Welcome to the new Nashville.gov
For further information, contact:
Molly Sudderth, 862-6030
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 28, 2007
This Friday evening Nashville.gov launches a new version of the city’s award winning web site. The improved site includes easier navigation, a Google search engine and a cleaner, streamlined home page.
The new web site will make it easier for those who live, work or visit Nashville to get information. Whether you want to learn about Metro Council meetings, building permits, schools, jobs, or tourist attractions, Nashville.gov will guide you.
“Nashville.gov is a key to bringing Metro Government to the citizens of our city and to people around the world,” said Mayor Bill Purcell. “The new Nashville.gov will improve access to the city and its programs and show why Nashville is a great city to live, work and raise a family.”
For the past five years Nashville.gov has been recognized as one of the top 10 big city internet sites in the nation by the Center for Digital Government in its annual Digital Cities Survey. The award winning Citizen’s Guide to the Budget puts information about the city’s expenditures and revenues in the hands of citizens for every department. The eBid program has increased revenues for the city with the sales of surplus property.
The new home page will include better organized and more prominent links to the most often visited sites at Nashville.gov. The links will be under the categories Live, Work and Play. The Live category will include links to sites about schools, public safety and health services. The Work category will include links to sites for finding government jobs, building codes, and transportation. The Play category will include links to Metro Parks and entertainment venues.
“This has been a major undertaking by the Information Technology Services Department to revamp the entire Nashville.gov website including all 18,000 web pages on the site,” said ITS Director Sandy Cole. “The new site will not only be more accessible to the public, it will also allow ITS to get information on the site more quickly and make changes more easily.”
Cole credited the members of the ITS Web Team Matt Adams, Melissa Gann, Robert Rawlins, Michelle Renfro, Ashley Scott, Michael Watson & Mike Kalas for producing a newer, sleeker web site.
One of the major changes on the site, according to Cole, is the new Google search engine which will make it easier for people to find information on the site with a keyword search.
The new site will also have a more prominent calendar for information about Metro events and meetings.
A snapshot of the new Nashville.gov