Websites

Delivering optimised websites for housing associations and their subsidiaries has been one of Prodo's specialisms for over 20 years. Whether you need a fast-to-launch website replacement or a fully custom solution designed around your needs we've got you covered.

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Tenant Websites

Providing your tenants with clearly defined user journeys to help guide them to information to answer their queries effectively, encouraging channel shift.

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Home Sales & Rental Websites

Enabling the effective promotion of available properties, and driving enquiries for prospective customers.

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Corporate Websites

Giving you the platform you need to portray crucial corporate and company information such as ESG to your peers, partners and potential investors.

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Subsidiary Websites

Creating dedicated digital spaces for you to engage with customers via key social enterprises attached to your main association.

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Tenant Websites

Providing your tenants with clearly defined user journeys to help guide them to information to answer their queries effectively, encouraging channel shift.

Find out more
Digital transformation icon-1
Home Sales & Rental Websites

Enabling the effective promotion of available properties, and driving enquiries for prospective customers.

Find out more
Design icon
Corporate Websites

Giving you the platform you need to portray crucial corporate and company information such as ESG to your peers, partners and potential investors.

Find out more
Onboarding icon-1
Subsidiary Websites

Creating dedicated digital spaces for you to engage with customers via key social enterprises attached to your main association.

Find out more

Website Delivery Process

  • Discovery
  • Design
  • Development
  • Testing
  • Pre-Live
  • Launch

Discovery

The first step in delivering a new website encompasses:

  • We give you a warm Prodo welcome and introduce you to our team of in-house experts

  • We'll host a collaborative requirements exploration process where we'll confirm the project deliverables and tease out potential future enhancements

  • Our team go away to translate the agreed requirements into user stories with success criteria

  • And produce a technical specification document paired with a project management plan for you to review and approve

Design

Next up comes the creation of the look & feel of your new website. Depending upon if you've chosen a custom design or a fast-to-launch website, we'll either begin applying your brand guidelines to an established design of your choosing or follow this process for a bespoke implementation:

  • Assess your key user goals and audience types

  • Consult with you on the sitemap and information architecture

  • Optional wireframing to nail the structure pre-aesthetic-design application

  • Take opportunities with brand exploration 

  • Bring this all together with mobile and desktop custom designs for feedback and amends in a collaborative process with you

Development

By this stage, we'll have the agreed specification and designs in place and proceed with bringing the website to life:

  • Umbraco CMS setup and configuration

  • Backend development to create the modules and required functionality

  • Frontend development to apply the design, look & feel and interactions throughout the website

  • Incorporate any required plugins or system integrations 

Testing

Before we get to a point of sharing the platform with you, we take the solution through a rigorous quality assurance programme to ensure we're delivering against the high standards we set ourselves:

  • Manual user story success criteria testing in the CMS and on the frontend

  • Automated code quality checks with Sonar Cloud

  • Accessibility testing with Pa11y

  • Once we have approved the platform internally, we'll deploy the code to a staging environment ready for client UAT

Pre-Live

This is your chance to check the website provided to you against the prior agreed specification and designs on the staging environment before we plan to launch:

  • CMS training session, building your familiarity and capability within the Umbraco CMS

  • Client User Acceptance Testing (UAT), if you spot any items which require a review, you'll have your own Jira portal to raise tickets for our assessment and remedy

  • Content population is usually a joint effort where we both add your pre-prepared copy and media into the new modules ready for launch

Launch

By this point we're all happy that as a team we've hit the mark when considering the goal and initial requirements of the project!

  • We'll go through some final pre-live checks around SEO and Google Analytics and begin deploying the code to the live server

  • Working with your IT team, we'll provide the relevant information for the DNS change to point your domain name at the server where the new website resides

  • And we're done! A virtual 'cheers' before moving into your warranty phase

Website Delivery Process

Discovery

The first step in delivering a new website encompasses:

  • We give you a warm Prodo welcome and introduce you to our team of in-house experts

  • We'll host a collaborative requirements exploration process where we'll confirm the project deliverables and tease out potential future enhancements

  • Our team go away to translate the agreed requirements into user stories with success criteria

  • And produce a technical specification document paired with a project management plan for you to review and approve

Design

Next up comes the creation of the look & feel of your new website. Depending upon if you've chosen a custom design or a fast-to-launch website, we'll either begin applying your brand guidelines to an established design of your choosing or follow this process for a bespoke implementation:

  • Assess your key user goals and audience types

  • Consult with you on the sitemap and information architecture

  • Optional wireframing to nail the structure pre-aesthetic-design application

  • Take opportunities with brand exploration 

  • Bring this all together with mobile and desktop custom designs for feedback and amends in a collaborative process with you

Development

By this stage, we'll have the agreed specification and designs in place and proceed with bringing the website to life:

  • Umbraco CMS setup and configuration

  • Backend development to create the modules and required functionality

  • Frontend development to apply the design, look & feel and interactions throughout the website

  • Incorporate any required plugins or system integrations 

Testing

Before we get to a point of sharing the platform with you, we take the solution through a rigorous quality assurance programme to ensure we're delivering against the high standards we set ourselves:

  • Manual user story success criteria testing in the CMS and on the frontend

  • Automated code quality checks with Sonar Cloud

  • Accessibility testing with Pa11y

  • Once we have approved the platform internally, we'll deploy the code to a staging environment ready for client UAT

Pre-Live

This is your chance to check the website provided to you against the prior agreed specification and designs on the staging environment before we plan to launch:

  • CMS training session, building your familiarity and capability within the Umbraco CMS

  • Client User Acceptance Testing (UAT), if you spot any items which require a review, you'll have your own Jira portal to raise tickets for our assessment and remedy

  • Content population is usually a joint effort where we both add your pre-prepared copy and media into the new modules ready for launch

Launch

By this point we're all happy that as a team we've hit the mark when considering the goal and initial requirements of the project!

  • We'll go through some final pre-live checks around SEO and Google Analytics and begin deploying the code to the live server

  • Working with your IT team, we'll provide the relevant information for the DNS change to point your domain name at the server where the new website resides

  • And we're done! A virtual 'cheers' before moving into your warranty phase

Is your website letting you down?

If you're not getting the level of engagement on your website that you expect, have accessibility concerns, or are simply looking for help to build your business case - get insight from our expert team into various aspects of your website's performance with our free, no-obligation website audit.

 

We'll assess the platform using a combination of automated and manual tests, followed by explaining our report of findings and recommendations over a video call.

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Rebuild or refresh: What's right for your website?

In this episode of the Housing Hive, we explored the best option for your website - to refresh it or go down the route of a complete rebuild.

There are various factors to think about when deciding which is most appropriate, considering the lifespan of your website platform, security progression and risk, design and branding updates plus much more.

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