NICHCY 
National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities

New Internet Presence
Funded by the U.S. Department of Education, NICHCY serves as the central source of information, programs and services for infants, children and youth with disabilities; IDEA, the nation's special education law; and No Child Left Behind, the nation's general education law.

In order to make their organization stand out as a centralized resource for information on children with disabilities, NICHCY partnered with e.magination to enhance their Internet presence.

Challenge

• Improve user experience and communication to a diverse audience
  
• Deliver information in a seamless and intuitive manner

Established more than a decade ago, NICHCY’s current Web site needed a significant upgrade of both technology and usability. NICHCY needed a new site that could intuitively collect, organize, and disseminate information to a large, diverse audience in both English and Spanish. With this in mind, the new site also needed the ability to deliver information in a seamless and intuitive manner.

Solution

• Analyze the users and information to create a content architecture focused on a diverse audience
  
• Usability analysis to ensure users could find the information quickly
  
• Create a design that reflects their new, enhanced position

Implementing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS), e.magination worked with NICHCY to reposition how they collect and disseminate information.  Re-designing the Web site around the new strategy, the new platform would enable NICHCY to better manage and present their content using one easy tool while providing a breadth of capabilities, allowing them to expand to more sites and functionality in the future.

Results

• Great new look with exciting functionality
  
• Intuitive dissemination of information to a diverse audience
  
• Centralized resource for a specialized audience

Thanks to a great new look and exciting functionality, visitors to the NICHCY site are now able to easily navigate to their group and find relevant content. With the launch of the new Web site, NICHCY has reached and even exceeded their goal as a centralized resource for a diverse, specialized audience.