Site Redesign Projects

NYS Governor’s Office of Employee Relations

GOER/LMC Web Services Group• Two full-time employees and one long-term

temporary employee• Maintain all GOER/LMC web sites except

NYS/CSEA Partnership• Most database applications (e.g., tuition

reimbursement, sexual harassment survey, etc.) created and maintained by another group within ITD

Redesigns since November, 2009

• GOER Main Site > 5,000 pages• Employee Relations Toolkit

(Secure Site) > 1,000 pages• StateJobsNY (Web Application)• EAP Coordinator Network Site (CMS,

Secure Site)

Moving Forward

• Currently working on redesigns for:–ArbWeb/DART (Secure Site)–SLMS Project Information Site

(Successor to NYS-Learn)–Work-Life Services

GOER Site Makeover

November – December, 2009

GOER’s Old Site

• Old site home page

GOER’s Old Site

• Old site 2nd-levelpage

GOER’s Old Site

• Old site3rd-levelpage

GOER’s New Site

• New sitehome page

GOER’s New Site

• New site 2nd-levelpage

GOER’s New Site

• New site3rd-levelpage

Features of New GOER Site

• Structure completely revamped,

simplified

• Dynamic site using Cold Fusion

• Incorporates some web applications

• Design by committee

GOER/LMC Site Accessibility Status

• All LMC sites in compliance as of 12/31/10

• GOER contemporary content validated 12/31/10

• GOER historical content needs remediation

• GOER Entire site validation/ remediation on schedule for 6/30/11

Employee Relations Toolkit(Restricted)

May – June, 2010

Employee Relations Toolkit• Old home page

Employee Relations Toolkit• New homepage

StateJobsNY Makeover

April – December, 2010

SJNY Background• 1998 - JobWeb • 2004 - Cosmetic redesign and name change to

StateJobsNY (SJNY) • 2010 - Request from CIO Council Workforce

Development Committee to add internship module• 2011 - New SJNY released Jan. 24, 2011• 2011 – Executive Chamber Internship Program using

SJNY to collect internship candidate information

Old StateJobsNY Site

• Old home page

New StateJobsNY Site• New homePage• New sections

New StateJobsNY Site• New menupage

New StateJobsNY Site

• New jobslist

New StateJobsNY Site• New forms

StateJobsNY Framework

• Old model:Agency HR Office Potential Employees

• New model:Agency HR Office Potential Employees

Program Managers Intern Candidates

StateJobsNY Roles

• Agency HR Professionals• Agency Program Managers• Intern Candidates• State Employee Job Seekers• General Public Job Seekers• SJNY Administrators

ArbWeb/DART(Restricted)

April – June, 2011

ArbWeb/DART• Old homepage

ArbWeb/DART• New homepage

Summary: Lessons Learned• ‘Design by committee’ does have some advan-

tages – but be prepared to defend your must-haves (and be prepared to be overruled)

• Plan ahead to help audience find same info in new wrapper

• Set deadlines & communicate them• Set a freeze date for design; further requests

held for phase 2• Share development links to track progress