The Economic and Research Council (ESRC) ‘One Europe or Several?’ Programme consists of 26 research projects, which examine contemporary processes of political, security, economic, social and cultural change across the European continent, as well as issues of convergence and divergence and prospects for integration and fragmentation.

The ESRC Programme needed a website to strengthen links between its research projects and to present its work to the wider world.

Keymedia created a clean and simple site with a design that reflected the nature of the ESRC Programme. Site areas include projects (with links to individual project sites), publications, newsletters, and a graphical events calendar.

The site was built two years ago and we have recently been commissioned by the ESRC Programme Director to upgrade it. Since the original site launch, technology has moved on and the content that the site needs to display has mushroomed.

We are now building a more sophisticated search facility, adding style sheets to all the pages (the original site pre dates style sheets), moving the site to our servers and providing help with ongoing maintenance.

Our experience with the One Europe site illustrates that creating websites is an evolutionary process. The scope of most sites changes over time and they need to be reviewed on a regular basis.

www.one-europe.ac.uk