MARYSVILLE — The city launched a new website this week that it hopes will be simpler and easier to use than its previous one.
“It also opens up the opportunity for us to put way more information on the site than we have in the past,” city spokesman Doug Buell said.
The website’s address remains the same: http://marysvillewa.gov/.
Department directors were interviewed over the summer about features they wanted the website to include, Buell added. A committee started working on the redesign and content in January.
The new website can be updated and managed remotely and some of the new features of the site include an option to sign up for different notifications, online event calendars, image galleries and slide shows, and the ability to change text sizes on any page.
The city hired CivicPlus and paid $13,000 for the redesign, Buell said. The city will pay the consultant $3,000 a year for technical support and access to new features when they are released.
Buell couldn’t recall receiving complaints about the old website but said that the city hadn’t updated it for the past five years and wanted a better functioning site for residents to use.
“I think every government struggles with how to reduce the number of clicks (residents) have to do down to two or three at the most,” he said.
Amy Daybert: 425-339-3491; adaybert@heraldnet.com.
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