[Keith Gordon]

Like others here, we try to keep ours up to date with all papers available, not sure that the design is the best but the Council has just redeisigned the whole website and I haven't caught up yet perhaps.

i like some of the other sites mentioned here - good work.

http://www.nwleics.gov.uk/scrutiny

[Nick Beale]

csmith Wrote:Hi we have a dedicated scruitny website which has information about current and future reviews and copies of the reports we have completed: http://www.scrutiny.canterbury.gov.uk/

That's a very nice looking site (enviable, in fact). Could you tell us about how it's maintained, e.g.

• who did the initial design and what did it cost?
• did the design have to follow a corporate template or were the pages purpose-bulit?
• can your scrutiny officers update the pages themselves or do they send the content to a web designer (and is there a cost)?
  

Thanks in advance.

[Charlotte Smith]

Fran Taylor Wrote:Thank you for your input Adam, that's certainly given me some interesting things to think about. I came across Canterbury's site a while ago and it remains the best I've seen yet. It makes it very easy for those that don't understand scrutiny to find out what they do and all about the work that's been undertaken and that Canterbury rightly seem to be proud of. Unfortunately the site is let down by non-scrutiny related issues - mainly that I can't get back to Canterbury's main site from that page (I would expect the logo on the top left to be a link back) and other logos and objects I would expect to be links actually aren't (sorry, I'm a web editor not a scrutiny officer so I notice these things!)

Thanks for the feedback! - i'll take a look at the links.

[Charlotte Smith]

Nick Beale Wrote:

csmith Wrote:Hi we have a dedicated scruitny website which has information about current and future reviews and copies of the reports we have completed: http://www.scrutiny.canterbury.gov.uk/

That's a very nice looking site (enviable, in fact). Could you tell us about how it's maintained, e.g.

• who did the initial design and what did it cost?
• did the design have to follow a corporate template or were the pages purpose-bulit?
• can your scrutiny officers update the pages themselves or do they send the content to a web designer (and is there a cost)?
  

Thanks in advance.

Hi, yes - a local firm based in canterbury designed the website www.cornishwebservices.co.uk

You can choose whether to update the pages yourself via their content management system or send them updates to implement. We use the content management system as have found the site needs regular updating which is easier to do yourself (and it works out cheaper).

They charge a fee for the initial design which would no doubt depend on the work required but we found it reasonable. On-going maintenance & hosting of the site and the licence for the content management system cost less than £300 per year which again seemed good value to us particularly as the website is one of the main ways we get topic suggestions from the public.

The pages were designed by the company but do follow the council's corporate style.

Hope this helps - if you would like further info my email is charlotte.hammersley@canterbury.gov.uk

[Jack Latkovic]

csmith Wrote:

Fran Taylor Wrote:Thank you for your input Adam, that's certainly given me some interesting things to think about. I came across Canterbury's site a while ago and it remains the best I've seen yet. It makes it very easy for those that don't understand scrutiny to find out what they do and all about the work that's been undertaken and that Canterbury rightly seem to be proud of. Unfortunately the site is let down by non-scrutiny related issues - mainly that I can't get back to Canterbury's main site from that page (I would expect the logo on the top left to be a link back) and other logos and objects I would expect to be links actually aren't (sorry, I'm a web editor not a scrutiny officer so I notice these things!)

Thanks for the feedback! - i'll take a look at the links.

While your taking a look at some glitches the links on the 'members' page don't seem to work.