FirstMerit website project

Project Goals

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  • A new look and feel
  • New Content Management System (CMS)
  • Increase findability and positive experience
  • Increase advertisement spaces

Challenges

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  • The volume of content and pages
  • Educating people on best practices
  • Selling the importance of making the copy more web-friendly

Team

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  • Compliance
  • Legal
  • Marketing (project sponsor)
  • Media Services
  • Project Management

Result

The redesign increased traffic, excitement, and customer satisfaction.

Steps

1

Team kickoff meeting

2

Research

  • Site Audit/Content Inventory
  • Analytics review
  • Competitive Analysis
  • Examine Customer feedback
  • Card sorting (part of step 4)
  • Best practices

3

Present recommendations, plan, discuss, and get buy-in

4

Organize content, conduct card sort activity, create the information architecture blueprints, and share them with the team. Shown below is the Personal section blueprint of the website.

Personal section website blueprint

5

Create wireframes/layouts/mockups and share them with the team.

Wireframe of Personal section homepage

Wireframe of level two pages

6

Create style and brand guides.

7

Start building page templates and component libraries in Content Management System(CMS)

8

Create all the pages using the new standards and review them.

9

Launch the site.

website home page with ads and links to areas of the website

10

Collect feedback, monitor analytics, and continuously improve.