User Experience Team: Web Design
Getting started with your new web project
- How to create a new website or redevelop your existing site
- Enhance/improve your web content with the Making good websites guide
- Understand your responsibilities with accessibility legislation and what you have to do make your page accessible
- Use our self-directed online learning guide, on using SiteBuilder that covers both the new components editor and classic visual editor.
- Attend one of the SiteBuilder delivered training courses run throughout term time by the IDG Training Team.
- Start a bespoke project with us. Read our testimonials.
- Email for advice, support and help on all our web applications from a dedicated support team
Ready-made site designs and layouts
1. Choose a site design from our pre-made site design gallery. The site design is the Warwick template that frames the outside of the site and comprises the masthead (and cut-out transparent W at the top) brand colour, borders and footer. The site gallery is regularly updated by the graphic designer,
2. We implement the design for you.
3. For the content you could copy an example Components Editor layout to your page, or create your own layout from scratch.
4. You can then customise the layout further add start to add your own content.
5. That's it! Your site is ready to go.
Cost: free of charge
Custom graphic design
We offer bespoke graphic design for your site.
Professional graphic design created by an experienced designer is something that will add real value to your site and give a sense of connection and cohesive flow throughout the site.
- custom site designs
- carousel/slideshow imagery
- hero/banner/static imagery,
- photo or vector style, montage, single image
- specific imagery for use throughout site
- help with infographics
- assistance with preparing imagery used on site for print or marketing purposes,- eg Warwick Print
Please contact webteam@warwick.ac.uk to discuss your requirements
Custom project and user experience design work
We offer full support for your project needs.
We can assist with creating your new site, creating bespoke layouts and new pages or features. We provide content management services advising on audience, personas, writing for the web, design principles, site structure, navigation, best practice and accessibility etc.
We can review your current website and make recommendations on how to better meet the needs of your intended target audience.
We can offer user journey card sorts and workshops if required.
This and the custom graphic design are usually chargeable services depending on what is required. Please contact webteam@warwick.ac.uk to discuss your requirements.
Testimonials
The team (especially Julie) were very professional and super-helpful. They gave us lots of good advice, helped to fix myriad website problems and issues and were very patient when we were sometimes unsure of what what we wanted / where we wanted to go. Nothing was too much trouble, and their efforts to deliver informative and timely advice, is to be commended. Many thanks!
Jayne Sweet
Centre for the Study of the Renaissance
I want to say a huge thank you to Julie and Chris who have helped create a magnificent new homepage for IRRU. Julie is a joy to work with; she communicates at each stage, is responsive to my feedback and has the patience of a saint! Thank you Julie :-) Also, the components editor training was excellent and gave me the confidence to then build on the new homepage and recreate and upgrade all the existing sub-pages. We now have a website to really show off. Thank you for all of your help, Julie.
Louise Cullen
IRRU, WBS
Being new to the role and having a tight deadline to refresh the webpages, Julie has been a great help. She has provided great support as well as advice and guidance and has always been on the end of an email if I was stuck - thank you so much!
Ria Wilson
Department of Physics
It was a brilliant team to work with. I was especially impressed by the work of Julie and Chris in coming up with a design that would work best for our key concepts.
Ozlem Atikcan
Politics and International Studies
Julie was great on this project, so helpful and the design team did such a great job on the design of the front page. Julie was able to process the project really efficiently and cannot thank Julie enough for all her help.
Lucy Goulding
Vice Chancellor's Office
Julie was great in making suggestions on the project and executing the work - she was also incredibly patient in liaising with all the various stakeholders and addressing their needs - THANK YOU!
Letizia Gramaglia
WIHEA, Academic Development Centre
As always a brilliant service. Julie was very patient with us.
Debbie Castle
University Nursery
The refresh of the website design is just what we needed. It came about through a conversation regarding accessibility (as the old colours we were using weren't accessible), so IT Services suggested that one of their graphic designers could come up with some alternative designs for us that would meet accessibility guidelines. The results were great - we were given a few options to choose from and we went with the one that ties in with our brochure. The turn-around in terms of implementing the design was quick and we were also given the opportunity to flag any issues after the design had been implemented. Thanks again for your help with this :)
Jess Holt
Liberal Arts