About client

Established in May 2012, the ACUE Federation has 30 members, including important groups in the electricity and natural gas fields, namely CEZ Romania, E.ON Romania, Societatea Energetică Electrica SA, ENEL Romania, ENGIE Romania, GAZ EST, C.N.T.E.E. Transelectrica SA, WIEE, WIROM GAS, with a total number of approximately 27,000 employees and an annual turnover of over 5.5 billion Euros.

Project Objectives

The main goal of the project was to redesign the site, import old content and choose a more secure platform. The client had to optimize visibility on mobile devices, in order to increase the number of people who need to be informed about the Federation. Another objective to be achieved within the project was a new structure of the website.

Web Design & Web Development

What we did to achieve the objectives:

  • New site design using the Federation colors inside the site
  • A new navigation and content structure
  • We made the information more visible to visitors.
site acue drupal 2017

UX Design

We made several variations for the new structure of the site content. In the end, we chose one that made it easy for site visitors to find important news and energy efficiency tips.

UI Design

The new design is now based on the colors of the new Federation logo and can be used as a uniform styleguide that can be used in all marketing media, the new design offering a lot of photos and illustrations.

Why Drupal was chosen

It was decided to switch to the Drupal platform for increased security compared to the old platform. Another point was to customize the administration section to make adding content as easy as possible, especially by implementing CKEditor for text editing. We developed the website in Drupal 7, the stable version at that time, and automatically migrated hundreds of articles from the old WordPress platform. The consumer guide was created using a hierarchical structure through which all pages of the guide are connected through a clearly established hierarchy.

The front-end was built from scratch using SCSS and SingularityGS, everything made as clean and optimized as possible for a superior loading speed.

Design

Promotional materials

Design created for the “Consumer Guide”, a project developed by the ACUE federation in order to increase awareness of end users on ways to reduce energy consumption and inform them about their rights and obligations.

The federation wanted a logo used to celebrate a 10th anniversary, so we designed a design that would target the energy sector and preserve the original style of the logo.

acue logo 10 ani

Print design

Promotional flyers created to raise public awareness about energy consumer rights and energy saving methods.

acue - print design

Conclusions

This energy consumer information platform is live! I invite you to find out what consumer rights you have and how to save energy using the ACUE guides. I invite you to use Drupal for complex projects and I look forward to a free consultation if you need a solution similar to the ACUE platform.