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City of Bloomington Releases Updated Website
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 15, 2008
Bloomington, IN -Mayor Mark Kruzan is proud to announce the release of the new City website. The new site has been designed from the ground up including new content and new technical and accessiblity features.
Bloomington's website is online at [http://bloomington.in.gov].
Among the many new features, we are particularly pleased to introduce the new myBloomington web application at [http://bloomington.in.gov/myBloomington]. myBloomington provides location-based information about City services available at individual community addresses. This tool pulls data from the City's GIS system and other data sources to create a unified profile/portal to information about address locations in Bloomington, such as the latitude and longitude of any address, City Council districts and Councilmembers, trash pickup day, nearby road closings, historic sites, parks, public art and more.
Other new content includes...
- Service-centered organization: [City services|/documentTypes/documents.php?documentType_id=4] are listed throughout the website with most areas prominently displaying related and featured City services.
- Additional Spanish language content: Many core pages of the website feature Spanish translations to facilitate access by our community's Latino and Spanish-speaking populations. [http://bloomington.in.gov/languages]
- Significant new arts and economic development content.
- Enhanced online maps: the location tool at [http://bloomington.in.gov/locations] helps you find City facilities and points of interest in the community using the the Google Maps API.
- Data Center: We have started populating our Data Center area at [http://bloomington.in.gov/datacenter] with new information including noise violation charts, with more to come.
- Website content is available in [XHTML|http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/] page output with [RSS|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(protocol)] feeds provided for news and other website content at [http://bloomington.in.gov/feeds#rss]. Our enhanced calendar features downloadable [.ics|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICalendar] standard (iCal) calendars at [http://bloomington.in.gov/feeds#ics]. Location information is available in downloadable [KML format|http://code.google.com/apis/kml/]format for use in [Google Earth|http://earth.google.com/] at [http://bloomington.in.gov/feeds#kml].
"We couldn't be more pleased at the collaborative nature of this project," said Rick Dietz, Bloomington Information & Technology Services Department Director and project leader. "We have worked closely with hundreds of people inside and outside of the city."
This project was made possible by a diverse team including...
- City [ITS Department|its] Website Team (Rick Dietz, Alan Schertz, Cliff Ingham, Emily Brown, Walid Sibo, Ashley Davidson and former city Webmaster Cynthia Ramlo), plus Rick Routon, Laura Haley and all of the ITS Team.
- City [Office of the Mayor|mayor] Communications Staff and Interns
- City [Community and Family Resources (CFRD)|cfrd] Staff for new [Spanish language|/languages/documents.php?language=es] content
- Dozens of City Department Web Administrators
- [Hanapin Marketing|http://www.hanapinmarketing.com] (interface design)
- [IU Adaptive Technology Center|http://www.indiana.edu/~iuadapts/] (Accessibility reviews)
- [IU Informatics|http://www.informatics.indiana.edu/] UX (User Experience) Action Squad
- The [Opensource|http://www.opensource.org/] and [Free Software|http://www.gnu.org] community for creating: [Linux|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux], [Apache webserver|http://httpd.apache.org/], [MySQL|http://www.mysql.com], [PHP|http://php.net] and other open source tools used to create this website.
Dietz further stated that this release is just the beginning.
"We see this is a living, breathing website and a platform for many things to come. Expect new features in the coming months."
For more information about the website visit [http://bloomington.in.gov/website]
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