Correction to Palladium-Item article about City of Richmond website
Today’s edition of the Palladium-Item has an article about the unveiling of the new website for the City of Richmond. The article has an error about the version of the website that was replaced with this exciting new launch - it does not replace a site created in 2001.
In 2003, Summersault was hired to create the new City of Richmond website and in October 2003, the new site was launched. The Palladium-Item published a story about this on October 9, 2003, with the headline “New city Web site offers cleaner look.”
In 2005, the City replaced the Summersault-built site with a completely different version created internally, and that is the version referenced in the article as not meeting the information technology needs of the City or the design and functionality expectations of users.
Given that it was fairly widespread knowledge that Summersault had created a previous version of the City website, we have asked the Palladium-Item for a correction clarifying that it was not our earlier work that was so much in need of replacement as a part of the recent effort.
Congratulations to the City on the launch of the new site, and congratulations to Programming and Micros for a job well done.
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December 10th, 2007 at 9:01 am
FWIW, As I was the one who did the re-design in early 2005, I think the P-I article is a little unfair. I was the *only* person doing ANY work with the website and had to develop the whole thing on my own, while working with an administration that not only has no idea what they want, but no idea what was possible.
I will be the first to admit that my skills are NOT predominantly artistically oriented, and that the new site *does* look a lot nicer. The 2005 remix featured a written-from-scratch content management system (At that time, I had not known about Wordpress or Joomla!.), fully searchable Richmond City Code database, and dynamically generated content. The backend of it all was pretty solid, and re-designing it, “Sprucing it up” as Scott said, would have been a trivialty.
In any case — I guess I can join the club of “former lovers of the city of richmond’s website” — is it open bar or cash bar?