05 Feb 2019

A new generation of students

This week we launched the first phase of the brand new University of Salford website.

The website is part of a large digital transformation project currently being undertaken by the University of Salford, with Catch working as their digital partner to help transform their public facing website to meet the needs of a new generation of students.

In this first phase a brand new course finder to improve the user experience for current and prospective students finding out about the University’s offering.

This project presented the ideal opportunity to audit content and improve the user experience across the site. With so many facets of the University managing disparate sections of the site, thousands of unique pages had been created using multiple content management systems and microsites.

The previous site was very organisation-centric so the new site presented the chance to move to a more user-centred experience. In order to gather requirements from both the University’s internal stakeholders and the students’ perspective, a huge amount of user research was undertaken to inform the UX, including interviews and workshops. We also collected feedback from the previous site to highlight areas of improvement, in addition to new feature requests and suggestions.

This MVP site launch is just beginning and we’ll continue to deliver updates throughout 2019 against our roadmap, with exciting new features, always based on our users’ feedback.

Visit https://beta.salford.ac.uk/ to see the work in action.

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Acquia partnership

Acquia.com is the destination for customers looking for digital experience expertise, and Catch being an official Acquia Partner puts us with some of the most capable and talented digital leaders to be found anywhere in the world, as Acquia themselves write on their partnership website.

With our core focus on the end to end customer experience, Drupal is a key platform that enables us to power engaging and personalised customer experiences, and we've worked with Acquia on a wide range of Drupal related projects, including, SES, Institute of Physics, Watford FC, University of Salford, and BBC GoodFood.

"Acquia initially offered managed cloud hosting and fine-tuned services for Drupal, and has now grown to provide a fully loaded digital experience platform with Drupal at its core"

We're all about community empowerment for Developers, and are active in the open-source community ourselves. Engaged and knowledgable developers better the Drupal community, and this enables support for all the organisations that leverage Drupal to power their digital customer experiences.

At the heart of the Drupal community is Acquia, the leading cloud platform SaaS company. Having Dries Buytaert, the co-founder of Acquia and the creator of Drupal, develop this program provides an enormous amount of credibility within the community.

If you're interested in learning more about how we can help you get the most from your Drupal project, or how we can make Drupal work for your organisation, please don't hesitate to get in touch.