Famous Folks / Creative Communications

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The Nova Scotia Legislature

This old house.

/ Summary

The previous Legislature site was very dated and confusing. After talking to all stakeholders, we found thousands of documents trapped in a website with poor accessibility and organization. Famous Folks catalogued their vast material (dating back to the 1800s), developed an Information Architecture that made sense and utilized the popular ExpressionEngine CMS to allow for ease of updates and flexibility in the future.

/ Links

/ Design Option 1

Clean, modern design with emphasis on the content.

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/ Design Option 2

Rich, modern design. Large photo backgrounds add energy and depth.

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/ Design Option 3

Rich, classic design. Architectural details reference the House and add importance.

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/ Information Architecture
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/ Actions

From the final design comps, Famous Folks built a static prototype of the site as HTML templates. As always, we adhered to modern web standards and best practices for web development. We created valid and semantic HTML5 templates, offering the advantages of being easy to modify in the future, as well as being accessible for a variety of devices and platforms.

/ Final Website Design
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/ Results

Launched in the fall of 2010, the site is drawing rave reviews from all parties and users – with information much easier to find.