Coming soon...Our new website

In October 2014 we started a project to create a new website for Belfast Met that would provide potential customers, current learners and our stakeholders with prompt, accurate and engaging public information. Our ambition is to create a web platform that is future proof, efficient, user friendly, navigable, compatible with databases / social media and multimedia content, has content management facilities and can provide a platform which facilitate ecommerce.

A highly experienced, innovative digital marketing agency called Being Online was appointed in October 2014 and was tasked to design, develop and host the new website.

To date, considerable research has been carried with a range of internal and external stakeholders which has informed the design process. The design stage of the website is now complete; we are now moving into the content development phase of the project and have set a target date to ‘go live’ in early summer.

The new website will offer:

• Greatly improved navigation;
• Information targeted to the needs of key customer groups;
• A Content Management System allowing key staff to upload content;
• A more secure, ‘always on’ website;
• Online payments;
• Full integration with all social media feeds;
• Compliance with data protection and disability requirements;
• Integration with new multimedia technologies and applications;
• Full accessibility from mobile devices; and,
• The capability to assess and monitor website traffic.

A project board was set up to oversee the project which benefits from membership from Corporate Communications & Marketing, IT, Learner Services, Business Development and Curriculum.