of Anglesey County Council since 2003, providing the underlying CMS (Webstructure) for a number of websites.
The web team at the council have been following with interest the development of our new product, Webstructure.NET, and has decided to upgrade!
Much of the drive for the new version of Webstructure came from a need to provide a simple way for our clients to customise their websites quickly and efficiently. For example when a county has heavy snow fall and need to update their site with local news and school closures, the new, more flexible system allows them to do this quickly and easily with the ability to embed geo-location maps and local information web services. Of course another decisive factor is the continued support in Webstructure.NET for multi-lingual capabilities.
Webstructure.NET leverages components that have been created for our media sector clients and at the same time maintains the all important compliance with e-government standards which is one of the key attractions of the system for our public sector clients. Lincolnshire County Council recently launched their site on the new platform with great success – the change has been well received by both residents and employees.
As well as the upgrade to Webstructure.NET, Abacus will also be working on a new design for the council focusing on improvements around the information architecture and specifically, site usability, which can be the difference when assessing a successful channel-shifting strategy. This is a really exciting project for both Abacus and Anglesey and we will keep you updated with the progress.
