Design by Morango.co.uk

25 March 2008, London. Morango.co.uk are pleased to announce the launch of UKStaffSearch.com, UK’s newest recruitment portal. We’ve worked with the client since late December 2007 and we’re delighted to see the site go live and immediately get paying subscribers.

UKStaffSearch.com site is a custom build CakePHP eCommerce recruitment portal aiming to radically alter the UK recruitment market by introducing affordable source of high quality CVs to recruitment agencies and in-house recruiters.

We’ve worked closely with Jim Munday, the CEO of UKStaffSearch.com to implement and refine his vision.

Morango.co.uk is an independent web design & build agency. We’re passionate about bespoke, creative web solutions for SMEs backed by our thorough knowledge of the web and technology.

Fine. So you want a website. How do you TELL us what you have in mind. Mockups? Sitemap?

Before you start thinking what it should look like it’s a good idea to ask yourself what should it do? And Why? (more…)

Website Design and Production

1. Requirements Analysis

• Determine the goals for the website from the perspective of the user and the business.
• Define the user needs and target usability requirements.
• Evaluate existing versions of the site and of competitors/inspiration.
• Understand existing constraints

2. Conceptual Design

• Sketch out a site design and architecture at an abstract level.
• Conduct a task analysis to find critical features.

3. Mock-ups / Prototypes

• Create visual representations (mock-ups) or interactive representations (prototypes) of the site.
• Evaluate usability through user tests, and walkthroughs.
• Use the evaluation results to create more mock-ups or improve the prototypes.
• Repeat this step until the design and usability goals are met.

4. Architecture

• Determine the most appropriate technologies to achieve desired UI style and backend functionality
• Evaluate cost and time impact/effect of all such components.

5. Production

• Create the website pages
• Evaluate functionality through testing, quality assurance, usability testing, and field testing.
• Use the evaluation results to improve the product.
• Repeat this process (production iteration) until the business goals are met.

6. Launch and Maintenance

• Launch the website or section.
• Maintain and refine with user feedback.
• Use the feedback to create new requirements, and begin major design improvements.