To be successful, your city's web site must communicate effectively with your citizens. It needs to provide them with timely news and information about your community, make it easy for them to learn about events and classes, locate public documents, download the right forms, and find the right answers to their questions.

Most importantly, your city web site needs to make all of your city's information easy to find. It should be intuitive, easy to navigate, and it should anticipate visitors' needs so that they can take full advantage of its resources -- without the assistance of city staff.

A successful city web site will make it easy for staff members to update the information that citizens need. It will allow staff members in each department to take personal responsibility for those areas of information with which they are most familiar. It will give them tools for presenting their information so that it looks clean, professional and consistent with the rest of the web site. And it will provide them with these capabilities without requiring that they acquire new skills or learn to use special software.

For most cities, this blend of technical sophistication and operational simplicity has been beyond their reach, due to logistical or budgetary limitations. Which is why we created Ideas for Cities™.

Ideas for Cities is a 100 percent outsourced solution for your city's web site needs. Our team will work with your key city staff to re-design your web site so that it reflects your city's unique characteristics and serves your citizens' information needs. Then, we will rebuild your web site using web-based tools that put city staff firmly in control of web site content without placing any burden on your city's technical resources. The result: a uniquely designed web site that is citizen-friendly, cost effective and easy to maintain.

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