New website design

This page first posted 6 January 2021

The Electoral Calculus website has got a new look for the new year.

The old design had got a little out-of-date, so it was good to improve the design and make things easier for the many site users.

Among the improvements are:

• Cleaner and more readable design across the site
• Easier navigation using the new navigation bar (at top), or menu icon
• New site-wide search facility allowing users to find content more easily
• More information about Electoral Calculus services, as many business customers said they were difficult to find
• New articles index page for all articles and posted blogs with search and filtering to help users find useful content

There is also a new company logo, which we hope will make the company and website more recognisable:

Navigation

Desktop navigation is driven by the navigation bar at the top of the screen (Make sure your browser window is wide enough for this to be displayed.) Hovering over any of the categories will show a dropdown menu giving the main options.

More minor pages can be found from the section home page, or by using the new search feature.

On tablets and mobiles, press the menu icon () at the top-right to see a pop-up menu of sections. Then press the expand icon () to see the sub-section choices:

If you are having any difficulties viewing the site try a 'hard refresh' to clear your existing cache of old CSS and JavaScript files.

Features

All the existing site features are still available as before. Features which have been particularly improved by the new design include:

• The seat explorer feature which is easier to use and shows a wealth of political and demographic information about any UK constituency
• The dynamic map which is now browsable, allowing panning and zooming, and more intuitive switching between equal-population and geographic modes
• Our innovative Three-D politics project plus the tie-in survey to plot my 3D position which has been redesigned
• The home pages for Scotland and Northern Ireland
• Make your own prediction for the next UK election

Electoral Calculus worked with Andy Fuller, a great web designer who runs DesignBull, to make the new design.

If you have any comments about the new design, or have spotted anything which isn't working perfectly, please let us know by email to .