Being a newly formed working group, VIWG required a website to act as an initial online presence to begin promoting their collaborative work and attracting interest from other health care professionals and those seeking vestibular rehabilitation services. At this early stage of the VIWG being formed, it was requested that the website be a single page to provide a basic level of information which the group could then expand upon at a later stage.

As budget was an important consideration, AllDesignOnline were asked to quote for two options, a fully bespoke single page website or an pre-made theme that could be adapted to suite the VIWG requirements. Both options have positives, but for a new website where the costs are an important factor such as this one, it was decided to proceed with a pre-made theme and the option of a bespoke design could be revisited at a later point. An additional consideration was that the webpage needed to be live ahead of an upcoming conference which made the production times very short.

After reviewing a number of pre-made themes with the VIWG, the Porto theme was selected as this offered a good level of support as well as some flexibility in it’s design. Having installed the theme on a development server, configuring the theme to meet the requirements of VIWG was a relatively quick process and with an existing logo and colour scheme already established, the design adjustments were also quickly made. Content had also previously been supplied leaving just a selection of images to source and some design features to create.

The first draft of the site was presented to the VIWG who reviewed the content and functionality, providing a set of comments containing minor adjustments required. Once these had been made, the website was signed off and moved to the live domain in good time for the upcoming conference. It is anticipated by the VIWG that in the future, the site content will be expanded and additional pages will be added with an option to create a bespoke designed site that would integrate into the existing website should it be required.