Website Development Services

The Vendor is required to provide develop a modern, user-friendly website that allows users to explore the results of the agency, including text, tables, photos, figures, and interactive maps.
- Website content:
•    Create the website framework and structure; the client can add most of the content once page templates are created. 
•    The website design should be optimized for desktop use and there should be at least minimal functionality on mobile.
- Menus and searching: 
•    It should be easy to navigate between different sections of the website, and the user should be able to easily jump between a species account and the interactive map for that species.
- Interactive map:
1. Basic navigation and display
•    Dynamic zoom and pan: the system must allow users to zoom in/out and pan in any direction across the map. 
•    Layer visibility: users must be able to toggle specific data layers (e.g., satellite imagery, street names, or custom boundaries) on and off. 
•    Scale limitation: the application should dynamically show or hide layers based on the current zoom level (e.g., street names only appear at high zoom). 
•    Default extent: the tool must provide a "home" button to immediately return the map to its original default view or geographic boundary.
2. Search and information retrieval
•    Attribute search: the system must allow users to search by species (by common name) and specific locations. 
•    Info pop-ups: clicking on an atlas block should trigger a pop-up window displaying detailed metadata (e.g., data source, breeding status). 
•    Spatial querying: users must be able to select all breeding bird data within an atlas block or county. 
•    Optionally users should be able to draw a radius or upload a polygon and show all results within the drawn area. 
•    Advanced filtering: users must be able to filter data by categories (e.g., date range, region, species, or breeding status) with the map updating immediately. 
•    Cluster management: if displaying 1,000+ points, the map should use marker clustering to group nearby pins at low zoom levels to prevent browser lag. 
•    Export formats: the system must provide a download menu for "export selected data" in formats like csv, GeoPDF, or GeoTIFF. 
•    Print to pdf: users would ideally be able to generate a high-resolution pdf of the current map view, including a legend and scale.
- Website maintenance
•    Provision for the website to be hosted and maintained until 2048, when the fourth atlas results will be published (at which time we expect a new website to be released). 
•    Maintenance services should ensure that as much of the content and mapping features are retained as possible over that time span.
•    Maintenance includes security updates at all levels of the tech stack including, but not limited to: the webserver, front-end, back-end, databases, dealing with cybersecurity attacks in real-time, rewriting systems to remove any found vulnerabilities, system backups, addressing changes made by third-party libraries, etc.