Announcing our new, fully redesigned website
Today we’re very proud to announce the launch of the fully redesigned BankTrack website. The new site gives a fresh presentation to our profiles of over a hundred banks and the Dodgy Deals they are financing, as well as news, blogs and campaign resources. The new design is focused on making the site easier to use, sleeker and faster to navigate.
The redesign follows BankTrack’s reorganization at the start of 2015, from a network of civil society groups to an independent campaigning organization in its own right.
As before, the core of the website is its database of over 170 “Dodgy Deal” profiles and some 150 bank profiles, with each deal linked to the profiles of the banks financing it. These fully redesigned profiles include deals and companies that are the subject of active NGO campaigns, including the Dakota Access Pipeline in the United States, the proposed Rampal coal plant in Bangladesh and Australia’s offshore detention centres, as well as deals going back to BankTrack’s beginnings over 12 years ago, kept on the bank’s record for posterity. The website also acts as a platform for other campaigners, featuring news and reports from civil society organisations targeting banks.
Some of the main changes we have made with the new website are:
- More informative profile front pages. The previous tab structure for profiles has been redesigned, so our new profiles have all the most important information on the front page.
- New world map of all dodgy deals. The world map page allows filtering for projects and companies, and filtering by bank and sector.
- Clear overview of which banks are financing which dodgy deals. The finance section has been redesigned to quickly show which banks are linked to which dodgy deals, with the possibility to expand and collapse details about each bank’s involvement.
- One search bar for news, profiles and everything else. Rather than four separate search bars for banks, companies, campaigns and deals, the new website has one straight-forward search bar to help you find anything on the site.
Image: Navigating to and around a Dodgy Deal profile on the new webiste
We will continue to add new features in the coming weeks to make the site even more user friendly and provide more detail to the profiles that we feature.
Take a look at the new website at www.banktrack.org.
We very much appreciate feedback and comments on the new site - contact raymon@banktrack.org.