EIA Website (www.eia.gov) Redesign Coming Soon!
The Energy Information Administration is redesigning our website. This redesign is the result of extensive input from a wide variety of current and potential users. We have conducted many usability tests of the new design to make sure it improves the way you find things on our site. EIA plans to launch its redesigned website on Monday, November 28.

Notes: We have not changed the content on the site.
          All information available on the old site is available here.
          Links to www.eia.gov will remain operational. Same statistics, same reports, same analyses.
          Everything is the same except the navigation and the design.

The New EIA Home Page       (see additional sample pages)

                             

New Features:
The redesigned site has a new, easy-to-use layout and new graphical designs that we hope will help you find information faster. The old drop-down menus have been replaced with intuitive link names of our major information categories.

A hot box or current featured topic will appear in the upper right corner on the home page and many secondary pages so you can immediately see hot topics and/or recent data.

The old home page was busy with lists of reports and publications. The new design lists a few major reports on the home page with a link to "more....." The second-level publications page has three features to help you find the publication or report you need: an alphabetized listing of the next most popular reports, a search box so you can search by the name of the report, and a listing of reports by major subject area.

The home page and many of the pages one click off the home page now have a standard reference section on the right side of the page. Now you always will know where to find survey forms, ask an expert, basic information about that topic, and other reference tools. The Glossary appears at the top of every page.

The secondary navigation pages have been redesigned to more easily show you what we have and to organize the information in a more logical way. The new three-column format shows:
- column 1: data
- column 2: reports, analyses, and forecasts
- column 3: references and news
We plan to keep this design as consistent as possible over all the major navigation pages.

The vast majority of the links within the new site will keep the same names and remain operational. Over time, changes to a few pages may require you to modify your favorites links.

At this point, all the top navigation pages have been redesigned to the new format, but many pages deep in the site have not yet been converted. This transition will take place in the coming months.

Information from large organizations tends to reflect the organization chart rather than the way users look for information. This new design and navigation seeks to eliminate some of the traditional stove-piping by putting related topics together, whether they are produced in the same office or not.

For example, customers have had trouble finding forecasts from the data pages. The new design has a link to forecasts from all data pages.

More example pages...