We’d like to invite you to try out what we’re calling ‘version 1’ of new.shropshire.gov.uk. We have completed around 70% of the site and will be adding loads of new features over the coming days and weeks. Continue reading
We want the new shropshire.gov.uk to look fantastic on all devices. This means paying special attention to displays with a high number of dots-per-inch. Continue reading
As you may know we are busy working on a new shropshire.gov.uk. If you didn’t know, where have you been? Check out these articles to get up to speed. Go on, I’ll wait…. As mentioned in previous posts we are completely redeveloping shropshire.gov.uk, starting with Libraries. Part of this overhaul is to look at the user experience (UX). UX (from wikipedia) is: the way a person feels about using a product, system or service Our aim is to provide the user with best experience we can possibly give them allowing them to do what they want quickly and easily. The new design should be forgiving if they make a wrong turn and be intuitive enough so they should be able to figure … Continue reading
In preparation for the launch of new.shropshire.gov.uk we’ve set ourselves up with a brand new Facebook profile, you can send us all your feedback and ideas on there now too. Continue reading
This is a guest post by Brian Rapson, Team Librarian The minute we started working with the Web Team, their passion for improving the look and feel of our webpages and the content made it clear that it was not going to be just a matter of shoe-horning the old into the new, but would rather represent a new way of thinking and presenting the service to our customers. It was explained at the outset that this was not a process which would require changes to the service, but that it could potentially highlight elements of the way we work which could be reviewed in order for us to enhance the service that we offer. And indeed, it has proved … Continue reading
This is a guest post by Mark Jones, Web Content Authoriser For several years now, our team of web editors have done a magnificent job of keeping the council’s website up-to-date, telling us when pages need to be deleted or amended, or when attachments are obsolete. This has resulted in our website being commended externally as being dynamic relative to those of other authorities. However, given that we have over 300 editors across the organisation there are inevitably differences in approaches and contrasting levels of interest in the role. It is a time-consuming commitment, which can be difficult to balance with the demands of their day job. With the arrival of the new website, our intention is to slim down … Continue reading
We announced recently we’ve chosen Libraries as the pilot service for http://new.shropshire.gov.uk. This isn’t a decision we took lightly. We thought long and hard about which service we would choose and came up with some criteria. Continue reading
You’ve probably heard that we’re busy working on a new shropshire.gov.uk, this is something we’ve been planning for some time. Here’s an overview of the steps we go through for each service Continue reading
Over the next couple of months we will create a new ‘prototype’ version of Shropshire.gov.uk’s library pages that will focus on customer needs rather than the organisation’s to make it quick and easy for our customers to find what they are looking for. Continue reading
You may recall in May I posted an article on the increase in mobile traffic hitting our web services over the last few months, and as a result we set ourselves a new goal of incorporating responsive designs into future releases of some of those services – i.e. to improve the mobile web experience. Well in late November, we pushed a new responsive design out to the Shropshire Council Newsroom. Scaling the existing design down When I worked on the first version of a responsive design for the newsroom, I took the original fixed-width ‘desktop’ design and scaled it down. At the time it was the quickest and easiest method as there were no design changes planned, but it didn’t … Continue reading