Website Design and Development Services

The vendor is required to provide to design and develop a new website that will replace our current site.
- The site is a craft content management system (“CMS”) 3, which is at end-of-life and is no longer supported.
- The site’s features are not up to date with the newest advances in software development, plugins, and website best practices;
- The current structure of the site has not been able to adequately accommodate a growing suite of teams and programs;
- The current site is too reliant on external web developers for editing;
- Many pages have been added ad hoc since the site’s creation and resultantly lack the insights provided by a UI/UX engineer;
- The site lacks accessibility and language translation capabilities;
- Many of the pages require a refresh and restructuring for a better user experience;
- The overall look and feel of the site is dated. - Work closely together to thoughtfully design and develop a new website that will serve us for years to come.
- Help us select a new web host.
- Training in both website editing and website best practices for key agency staffers. - Well branded, clean, well-organized/structured, visually appealing
- Great news and events pages layout
- Two menu options: menu bar on top, sidebar menu within pages
- Many opportunities for photos; various options for photo captions and credit
- Language and accessibility menus
- National society
• Unique look, visually appealing, well branded
• Good use of tags for different subject categories
- Chapa
• Clear buckets for different audiences to find relevant information in
• News section makes it easy to incorporate photos easily
• Map element on the “municipal engagement initiative” page
- Mass budget
• Clean, user-friendly design
• Incorporates “featured” rotating tease
• Like the use of rotating images for the hero image
• Sub-navigation appears simple; site makes it very easy to find exactly what type of resources you are looking for
• Simple and bold “about us” page
- Mass Inc.
• Easy to navigate “events” page
• Good use of tagging in the “updates” section
• Gives audiences various ways to find materials, either organized by topic or delivery method
- East bay regional park district
• Ability to easily switch the entire website to a dozen languages
• Incorporated an interactive map
• Ability to seamlessly incorporate videos on “publications and media” page
- Barr foundation
• Front page incorporates dynamic photos
• The search bar is large yet unobtrusive
• Top navigation is very simple with only three category buckets
• Each topic bucket has a section with information about the team working on that topic, including photos of the team
• “Staff” page, under “about us,” is different than others; provides contact info, associated works, and a bio for each staffer
• The site appears to have a well-maintained and flourishing blog page
- UI/UX design
• We are a quasi-public non-profit organization with a very broad mission and many diverse audiences. • In addition to the general public, researchers, and housing advocates, we do both business-to-business and business-to-customer transactions.
• We want to ensure that our site is easily navigable for discrete audiences.
- The selected developer and/or agency will be responsible for all aspects of quality assurance testing and should detail the quality assurance and warranty process in the response, including the client's involvement in testing and final acceptance.
- Accessible/ADA compliant; accessibility audit; able to implement accessibility and language translation options (including Spanish, Chinese, Portuguese, cape Verdean creole, Haitian Creole, Russian, Vietnamese and Khmer Cambodian).
• The website must comply with the Americans with disabilities act (ADA), title ii, and meet the required standards.
• The selected developer must provide documentation of accessibility testing.
• Additionally, the site must remain accessible across desktop and mobile platforms.
- Test environment available on an ongoing basis.
- Third-party software integrations (mail chimp, salesforce)
- Mobile device optimization
- Training
- Ongoing maintenance and support; include defined service level agreements
- Cybersecurity – include a cybersecurity plan outlining access to controls, logging and alerting, a vulnerability assessment and general best practices.
- Bidders offering hosting services must be soc2 compliant.