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The Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport (CHO) is a nonhub, commercial service airport offering daily non-stop and one-stop international and domestic destinations. In service since 1955, the facility has grown to include a 60,000 square foot terminal with modern customer amenities offering on-site rental cars, ground transportation and food service. General aviation includes an executive terminal supplying a full-service fixed base operation, flight school, and aircraft charters. The big question was: why would anyone want to go to this local airport’s website? (more…)

On top of design, clients look to us to help untangle the volumes of information they show on the web. Obviously, one wants a website to be more than a data dump where the user can’t find anything because they are presented with everything at once. The challenge is how to sort out the most important information and organize it in a way to keep it simple. (We have yet to find a client that doesn’t ask for a simple, easy to use interface.)

Most often, client information comes to us arranged in the manner which makes sense from an internal perspective. Maybe the volunteer coordinator has one set of data and the project coordinator has another. Or the software department has their priorities and the the hardware department has theirs. Information is sorted by department, by region, or even by the people who assembled their content. At some point, they talk to each other behind the scenes and make the business work. As you might expect, this default approach may not be the best way to present information to the public. (more…)