Based on our work with cities, we’ve updated our default website theme to make it easier, faster and cheaper for municipalities to launch city government websites. Theme enhancements include: Cleaner user experience Refined information architecture Navigation, page template clean-up Additional page templates New default settings As part of the onboarding process, we’ve added a new … Continued
Public Spend Forum featured ProudCity as one of seven government technology startups to watch In 2019.
You can now customize fonts on your ProudCity-powered government website. Accessibility We’ve accounted for accessibility in choosing the fonts available for use, which is why there is a limited selection. We’ve also modified font weights in some areas to make previously ‘thin’ fonts more legible. Public Sans As part of the newly-updated United States Web … Continued
To better provide world class support to our government partners, as well as the government community at large, we’ve combined ProudCity Platform knowledge support with general digital government information and resources. ProudCity Help, located at help.proudcity.com, provides answers, tips, templates, guides and best practices in digital government on topics such as websites, accessibility, security, analytics, … Continued
When disaster strikes, anxiety is high and community members immediately look to government and emergency management leaders for timely, reliable, mobile-friendly, accessible information. The ensuing chaos exacerbates when communications — the information and delivery mechanisms — aren’t efficiently deployed. As disasters become more routine, digital response and recovery preparedness is critical. Governments can no longer … Continued
To better assist digital preparedness related to response and recovery efforts, we’ve created a recovers website governance template. The template was adapted with permission from the original policy developed by the Marin Recovers. It was used to help socialize and get buy-in throughout Marin County (Calif.) on governance and protocol ahead of a disaster so … Continued
Public Spend Forum featured ProudCity as one of seven government technology startups to watch In 2019.
Local government leaders, particularly small cities, don’t have the time, energy or resources to spend weeks (or months) and thousands of dollars navigating the nuances of pricing, modern technology standards and best practices of government websites. Legacy government website vendors, with outdated offerings and sometimes opportunistic pricing, only confuse governments even more on this front. … Continued
When we first started ProudCity, we set up a simple company website at proudcity.com and, as early-stage startups do, spent all of our time focused on building the platform, onboarding early customers, and refining our processes so that we could scale government impact. Over the holiday break, we finally used some downtime to dogfood proudcity.com … Continued
Public Spend Forum featured ProudCity as one of seven government technology startups to watch In 2019.
