After more than a decade in service, the state police’s heavily trafficked portal showed its age and had become challenging to maintain and secure. AISN developers, using best practices and cost-effective strategies, rebuilt the site with a unique, custom template. This modern design makes the site responsive, fully accessible and easy to load – even for rural visitors. AISN engineers provide the site with high-availability hosting, support, disaster recovery and enhanced security.
The Client
Challenge
VSP’s portal served the public and 3,000+ VSP employees well for over a decade, but the aging website required an affordable redesign. Built with static HTML code and no content management system, the site delivered inconsistent user experiences across browsers, operating systems, devices and broadband environments. Much of its functionality could no longer be supported, which impacted navigation, structure and accessibility. Additionally, noncompliance with Commonwealth of Virginia standards necessitated security and accessibility upgrades.
Solution
After conducting extensive research to determine VSP’s requirements, AISN developers combined a hardened content management system and commercial, off-the-shelf solutions to create a custom WordPress template with custom modules such as secure form submissions and an Amber Alert banner. Top priorities were ensuring mobile friendliness, responsiveness in limited bandwidth environments, analytics integration, compliance with Commonwealth of Virginia accessibility standards, redundant hosting, staff training, disaster recovery and high security.