Starting construction without a proper blueprint is never a good idea, whether you are constructing a building or setting up a new website. One of our oldest clients, the province of Antwerp, is making plans for a new website. Perfect timing to do the groundwork for a blueprint: a thorough needs analysis to find out what is expected from this new provincial site.

In June 2012, Kevin Ringoot and Pieter Rahier started work here at Internet Architects. After doing their internships, we recognized their talent and offered them a job as an online project manager and a strategist respectively. Both Kevin and Pieter completed the postgraduate training ‘Manager Interactive Communication’, aka MICA, at Lessius Hogeschool in Mechelen.

Ladies first, so we welcome Wendy Van Hoydonck first. Wendy recently became a valuable part of our office and operations team, ‘aka the backbone of our company’. Kevin and Pieter share this news item with Wendy although they have been at our offices for a few months now. They graduated from the Lessius Hogeschool, did their internship at Internet Architects and soon proved to be very valuable to our team.

As of today, the Antwerp University Hospital (UZA) has a contemporary and fresh new site. Putting patients at the very center of their care is now also reflected in UZA’s online presence. Visitors can find a wealth of practical information in an information architecture that is so transparent anyone will find their way effortlessly on uza.be.

Watching TV on your smart phone or tablet, that is nothing new. But if you don’t like watching TV on your own, there’s no reason you shouldn’t watch. From now on you can watch TV and ventilate your opinion in real time with the new Telenet Yelo 2.1 application for your tablet. Internet Architects knows all about it.

Internet Architects and our Drupal-partner Krimson created a new website for OptimaBank, the market leader in financial and fiscal planning. Optimabank was looking for a strategic online partner who could reconcile their financial long-term planning services with their new offer of banking service.

Internet Architects is a long-time believer in measuring any online presence. The measuring results often prove to be vital for a website’s longevity and conversion rates. Our in-house web analytics expert, Joris Vanwesenbeeck, just obtained his certification in comScore’s Digital Analytix, a powerful and results-focused analytics solution.

Not every website has a long life span. Sometimes you just want to communicate on an event and set up a site in practically no time. That was our mission for the province of Antwerp’s event promotion. Our solution: a customizable framework for event sites that promotes the event itself, any similar events and supports the organization behind the event.

As of this week the Internet Architects’ team is complemented by the creative brain of Carl Dhuyvetters. As trained interior architect and former founding manager of silicoN imagE, Carl decided it was time to return to the trenches. And our trenches can always use a seasoned project manager.

You have a great site. It took a lot of time, effort and money to set it up. It is only natural that you should want to know whether it is perceived and used as you intended it to. That is where web analytics comes in. After all, measuring is knowing.

Today SD Worx launched its brand-new and multifaceted site. SD Worx offers its clients an array of services in HR, payroll, tax, training, consultancy and outsourcing. It goes without saying that it was quite a challenge to clearly position SD Worx’ core services in HR and payroll while also providing intuitive entries for the other services. Good branding and theming were of vital importance.

No, we are not promoting a new soft drink. Yes, we are proud that Niels Matthijs, one of our in-house front-enders, has published another riveting article in Smashing Magazine. Niels revisits the use of CSS sprites and gives tips and tricks that are especially useful when coding a new website from scratch.