Community Corner

The Canadian Institute of International Affairs is approaching their one year anniversary of launching on IGLOO. At this time, the organization took the time to re-evaluate the layout and design of their homepage. Although the CIIA had experimented with colours and graphics over the past year, the layout of the page required visitors to scroll down repeatedly to get all the information being presented and was more difficult to edit. The regular features of the homepage include upcoming events, publications, featured members and major conferences. To fit all this into a page that is easy to navigate was a challenge presented to the facilitators and graphic designers at IGLOO.

The solution was to adopt a homepage design divided into discrete boxes that could be easily edited independently. This brings more information to the top of the page and makes it easier for the facilitator to edit one area at a time. The new face of the CIIA community will be public at the end of July.