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Institute for Defense and Business

WordPress Development and Web Design for a Nonprofit Educator

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17.21% Increase in Direct Traffic

294% Increase in Facebook Traffic

28.21% Increase in Traffic on Mobile Devices

Institute for Defense and Business

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TheeSummary

The Institute for Defense and Business (IDB) is a nonprofit education and research institute that delivers professional education programs to government agencies, military, non-governmental organizations, and private industries.

Effective professional education does more than teach people new things. IDB’s goal is to foster collaboration among public and private sector organizations and academia to address shared challenges, and to inspire the type of leadership needed to achieve sustainable success.

TheeChallenge

IDB needed a design that reflected their professionalism and vision for the future. They deserved a site that looked amazing on any desktop, tablet, or mobile device. It had to be search engine friendly and easy to navigate, and it a needed a simple content management system that non-programmers could update easily and efficiently. IDB called the responsive web design experts at TheeDigital to turn their vision into a reality.

TheeResults

TheeDigital’s experienced project managers and designers worked collaboratively with IDB to identify their challenges, and developed a custom WordPress website to meet their objectives. Using a variety of advanced custom fields and post types, we created a superior user experience that was as convenient for IDB’s administrators as it was for their website visitors.

Custom Web Design for a Nonprofit Educator

Mobile Friendly Web Design for Nonprofit Educator

Custom Wordpress Features for Nonprofit Educator

SEO and Marketing for Nonprofit Educator

Marketing and PPC for Nonprofit Education Client

Responsive Web Design for Nonprofit Educator

Custom WordPress Website

Thumb-Friendly Mobile Website

With an overwhelming majority of today’s modern world owning portable devices, it’s imperative for any website to be able to display on all devices and browsers. A responsive website alone isn’t good enough, for the best user experience TheeDigital puts a lot of thought and design into making websites that are thumb friendly as well.

What does this mean? In this fast-paced world that we live in so many users are holding their portable devices in one hand and navigating using only a thumb. So this requires a design that contains larger navigation links and buttons that can easily be pressed.

Advanced Custom Fields For Easy Editing

Pages such as the homepage and class description pages feature complex layouts that would be difficult for an average user to reproduce without advanced CSS coding.

Behind the scenes, using advanced custom fields, TheeDigital created a friendly user interface where pictures, backgrounds, text, and headlines can be easily updated by anyone with admin privileges.

The pictures will automatically scale, the text will take on the appropriate styling, and of course, it’s all responsive. Design elements shift and stack like magic, allowing the page to look perfect on any device.

No need to hire a programmer to manage the site!

What Our Happy Clients Say about TheeDigital

We worked with TheeDigital on a corporate website redesign and were impressed by the team’s ability to quickly transform our ideas into a beautiful, functional website. As changes came up throughout the development process, they were flexible and found ways to deliver on those changes without increasing the scope. If you have a solid idea of the website you want, TheeDigital is a great partner to build it.

Claire Puncer
Marketing and Communications Manager
Institute for Defense and Business

Ultra Sleek Mega Menu

To add even more visual flair to the website, we took IDB’s standard navigation menu and took it to the next level. Also known as a mega menu, regular drop down menus are expanded and upgraded with images, drawing attention to IDB’s current program offerings while making a dramatic artistic statement!

Ultra Sleek Mega Menu

Website visitors have a tendency to be in a rush, so anything that can be done to expedite a visitor’s search for information is a plus.

The average time on site may only be a few minutes. If website visitors can’t find what they are looking for in time, they’ll bounce before having the chance to become a lead!

TheeDigital created custom post types for IDB’s program offerings that include custom attributes such as program name, topic, career level, and duration.

These attributes are searchable in the custom search feature. Plus, AJAX filtering does not require the page to reload, so the results are filtered instantaneously.

SSL Secured Payment Page for Nonprofit Client

Authorize.net Payments Page and SSL Certificate

IDB’s site features a secure payment page where customers can conveniently pay their invoices online with a credit card. With the Authorize.net payment gateway, IDB can accept Visa and Mastercard payments and have the funds deposited directly into their bank account. Settled transactions can also be imported directly into Quickbooks.

SSL security isn’t only important on payment pages. The entire site is on HTTPS to give users added protection and peace of mind by ensuring communication between client and server is encrypted and authenticated.

There are other benefits of an SSL secured site. Google has previously announced that SSL security is a positive ranking signal. In addition, Google’s Chrome browser features different visual indicators if a site is secure or not. A green padlock symbol appears in the address bar of a secure site, and on an unsecured site, “not secure” warnings will show on certain form fields.

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