Improved AUPE Website will be launched Friday
EDMONTON – On Friday of this week, users of AUPE’s Website — www.aupe.org — will see a new look and have access to improved features.
“We’re looking forward to a dramatic change in the look of our union’s Website and we expect that members will like the changes we are introducing,” said AUPE President Dan MacLennan.
“Our goal was to completely redesign the Website to make it easier for members to use, but to keep the things members like about the site,” he explained.
The original version of the AUPE Website was launched in 1997 and has grown in size and purpose since then. The new version of the Website will continue to be found at the same address.
Among the changes that will make the site easier to use will be:
- Reorganization of information to make sections of interest to members easier to find.
- Refinements to the Website’s search capability.
- Organization of information into areas of interest to members of each of AUPE’s four sectors — Government Services, Health Care, Education, and Boards, Agencies and Local Governments.
- The ability for readers to increase or decrease the size of type on the Website for ease of reading.
- A new administrative tool that will help AUPE Communications staff respond more quickly and efficiently to the information needs of union members.
AUPE’s Website currently receives well over 500 individual visits to the site every day, with some days approaching 1,000 visits, said AUPE Communications Director David Climenhaga.
With the change Friday, the content of the site will remain virtually the same, but the organization of the site’s information should make it easier for users to get to the information they require quickly.
Due to the technical requirements of moving information from the old site to the new one, he noted, some archival material from the period between Jan. 21, 2005 and the April 1 launch date will be unavailable for a few days.
“We anticipate that we will be able to get the site up to date very quickly and we would ask users to bear with us as we work through this period of transition,” he said.