The mission of safefood is to protect and improve public health by fostering and maintaining confidence in the food supply on the island of Ireland.
Why did Safefood Online choose Arekibo?
Arekibo worked closely with the safefood team to design and develop a site that would enable the organisation to deliver information to a wide-ranging audience - this includes consumers, retailers, scientists and educators and more.
After a detailed "Think" phase, which included workshops and planning sessions on the site structure and functionality requirements, the project then moved into the "Design and Build" phase where the site look and feel was developed and the content management application customised to suit safefood. Arekibo are continuously enhancing the site and the Irish site has since been added.
End Results
The safefood site was awarded a Merit Award in the Public Sector Times e-Government awards.
"This is a good website. It starts with an attractive home page that sports a great colour scheme which is common to all pages within the website. Structured layout is also another common feature through use of borders. But attractive as the home page is, there are a lot of options and text extending the page beyond the fold of the screen. Clever options such as participating in a poll or selecting information specific to the visitor (parent, teenager etc.) entice visitors further into the website. The search facility is quick and accurate."
Reviewed for the Public Sector Times by Dan Remenyi, School of Systems and Data Studies, Trinity College Dublin.
"I cannot recommend Arekibo highly enough. From the first day I met our account team I found them helpful, professional and committed to ensuring that our web presence delivered on all objectives. From strategy through to design and development their knowledge and experience of this medium and our particular approach to it, was pivotal in producing a robust information resource, promoting food safety in Ireland and building the safefood not only on the Island of Ireland but also abroad. This crew produce world class design and this separates them from the rest"
Barney Whelan, Communications and Marketing Director