Purpose: This policy’s main objective is to layout the ground rule for people interacting with the website. This is a living document and the policy is likely to change as needs or technology changes please check it before making an assumption. Scope: City of Richmond Virginia has several overlapping websites that are not all maintainedRead… Read more »
As I look to what content should be in my new redesign I thought it would help to understand what the common Vocab would be. I surveyed 230 municipal websites Looking to see the common factors among them. Some items where combined together like Contact and contact us because they were so close as toRead… Read more »
Last week I posted about sending a request to several (100) cities whom used Google Analytic. The request was to be added to the GA account you can see the full request here https://www.govloop.com/xn/detail/1154385:Topic:597747?xg_source=activity So here is the results of what I have received so far. Time to be responded to. (with 26 responses) 1Read… Read more »
Why would I care well since the GA control panel can give out so much information I have written each of the cities asking for permission to be add to the security of GA with my Gmail account. This task takes less then 5 minutes and should give no private information. Being in control ofRead… Read more »
As we talked about earlier I wanted to follow up with an email. We as DIT, want to keep the bandwidth and storage as low as possible because that is an easy way to save money. But we want to give great quality of service to our customers. To accomplish all of those goals itRead… Read more »
I am doing some research and part of that is understand which cities are using Google Analytics So far the list is at 107 cities. Anyone interested in that list?
After getting the Google Custom Search engine up and running on the richmondgov.com website it was only a matter of time before someone found a bad result. In my case it was my director who did a search on their name and had two bad results. One was a 404 and one was expired content.Read… Read more »
This is some documentation that I am doing for work. Software as a Service(SaaS) is using an outside resource to provide a Software Packages to the city so we do not need to build and maintain every application. History The city of Richmond has been doing this for sometime with web application. Although I doRead… Read more »
I have a unique sort of view on municipal websites. So I not always sure that I am a fair customer as I view 250+ cities at any one time. But I do have a chance to compare lots of things with websites that have very common websites. With that said I started doing designRead… Read more »
Number Of Occurances after surveying 250 Municipal Websites this was the Occurrence of of each menu title. menu items hits parks 160 special events 120 Aquatics 100 Golf 90 Facilities 89 special gardens 89 about 88 board 87 trails 85 rentals 84 recreation 83 Activity Guide 69 pools 69 camps 69 sports 68 Golf CoursesRead… Read more »