At first glance, visitors to Metro’s website may not notice that some major changes have taken place to improve their user experience. Metro has updated its global navigation and overall site design to present information more clearly, no matter how you access metro.net.
Improved Navigation
Metro’s main website navigation appears atop of each page site. Now a much wider and larger menu will provide a tabbed presentation that enhances legibility with larger font sizes, clearer groupings and more hyperlinks to key customer pages.
- Go – provides information on how to use the Metro system;
- Grow – provides the latest information on projects in the works;
- Know – provides news information such as press releases, videos, the Source and El Pasajero; and
- Metro – provides the current Board of Directors, information for Metro Careers, and agency contact and department information.
Responsive Design
Under the hood, updates to HTML/CSS code resulted in what is referred to as ‘responsive design’. These changes allow page designs to automatically resize to fit whatever device (desktop, smart phone or tablet) you view metro.net on. Historically, sites needed to create a text-only version, a mobile version to address each audience, resulting in multiple copies of the same information. Now, one size fits all.
More improvements to come
In the coming weeks, a website survey will be available on metro.net to gather customer input on current features and function as well as find out about new features you’d like to see onsite.
Categories: Technology
Why under Grow, is there no link or information about the I-5 HOV lane project currently active in the valley?
The I-5 projects can be found on Caltrans’ website since they are the lead on it, although Metro funds the projects. For information re: the I-5 N or I-5 S projects, residents can find current information here: http://www.dot.ca.gov/dist07/travel/projects/projects.php
We provide links to their site, display their Twitter feed and display related stories we’ve written on CalTrans projects @ http://www.metro.net/projects/caltrans-projects/
Nextrip should be near Maps, Timetables and Mobile. People really need the info to catch the bus.
Excellent job to you and your team, Mr. Simpson. It is the “small but big improvements” that often really matter!
Go, Grow, Know….Metro!
Very pithy Mr. Simpson! Thanks for keeping Metro hip.
Is there any timeline for the update to the taptogo.net site?
Metro is currently working on the rebuild for the taptogo.net site. Certain improvements should occur before the end of this year, and a major redesign is set to occur in 2014.