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The evolution of an interactive page
When we kicked off the 'recycling and rubbish' phase of new.shropshire.gov.uk, it was made clear during the analysis stage that a page would be needed to allow people to find out 'what can I recycle w…
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Rolling back to go forward
This week was a big step for the new.shropshire.gov.uk project. 'Phase 2' has been pushed out so quickly and efficiently that if you blinked, you would have missed it! 'Phase 1' o…
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Digital Futures 2012
Yesterday (Monday 10 September) Chris Jones, Louise Tierney and myself attended the Digital Futures 2012 event at the Theatre Severn in Shrewsbury, organised by our colleagues in Shropshire Council's…
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What do our customers want?
I am going to start this post with a couple of questions: Why do you visit council planning web pages? Have you already visited ours? The reason for these questions is that I have been tasked with fi…
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Update on new.shropshire.gov.uk
Firstly apologies for being a little quiet about new.shropshire.gov.uk but you may have read on previous posts we've had a few 'hiccups' with Umbraco, but we're back on track. We mentioned previously…
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Our day out at Socitm
Yesterday Lorna and I went to Socitm's Building Perfect Council Websites 2012 conference at the National Motorcycle Museum in Birmingham. We were invited to host one of the breakout discussion groups…
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Farewell Martin Wright
This is a bit late coming, but something I thought was needed. Our colleague Martin Wright, leader of the Web Team, co-conspirator in Project WIP and a close friend to many of us - left Shropshire…
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Service by location
One of the features of the new.shropshire.gov.uk prototype site is the ability to find a service by location - for example, 'find my nearest' library. There are two main components to this. The first…