Website Redesign Services

The vendor required to provide to design, develop, and implement a new official city website.
- Create a dynamic website that is designed and organized in a manner that: allows visitors to easily find and access information; acts as a marketing tool for the city to highlight its programs, events and services, as well as its amenities and attractions to potential residents and businesses; is mobile-friendly; is easy to update and modify; and is able to incorporate components and integrate with third-party applications.
- Requirement:
1. Discovery and planning
•    Review of the existing city website.
•    Stakeholder interviews and needs assessment.
•    Information architecture and site mapping.
•    Content strategy recommendations.
2. Design and user experience
•    Design a unique, attractive website to completely fulfill all city requirements either in this RFP or in discussions with the city following the selection of a firm, consistent with city branding.
•    Design a unique home page for the city website. 
•    Design should be simple, aesthetically pleasing and allows users to easily access relevant information.
•    Mobile-first, responsive design for all devices.
•    Clear navigation and intuitive user experience.
•    Accessibility-focused design elements.
•    Alerts and notifications - display alerts prominently on the website with notifications sent via email and text messaging to subscribers
•    Include a highly-functioning search capability that allows the user to search the whole site or subsections within the site. 
•    The search should not be integrated with google search
3. Development, technical and administrator requirements
•    Be ADA compliant and meet WCAG 2.1 level aa standards.
•    Be compatible with modern browsers and mobile devices.
•    Use a secure, scalable content management system (CMS).
•    Meet industry best practices for security and performance.
•    Include content scheduling - set dates for content to automatically publish and expire
•    Have browser-based administration - update, delete, and create content from any device with internet access
•    Include the ability to schedule news highlights to go up and come down at a certain time.
•    Include the ability to hide and delete pages with no worries that they will later show up in a google search.
•    Include user-friendly vanity URLs that can be organized. 
•    Website content editors at the city should be able to set up friendly links themselves, and they should be easy to change, organize and search the short URLs. 
•    There should also be a way to set up approvals for these short URLs.
•    Ability for website content editors at the city to permanently delete pages.
•    Have ability to live edit - add, edit and move content directly on the front end of the site without the need to utilized or be trained in writing html or CSS code
•    Ability to turn pages off and on depending on the time of year and have them not turn up in a google search when they are off.
•    Ability to preview any changes made to content before publishing to the websites. 
•    This should apply to all types of content, including but not limited to: pages, calendar events, news and FAQs.
•    Ability to archive pages and content.
•    Ability to define a review schedule for all content, prompting the site editors to review published, non-date sensitive content periodically to ensure all items remain accurate.
•    Website content editors’ system should allow for city to be able to post an unlimited amount of content at no extra cost to city.
•    The site must allow multiple levels of review and approval of content, before the information is published on the site. 
•    Must have a minimum of two levels of approval. 
•    This should be able to be turned on or off depending on various factors.
•    The website must utilize a responsive design to display on varying monitor sizes-tablets and all mobile devices (windows, android, iPhone, etc.).
4. Required integrations
•    RecTrac (parks and recreation registrations and programs)
•    MUNICODE (city code and ordinances)
•    MyGov (online services, payments, and forms)
5. Universal calendar feature
•    Pulls and displays events automatically from RecTrac, Municode, and MyGov.
•    Allows events to be filtered by category, department, or date.
•    Displays events in a user-friendly calendar and list format.
•    Updates dynamically as events are added or changed in the source platforms.
6. Content migration and SEO
•    Migration of existing website content as directed by the city.
•    Identification of outdated or redundant content.
•    Search engine optimization (SEO) best practices.
•    Be act compliant and meet WCAG 2.1 level aa standards. 
•    The site should provide an ongoing way to maintain a compliant website (automated if possible).