Ri5 Recruitment Intelligence Services
Ri5, the UK's leading recruitment industry news source, needed to revolutionise their website, allowing the Ri5 team to update the website directly with full control over news stories, the job boards, banners, the media centre and advertising agencies.
Ri5 have complete control over which news articles appear on the homepage and category pages
Design
The new Ri5 website was designed by a 3rd party commissioned for the project. With the chosen design, Ideal Websites was tasked with generating accessible, compliant, flexible templates to integrate with the new content management system.
News
Recruitment industry news is the heart of the Ri5 site. Using the bespoke content management system the Ri5 editors can write up articles from anywhere, at any time. Stories are then categorised and archived automatically, with Ri5 in full control of which stories appear where on the main news pages. RSS feeds are also available for the various news categories.
Banners
Ri5 display banners throughout their website. Their advertisers include The Times, The Guardian, Fish4jobs and Monster. A banner system was developed for the website that allows Ri5 to control which banners appear in different parts of the site and how often they should appear. Most importantly, Ri5 are now able to monitor how many people view and click a banner over a given date range.
The way [Ideal Websites] quickly gained an understanding of the needs of this specialist business-to-business sector was highly impressive, and the new site - launched in early 2008 - represented a major improvement on the look, feel and usability of the previous version. (Feedback from the industry has been universally positive.)
Two further features of their service stand out: the excellence of the content management system, which has not only enhanced the speed and flexibility of the site but also significantly reduced management costs; and the prompt, responsive technical support received before, during and since the relaunch.Peter Griggs, Ri5
Visit the website:
http://www.ri5.co.ukRegistration and membership
In order to access the majority of the content on Ri5 visitors have to register. Snippets of news stories are available to visitors before they register, enticing visitors to sign-up and allowing Google to index the news pages (which are keyword rich).
With visitors logged in, Ri5 are able to monitor site usage in great detail, finding trends based on the type of visitors to their website.
