Specifications include, but are not limited to: The City of New Haven is seeking proposals from a firm or individual designer/website developer to improve the City’s current website www.cityofnewhaven.com,enhance its overall online user experience. Our goal is to provide simple electronic access to public services, serve as a public communications tool for residents, visitors and businesses. The website design and function should be in keeping with the City’s mission and sensitive to the Mayor's initiatives such as the cultural and arts, job creation, education, reducing crime and economic development. The immediate goal of this project is to redesign the current website's existing html and partial CMS into an entire CMS (content management system) format that will be easily navigated, easily updated, and contain placeholders for all downloadable documents, with improved multi-media and GIS (geospatial information system) mapping experience emphasizing the city's assets. The proposal should include the implementation of the latest generation of technologies to help excel our mission forward and to position the website for expansion as necessary.
