The City is redesigning its website with a focus on improving the overall user experience.
The City is aided in its work by an informal advisory committee made up of website development professionals and community members. When we are further along in the process, we will also be looking for community members to help with testing.
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See a screenshot of the homepage redesign below
Current Website Redesign Progress:
- Home page design created
- Key Navigation links selected
- Content review and editing underway
- Wireframing of Board, Committee, and Commission pages is underway
- Site map editing is underway
Timeline of upcoming project updates:
Wireframing options brought to informal committee: January
Site map proposals brought to informal committee: January
Content for interior pages finalized: February
Testing begins: February
Website Launch: Spring 2025
Previous updates:
- Home page elements selected
- Brand Colors chosen
- Overall simplicity of Home page for easier reading and navigation
- More white space
- Key containers
- “Hero” slideshow of key projects, links, or news
- News items
- Calendar
- High-level goals defined:
- Ease of Use for Visitor and for updating by staff
- Increased service cababilities
- More inter-activity between City and the community it serves
- New Website Platform – Civic Plus. Civic Plus serves thousands of municipalities nationwide, including many here in Maine – Portland, Lewiston, and Bath among them. We are currently reviewing the Civic Plus websites of other municipalities and are ascertaining what will work well for us.
- Analysis of current site. Through the use of analytics, we can see that the current site has far more pages than are currently used. We will look to pare down content and make it easier for visitors to find what they are looking for.
Review past meeting notes below.
