Get Involved! (Part 1)
August 31, 2010 2 Comments
In earlier posts and new stories, we have hinted that we will be using your feedback to shape the websites. This wasn’t a hollow promise, and your time to shine is now here.
As we’ve mentioned, Warwickshire County Council offers an awful lot of services, and we need to start structuring the website in a way that makes it easy to find them.
When we (as WCC staff) think of how our services might be ordered, we often fall into the trap of following our internal structures. So instead of finding a service in a ‘useful’ section, it’ll be hidden in one named after a department or a team, which may make no sense to you.
So we would like you to categorise our services for us. We promise, it’ll only take a few minutes. In fact, the quicker and more impulsive your answers, the better! There are 166 services to sort, but we really don’t expect anyone to work through them all. Just click the ‘Done’ button when you’ve had enough.
Now that the evenings are drawing in, why not make an evening of it and get the whole family involved? The more people doing this, the better the website at the end.
Simply visit the following website and follow the instructions.
It’s completely anonymous, there are no right or wrong answers, and the only prize is the warm sense of pride from knowing that you helped shape such a well-visited website.
Many thanks in advance!
P.S.
For the record, we’re using a piece of kit called WebSort.
Is the proposal of the Warwickshire.gov.uk Project to create four stand alone websites and then promote each website separately?
Or……
Will “Warwickshire.gov.uk” be the central website which is publicised which when the public visit it they can then click on an image (embedded weblink)which directs them to one of the four web pages?
It may be easier for the public to remember one website which acts as a “one-stop shop” and directs accordingly.
Hi Carl
The thinking at the moment would be that the Warwickshire Direct site will be the main port-of-call for all visitors, and then provide links to the separate sites. We would certainly ensure that the three public-focused sites – Warwickshire Direct, the Corporate site (with our reports and strategies) and the Zone (for kids) – are all linked together and easy to find.
But we’ll be doing lots of user-testing to find the best way of doing this.
Thanks
Paul – WCC EServices