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 This enhanced theme, coupled with our ProudCity Web and ProudCity … Continued
Last week, we presented to the City of San Rafael’s new digital team on applying an open, asynchronous, collaborative mindset to getting things done. “Always getting better” is a ProudCity mantra, a reminder to ourselves that if we’re going to genuinely serve our government partners and their communities, we must continuously release a better product. … Continued
Government Technology published a guest article, “Disasters Highlight the Growing Need for Digital Readiness,” by ProudCity CEO Luke Fretwell and San Rafael Senior Management Analyst Talia Smith.
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
Government Technology featured ProudCity in an article on our new ProudCity Recovers offering.
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
Government Technology featured ProudCity in an article on our new city government website price quote tool.
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
