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Fresh look for Connexions

Connexions West has been providing teenagers all over the region with sound advice and support for almost two decades. Their website has been at the heart of this provision since 2001, and is currently used by hundreds of young people and adults every day.

With this in mind, we have consulted current Connexions users throughout the design process to get their feedback and views. Two of the ideas that came out of this exercise were:

- the inclusion of social networking bookmarks that allow users to post links from Connexions to their favoured social network, eg: Bebo, Facebook, Myspace.

- the provision of an enhanced online job application section that will allow young people to send their CV direct to employers.

Refreshing the underlying code and adding some additional technical features will ensure that the site meets UK Government guidelines on web site accessibility. This is important for disabled users of the internet but will also help search engines find and favourably rank Connexions in its results pages.

As well as this project, we are also working with Connexions on a new version of i-Point, a website aimed at supporting adults and promoting education. Both websites are set to go live later this summer, in time to support students in the new academic year.

Simon Newing
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Created on Monday June 02 2008 12:00 AM

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