Learning through Landscapes (LTL) is a national charity that works with schools, organisations and individuals across the UK to help them improve and develop their school grounds. The LTL website forms a vital part of the organisations effort to provide information to a wide audience on all issues related to school grounds.

Design Haus helped to formulate a strategy that would recognize the diverse audience the charity has. Through the 'Explore LTL' area of the site LTL are able to target content for specific types of visitors based on what work they do and where they are in the UK.




The Learning through Landscapes (LTL) site had a number of design challenges for the Design Haus team. The most difficult was the extremely diverse audience and the fact that the site was seen as an integral part of providing information and resources to each of these different groups. Design Haus proposed a unique navigation for the 'Explore LTL' area that created a 'matrix' using a map of the UK and a list of audience types. A visitor can retrieve information suited to where they are in the UK as well as targeting their profession.

Other unique features of the site includes a clean, easy-to-follow design that allows LTL to showcase content through pictures and updateable copy. The bright colour and easy to use navigation has prompted a number of positive comments from LTL members.

Some of the Technical challenges and features of the new Learning through Landscapes (LTL) site includes:

Extensive Content Management - The LTL project pushed the boundries of previous CM programming to include the option of placing images into copy with an associated ALT tag, links to uploaded documents (with document control in place for public/private documents) as well as style application, email and web links.

Highlights - To be able to highlight case-studies/partners on various pages thoughout the site based on a random selection from a specific pool. Case studies in particular were to be selected from a pool based on location to show relevant information to the section of the site viewed.

Members area - A collection of information available for members who subscribe to the charity, all updatable by staff at LTL. When members log into the web-site, the system recognises when they previously signed in and informs them of any new members content that has been added.

Document control - LTL Staff can upload documents, categorise them and set them an access level so that the document can be publically available, basic details needed for downloading or for full members only.

Text Only - Every public page has an alternative, text only, page that can be viewed by visitors who might need such a page. As some of the dynamic content can have images placed within their copy the code needed to remove these graphics but to leave the contents of the ALT tag, to describe the image that had been in place

Print Only - Pages with the most useful of information have a print friendly page available with all forms of navigation removed to produce a "clean" document for printing.