BMC Web Design

BMC has released a new website to showcase accessibility design, content management with WordPress, and findability features that can be duplicated for web development clients.

The new website features a zoom layout which provides for optimal readability of content by allowing the viewable area to expand along with increasing font-sizes. This design technique is useful not only for low-vision users, but for all users who access the site by enhancing the reading experience. Instead of squinting or leaning in closer to the monitor to read a paragraph of text, just click the zoom button and the text will come closer to you. This feature is also useful for those with large screen resolutions or wide-screen monitors.

Zoom layouts, while uncommon, are typically simplistic in design and comprised mostly of text with few graphical elements inside of a single-column layout. BMC’s new flavor of this technique breaks with that tradition by implementing a clean, two-column GUI while minimizing unneccessary markup (XHTML) elements to render it. Though it is experimental and still undergoing QA testing, it has proven to display eloquently in most common browser / platform combinations.

This new website allows BMC to provide potential and existing clients with examples of many useful features that can be used to build or integrate with their websites. Soon to follow, BMC will redesign and release their web hosting site to showcase even more design and accessibility techniques.

The new site still has a long way to go inasmuch as adding content and features, but the release was approved for publishing based on design and adequate content, as well as the potential to attract new clients and organic traffic.