Fermilab designed a new public website to make it possible for anyone who visits the site in search of information to find it quickly and easily.

Look and feel
Fermilab's new website has a uniform, contemporary look that uses the historically significant "FNAL blue" color developed for Fermilab in the 1970s by the Rustoleum^® paint company. The new home page features images that represent a cross-section of the Fermilab experience from a particle event to architecture to education.

The 2001 redesign carries the new look and feel to the majority of "public" pages as well as to many pages geared toward Fermilab staff and users.

Architecture and Navigation
The World Wide Web allows unprecedented flexibility for content growth and editing in "real time". On the web there is no waiting for printing and mailing. For nearly one decade the Fermilab web site has used this flexibility to communicate new experiments, projects and discoveries.

A primary goal of the 2001 site redesign was to organize all the content generated over the years into a clear, manageable structure. The public site has been organized into ten information "hubs". Each current public page has a spot in one of these hubs and new content pages will join one of these hubs. New hubs can be added-when uniqueness is clear and critical mass of content is achieved. Each hub has a unique page header that may be included on pages within the hub. This header includes navigation buttons to each of the other hubs.

Most users can navigate directly to any tertiary level page (pages linked to directly from the hubs) via rollovers from the home page. This will "save a click" for most users.

Quick links to press resources (Press Pass) as well as Fermilab's main publication (FermiNews) appear as buttons within the news box.

Navigating the site