The main aim was to design and develop a site with a corporate colour scheme and layout that increased coherence between the divisional intranet site, and the county intranet site. It needed to be easy to use and also easy to update, as the people updating the site may not be skilled in web-based development. The updates will be made through Microsoft FrontPage and so the site needed to be maintainable through this. Due to the large amount of content on the site, the structure of it required re-developing and also a lot of new content needed to be added.

The site was redeveloped using templating to ensure future updates to the appearance of the site can be made quickly and easily. CSS was used in order to develop the styles within the site and ASP and PHP were used in order to provide dynamic content. ASP was used on pages which users would need to update, since PHP could not be displayed in an understandable format for users maintaining the site using Microsoft FrontPage. Where possible, index pages were automatically written at runtime to ensure updates to the site are automatically referenced elsewhere within the site. Finally the structure of the site was re-developed to ensure that the site is much more maintainable, expandable and usable.