About
This blog will chart the largest round of developments to happen to the Warwickshire County Council website since its launch over ten years ago.
The aim of the work is simple – to improve the way all of our visitors find information, access our services, and feedback to the council online.
We therefore need your input. We’ll be posting progress reports, designs, consultations, etc and really hope you tell us what you think.
We realise that the vast majority of visitors to our site aren’t web developers, so we’ll try to avoid any technical conversations (if we do accidentally stray into this arena, please feel free to rein us back in). We also want to steer clear of talk of strategies, visions and the like.
Instead, we want to focus on the areas that really affect you as a Warwickshire resident, business or visitor – the bits that will actually affect how you use the site, the designs, the navigation, the structure, the popular tasks, etc.
(If you are a website developer and interested in the technical work currently going on within the council, take a look at the rather excellent Application Strategy blog.)
And if you’d like to contact us about anything (within reason), please feel free to drop us an email (webmaster@warwickshire.gov.uk) or phone 01926 736342.
Are there any proposals for the site to be a potential vitual one stop shop with regard to directing residents of Warwickshire to various partner websites?
Akin to a Partnership contacts page..
Hello Carl – Apologies for the delay in replying.
We will absolutely be linking to our partner agencies – the district/borough councils, Warwickshire Police, NHS Warwickshire, etc.
Still early days with the designs, but we may well have links to these from the homepage (similar to how we have it at the moment – http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/home ).
We’d also make sure that we keep pages like our bin collection page – http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/kerbside . This service is run by the district/borough councils, but as WCC has a lot to do with waste disposal and recycling, we thought it would be a good idea to include this as well.
Thanks
Paul – WCC EServices