Council website redesign – Consultation now on!

Hi there

After many months of work in the background, we’re pleased to announce that we now have a proposed front page design for the relaunch of the St.Helens Council Website.

Please go to the test home page to have a look. Please use the comments box on this blog to let us know what you think.

Once you get onto the test site – you’ll find that much of the functionality is not currently working. However, you’ll be able to do the following:

- mouse over the news, event and “interact” images to change the images.

- mouse over the main promotional images  – these will ultimately link to appropriate pages.

- click, drag and drop the boxes in the centre of the according to your viewing preference

- click into the propsed News and What’s On pages

At this stage we’d love to know the following from you:

- what you think of the overall look and feel

- what else you think should be on the site

- what services you feel we should be offering online

Please use the comments box to let us know your thoughts, or if you can keep your comment to no more than 140 characters, the Twitterers amoung you can tweet or DM us @sthelenscouncil.

Lastly, thank you for your ongoing support and patience!

We hope you like the proposed new design. We look forward to receiving your comments.

Jobs feed added

Hi again

The latest feature on the website is the addition of the latest jobs feed.

Whenever a new job vacancy is added online, the feed will be updated. If you’re interested in receiving the latest on all job vacancies at St.Helens Council, set your browser or aggregator to read it. You can get to it from the front page of the site, at the top of the “Popular Links” section.

As with all of our feeds, all updates will be sent through our Twitter feed.

We are also progressing with a proposal for the redesign of the site. Don’t forgot to joing our consultation group where you can get a preview on the new design and give us your feed back on what you think. As before, to get involved, just leave us a comment here or simply email us.

Also, please do let us know any comments you have about the site or any suggestions as to how we can improve our online services.

Thanks again for visiting our blog. We’ve had over 1200 visits since we started, so thanks a lot for your continued support.

Join our website consultation group

Hi there

As phase 1 of the redevelopment of the website is now completed, we’re now looking towards the major redesign.

Our Web Team are in the process of putting three designs together for what the site will look like early next year (hopefully late February – March) and, from December, we need you to help us choose the best one.

To that end, we’re setting up a Website Consultation Group of users. The consultation will take place exclusively online with a discussion group hosted by ning.com. Anyone can join the group, but you will need to register with us first so we can set you up with a password.

By joining the group, you will be given access to the three prototype sites and invited to share your comments on the forums based on:

• General design
• Accessibility
• Navigation
• Online services

To register with us, either leave a comment on this blog or email us.

For more information on what’s involved, again, please email us or call 01744 671609.

We anticipate that the consultation process will begin at the beginning of December, so please do join up soon.

Thanks.