ACC Liverpool website goes live

Mando Group are proud to have been involved in the development of the website for the Liverpool Arena and Convention Centre.

ACC Liverpool is a landmark regeneration project on the outstanding Mersey River Waterfront sited next to the famous grade one listed Albert Dock.
Designed by the award winning architects Wilkinson Eyre, ACC Liverpool houses the versatile Convention Centre with facilities including a 1,350 seat auditorium, 18 breakout rooms, up to 7000m2 of exhibition space and the Liverpool Echo Arena capable of seating over 10,000 concert goers.

ACC Liverpool were looking for a web-design partner to work with their web-development supplier; Liverpool Direct Limited, to develop a highly engaging website that would be easy to navigate for all their different user groups from concert goers to conference or event organisers.

Mando Group's offering:
Mando Group led the ACCL and LDL team through usability workshops to fully understand the user groups for the website such as concert goers and event organisers. The workshops helped the client to fully understand their user groups and their needs for the web site. From the workshops prototype layouts for all key pages, before delivering graphical concepts for how these pages would work aesthetically. Finally Mando Group produced webpage templates for all the required pages. These were tested to conform to AA accessibility rating and also to work in the most popular web browsers.

Mando Group also created an animated flash walkthrough of the arena and convention centre showing room sizes, specifications and images; a key tool for event organisers.

Martin Chapman Fromm, Head of Design at Mando Group said of the project, ‘Working with such a dynamic venture and enthused clients and developers ensured that at every step of the process, the work was treated as a team effort. We now look forward to the opening in January 2008 and continue working with ACC in the future!’

Head of Marketing at ACC Liverpool Emma Blackman said she was very pleased with the results. She said: ‘The website coincided with the launch of our Box Office and the first tickets going on sale at the Liverpool Echo Arena. The demand for tickets for several events has been very high and we've been delighted with the website's ability to handle this. Mando Group’s emphasis on usability means that we know we have a site that will engage with all of our audience.'

View the website: www.accliverpool.com