Infoxchange’s new website
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Infoxchange website 1997
The earliest shot of the website I could get is back in 1997.
The logo is a house – with some arrows coming towards and away from it. Later on this will change into a map of Australia, to emphasise Infoxchange was national.
Its a fairly basic site. One paragraph of text says “Employment oppportunities…scroll down”. Why a link wasn’t used is a mystery.
The main links went to databases such as the Vacancy Register, which is still around under the “Service Seeker” umbrella.
Infoxchange website 1999
The 1999 website saw the introduction of “Site of the Week”. The webservices team update this every Friday, usually with newly created sites for clients.
This gives them some publicity, and a link from a higher page ranked site for a while.
Infoxchange website 2000
2000 saw a change to the design of the site. The logo has changed to the map of Australia, as mentioned previously.
Instead of using a search and plain links to navigate, the site colour-coded and prioritised links. The links were grouped into resources (next to the logo), news and content (below the logo), and for our services (The rectangle links further down).
This design step changed the site slightly from one that displayed news and recent events to a more portal based site. A logical progression once a company gets larger.
The award for poorly label link of 2000 goes to “How to Use This Site”, which actually took users to register or modify their account.
Funnily enough, the colourful nature of the website seemed to help when trying to explain to people how to find a certain area over the phone. One would argue though that a good design should mean people won’t ring you up asking where the jobs section is.
This style was to stay until the 2009 redesign, with only minor modifications only the way.
The 2009 Infoxchange Australia website
The community infocast, an email newsletter that has 50,000 subscribers has also had an update. During development of it I had the chance to play with a very cool website – litmusapp.com. It’s an online application that can test your email against a variety of different email clients and send you the results. It was indespensable for getting the kinks out of Outlook 2007 rendering.
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