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The Mayor and City Council shall hear a presentation from Vision Technologies on their proposal to redesign the City of Maricopa website.
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The City of Maricopa’s website has become outdated and is in need of a redesign. Previously the website was designed and maintained internally with only one staff member having the knowledge and skills to make significant design and development changes to the site. After talking with several cities about how their websites are being managed staff is recommending hiring a company that specializes in the design and maintenance of government websites.
A staff member will still need to be designated to oversee the overall site and make updates as needed. Contracting with a company for the website will allow any staff member the ability to call the selected company 24 hours a day/ 7 days a week for support as needs arise and give each department more ability to easily update their own content. Also, freeing up the person in the Multi-Media and Web Services Coordinator position to dedicate more time to the management of video production and graphic design. The selected company will also ensure site security, that the site is usable on all devices and work with staff to ensure it is as intuitive as possible for our residents.
Assistant to the City Manager, Jennifer Brown, and Chief Information Technology Officer, Cary Gielniak met with three different companies specializing in designing and maintaining government websites. We also spoke to several cities about the companies they use to design and maintain their sites. Through both methods Vision Technologies came across as the best fit for the City of Maricopa looking at customer satisfaction, needs and costs. Vision has designed and maintains websites for Gilbert, Mesa, Tempe, Sedona, Buckeye, Queen Creek, Peoria, Goodyear, Yuma County and Avondale.
Peoria recently went through a competitive bidding process for their website redesign and selected ...
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