Biggleswade Town Council is looking to rebuild its website and would like residents to have an input. If you have any ideas they must be in by no later than 31st October 2011.
Contacts for Biggleswade Town Council :
01767 313134
Biggleswade Town Council
The Old Court House
4 Saffron Road
Biggleswade
SG18 8DL
Here are my thoughts:
ReplyDeleteI welcome that at last some members of the Town Council concur with the concept of consulting with residents regarding the Biggleswade Town Council Web Site; these are my expectations that I have passed to the Council:
Councillors details including photographs and all contact details, phone, address and email addresses all as 'name'@BiggleswadeTownCouncil.gov.uk
Minutes and agendas
Document archive
Local events and Council meetings calendar
Links to Biggleswade community group and useful web sites
Area maps
Live local travel and weather RSS feeds
Town news with with RSS feeds and an Online Newsletter that anyone can subscribe to
A-Z Local Directory
All Planning Applications coming before the Town Council with links to CBC documents
Site Search tool
Homepage visitor counter visible to all users
Online Contact Form
Email-a-friend to be able to directly recommend the website to a chosen email address
An FAQ page
Photo gallery
Blog page that councillors and administration staff can input to
Basic forum page
A Youth section with a youth representative as editor
On-line consultation with questionnaires and simple polls as subjects arise
Reports from the Mayor and Committee Chairmen
Online Booking Form for the use of the Chamber by resident groups
The town guide basic history of the town
Links to Bus and train time tables
Locations of bus stops
Locations of car parks and time limits
Precise locations of all play and recreational areas
Details of markets
Most of these require just one-off inputs with minimal maintenance. Therefore they will in fact reduce the amount of time the Town Council staff have to spend answering queries as well as giving the town a resource to be proud of.
I also said, "I note that there is no reference to this consultation on the existing Town Council web site, please add it. I have put a notice on the Town Plan web site announcing it.
Whilst you are attending to this addition please look at the Photo section which is not working at all, the Meetings section which has missing Adobe Acrobat and page header and footer graphics; all the links to documents for 2006/7 fail, including the link up to 2007/8, as do documents for 2007/8. Having got into the Meetings section there is no way back to the rest of the web site and there is no means for contacting councillors.
In short, the existing web site is an appalling mess; I fail to see how our Mayor can announce in the Biggleswade Chronicle to the contrary and be encouraging people to visit it!"