What are the benefits of the Web IA and Web CMS?
• Improved navigation • Information that is easy to find, accessible, relevant, accurate, timely and complete • Improved search results from both EPA’s search engine and external search engines • Content that is topic-based • Reduced Web maintenance costs • Improved link management and great reduction in the number of broken links • A more efficient suite of internal Web content publishing methods • Improved consistency in the appearance of the pages • Improved ease of use for our diverse audiences Q: Did we waste time and money to move to the template 3.2.1? A: No. Moving to the new template helps. • ROT (Redundant, Outdated, Trivial) Clean Up. Every time we have to touch every page in the web site, a lot of content is deleted from the EPA site. Since that’s the first step in preparing to move to the WebCMS, it’s was valuable effort. • Code Clean Up. Many people cleaned their code as they moved to the new template. That’s another step in preparing a move to the WebCMS. • We use code f
• Improved navigation • Information that is easy to find, accessible, relevant, accurate, timely and complete • Improved search results from both EPA’s search engine and external search engines • Content that is topic-based • Reduced Web maintenance costs • Improved link management and great reduction in the number of broken links • A more efficient suite of internal Web content publishing methods • Improved consistency in the appearance of the pages • Improved ease of use for our diverse audiences
