Chad Ruder, director of Information Technology for the metropolis, gave a tour of the metropolis’s redesigned website at some stage in the fee’s frequently scheduled assembly at City Hall.
Haysusa.com has nicely over 200 pages. But Ruder stated residents have to find the brand new layout easier, discover what they need, and get matters carried out.
“I invite you to visit Haysusa.Com. It went stay on Monday,” Ruder instructed the commissioners.
Residents will discover bureaucracy, calendars, up-to-date town news, and be capable of paying their payments online, Ruder stated.
“It needed to be informational and modern-day; you don’t want old stagnant records and an intuitive format. You need people to navigate their way through,” he stated.
The site is likewise ADA-compliant for visitors with special wishes.
“There are tools you install,” Ruder defined. “They install a software program on their PC, and it helps to view the site for them … We wanted to be compliant, and the bundle we’ve is.”
The website’s landing page starts with 5 separate mega-menu classes: Government, Departments, Services, Visit, and “How to Do I …”
“The ‘How do I…,’ for my part, is essential,” Ruder said. “It drops down and gives you alternatives.”
And right inside the center of the home web page is a “Search” alternative.
Scrolling down, site visitors can choose from seven informational buttons, starting from Employment and Water Conservation to Make a Payment or Submit a Request.
“The backside buttons came about based on layout traits and the analytics from our preceding websites,” Ruder stated. “Where do humans pass, what are they searching out, whether it’s easy to get there or no longer, and in which do they grow to be?”
Scrolling down the home page, site visitors will discover town news broken up into sections.
“We have a news flash in which push records end up,” he stated. “And we have a carousel of very essential items. You nowcan see water conservation, our North Vine Corridor mission, the Metropolis Commission, and the Waste Water Treatment remodel.”
Currently, the city uses a gadget called “Nixle” to ship out email and text notifications. Still, Ruder stated recipients should watch for an alert about the new “Notify Me” machine.
“We’re going to stay with Nixle for only a little while we get our feet wet on notifications, after which we’ll transition faraway from it,” he stated.
With Nixle, citizens have said they aren’t getting the form of records they need, said Commissioner Sandy Jacobs. She requested Ruder to understand the phrase accessible’s a brand new machine.
“I think there are a variety of humans out there who would like to apply it but didn’t recognize what it becomes and didn’t understand what the phrase Nixle way, where Notify Me makes it pretty clear,” Jacobs said.
“It’s an essential portion of the internet site,” Ruder agreed, explaining that residents can go to “How to Do I…” and join up for notifications specific to their interest, whether public safety, street work, emergency alerts, calendar gadgets, agendas or many others.
