In case you've been wondering what we've been up to recently on new.shropshire.gov.uk here's a quick update for you about our work with Building Control, with a few words from the team themselves.
Here's what Mike Seager, Building Control Surveyor, had to say about working with us:
"The Building Control department of Shropshire Council sits within the Development Control section. We were informed a while ago that our web pages were to be transferred to a new web system from the old Lotus Notes CMS, this seemed pretty good to us.
The new system, built using Umbraco, allows for a more functional website and the new format is more in keeping with current website design.
We haven’t gone live to date, however the Web Services team supporting us have gone through a process with the Building Control team which helped them to gain an understanding of what the Building Control function is and how we need the web profile to support our marketing and promotion.
The Building Control function operates in an open marketplace thus we need to attain a high level presence on the web. The Web Services team have been extremely helpful and supportive throughout this process."
We really enjoyed our workshops with the Building Control team, it was great to have a wide variety of team members giving input and really helped us to understand how they worked and what they needed. We came away with a lot of material to work with...
Now that our side of the development is complete, the new site has been handed over to the team for them to start working on the content. It's a really big change from their old site (as you can tell from the print screens) but we think they're happy with how it has turned out!
Before:
After:
Ian Maddox Building Control Manager says
Our site needed to be more than simply just a web site, it also needed to meet our needs as a marketing tool.
The Web Services team took on board our specific business needs, and gave our service area a feeling of individuality.
We are extremely pleased with the end result. We’ve finally got a web site that we can work with and develop to meet our specific needs. From start to finish it was a pleasurable experience working alongside the Web Services team’.
Keep an eye on this blog for further updates about the Building Control service & all the other services we are developing for new.shropshire.gov.uk