Framework
The website is built with Adobe Golive, which precedes Dreamweaver, and places its core at around 2008 at the latest. With a decade in between then and now, you can be sure the website has been left behind.
Mobile-Friendly
According to Google, the Ambassadors of Reconciliation website is NOT mobile-friendly, which negatively impacts searches and makes it difficult to use for those with handheld devices. Here are the three issues found:
- Clickable elements too close together
- Viewport not set
- Text too small to read
Other Issues
- The articles are PDFs, not part of the website as searchable content. This means that searches do not see the articles in the same way, if at all.
- The SSL certificate at the bottom of the page dates the website to when this was something people wanted to know on websites.
- Email addresses are published, making Spam an issue.
- The training calendar is updated, but it links to another website. There should be articles describing the training on the main site, and then link out to another site in order to take applications. Or do both, but the other website is likely getting more of the traffic.
- The bookstore is done in asp.net. This may complicate rebuilding the main website on another server.
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