IES Launches Major Website Redesign
May 2, 2016

IES Launches Major Website Redesign

The Institution of Education Sciences (IES) has launched the first phase of a major website redesign project, featuring a contemporary, mobile-friendly design.

The first phase of the redesign updates the five top-level pages of the IES website—the home page (pictured) and the landing pages for the four IES centers: the National Center for Education Research (NCER), the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance (NCEE); and the National Center for Special Education Research (NCSER). Additional pages will be moved into the new design in the coming weeks and months.

To develop the new design, IES gathered feedback from website users, studied data and analytics, and looked at current trends in web design. The new site features larger images, brighter colors, and effective use of spacing that makes the pages easier to view. A drop-down navigation menu puts nearly all of IES' most-visited pages, tools, and resources just a click away. And the site is built to be responsive, meaning it will automatically adjust to whatever device is being used to access it. Currently, 15–20 percent of visitors to the IES website are using a mobile device and that number is expected to grow in the coming years.

The website is an important part of IES' effort to improve its communications, outreach, and dissemination strategies. In 2015, the IES website received more than 150 million page views. For more information on the new website and current and future IES communications efforts, read a blog post from Ruth Curran Neild, IES' delegated director.

Media Contact: Dana Tofig, Communications Director, Institute of Education Sciences, 202-245-8235, dana.tofig@ed.gov