SeaDog IT

Scope for scaleability

Each council has different needs and priorities when it comes to what they need to share online – and when. When we built this site for Camelford Town Council, we provided a basic site with the ability to share meeting minutes, contact details and news.

We made uploading meeting minutes a breeze, and also designed a custom plugin so that visitors can read the information online without having to download and open pdf files – as is usually the case on similar sites.

We spent time in the Parish, taking photographs to use on the site that would capture the atmosphere and iconic features of this famous mid-Cornwall town.

Critically, by building the site on the WordPress CMS, we provided a robust, secure, industry standard platform that provides both flexibility and scaleability.

So when the council engaged in their Neighbourhood Plan, the site was able to cope with additional content and quite significant tweaks to the navigation to reflect the new needs for information sharing with the community.

Community Dialogue

Good Councils are always looking to engage, inform and thus better represent their constituents – so when visitors want to comment on something they’ve read on the website, they can do this easily – or interact via Facebook and Twitter. We build in sophisticated features to make sure that spam is filtered out and no comment appears on the website without having been first moderated by council staff.

When the council needed feedback from the community for their neighbourhood plan we were able to incorporate a questionnaire into the site that helped them evaluate the response and plan accordingly.