Our team has completed the redesign of the official website of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE), now live at issmge.org.

The front page is now a magazine-style layout that puts the Society's own material up front — the latest news, recent Bulletin articles, recorded webinars, papers from the newest conference proceedings, and an at-a-glance summary of the Society itself: more than 90 member societies, over 20,000 members across 130+ countries, founded in 1936.

The site also reads differently. New typefaces have been chosen specifically with long documents in mind, because that is what most visitors come for: abstracts, Bulletin articles, and lecture pages. The change applies everywhere, not just to the new homepage.

What matters just as much is what stayed put:

• Every web address is unchanged, so saved links, bookmarks and citations still work.
• Nothing was moved or deleted; the full archive is exactly where it was.
• The Online Library and the Virtual University catalog hold the same material as before; they are easier to find and better presented.
• Members log in the same way, to the same tools.

In short: a new face on the same foundations. Nothing to relearn, and nothing lost.

Why it went this smoothly

We have built and maintained this website for years, and that is precisely why a redesign of this scale could be delivered without disruption. When a site is well structured and cleanly written from the start, a new design can be layered on top of it instead of forcing a rebuild, so the archive stays intact, the addresses keep working, and members find everything where they left it. "Nothing to relearn, and nothing lost" is not luck. Maintainable code makes it possible.

That is the standard we hold across every project: websites that look current today and can be updated again in five years without starting over. If you are planning a redesign, a rebuild, or want a site that will not fight you the next time it needs to change, we would be glad to talk.