Redeveloping the Vermont Folklife Center’s Website

Abstract

The Vermont Folklife Center website had been little changed since 2002. By 2016 it became clear that we could no longer put off an overhaul of our primary online presence, which had become aged in both design and technology, and sprawling and Byzantine in its architecture. Inspired by VFC Director of Education Kathleen Haughey’s work in fall 2015 to redevelop the website of our school-based education program, Discovering Community (www.discoveringcommunity.org), VFC staff begin to investigate in earnest our options for reinventing our online portal. Staff consensus was that while much of the content of the old site still held value, the aesthetics and information architecture reflected poorly on VFC