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The Digital team in the Communications group are improving and updating EMBL’s web presence<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In order to best serve its scientists, students and the wider life-sciences community, it is a strategic and reputational priority for EMBL to optimise its performance on the web. The Digital team is responsible for delivering modern, well-designed, high-performing websites to facilitate EMBL’s work and showcase it to the wider world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Example projects<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Modernising embl.org <\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Starting in 2018, the Content, Digital and Design (now Creative) teams in EMBL\u2019s Communications group have been collaborating closely with the IT team in Heidelberg and the Web Development team at EBI to prepare the way for a new website \u2013 embl.org<\/a> \u2013 for the whole organisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A screenshot of the embl.org homepage taken on 13 October 2021.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

One driver of this project is to update from a dated content-management system called Fiona, to the more modern WordPress platform, with a devolved publishing model. Devolved publishing allows EMBL content owners more control over their content, and a the ability to react and publish content quicker. <\/p>\n\n\n\n