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Enfield To Introduce Redesigned Town Website [The Hartford Courant]
[October 13, 2014]

Enfield To Introduce Redesigned Town Website [The Hartford Courant]


(Hartford Courant (CT) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Oct. 11--ENFIELD -- The town will present its newly redesigned website Tuesday morning, including features not available on the current site.

The new website cost $38,000 for a one-time developers cost and will cost $6,000 annually to maintain. The current website costs approximately $15,000 a year to maintain.

Programs like "SeeClickFix" will still be available for residents, but will now be identified on the website as "Report A Concern." The town's email signup notification system will be labeled "Notify Me." The site also features a community post platform where residents can "like" different ideas residents or town staff post, under the label "Let Us Know." Assistant Town Manager Derrik Kennedy said the website "reflects Enfield" in a way the current one doesn't.



The town hired website developers from Civic Plus to design the new site.

Kennedy said the town started talking to different website developers in April, but decided Civic Plus would create the new website because "they create a website from square one ... the developers pride themselves in creating websites so that no two are alike." Kennedy said the developers' team had staff fill out surveys and questionnaires and send photographs of the town so they could "get a flavor" of what Enfield is like.


Kennedy said department heads will have more responsibility and freedom to keep their web pages updated with new content.

"Department heads will save time. We won't have to go through the information technology department in order to get things on the web," Kennedy said. "It streamlines the whole process." Kennedy said all staff members have taken part in website training.

"I think residents will, after a learning curve, see the new site as very user-friendly," Kennedy said.

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