The portal (https://beta.santomera.es), which will live for a month with its predecessor, was presented this morning
The press room of Casa Grande hosted this morning the launch of the new municipal website, which under the domain http://beta.santomera.es offers access to the extensive catalog of information, events, procedures and services that come from the City Council. Santomera
The mayor, Inma Sánchez Roca, the councilor of Transparency and Participation, Víctor Egío, and Vicente Blas López, project designer and manager of LaGolfa Global Internet Agency, were in charge of presenting the site, which will remain in testing mode for one month more, time during which you will live with the previous page (www.santomera.es) and that will be used to make the latest changes and incorporate possible suggestions.
The development of the new portal has meant a year of work in close collaboration between LaGolfa and different departments of the City of Santomera.
As recalled during the launching, it is the third version of the municipal website, after those published in 2003 and 2007. "After ten years, the previous page of the City Council did not offer an adequate response to the demands that the citizenship raises today, it was absolutely necessary to adapt to the new times and the new tools available, "the mayor has summarized.
In a similar line has been pronounced the mayor Victor Egío, who has stressed that "this website is also the main letter of presentation of our municipality on the Internet and it was urgent to make it more friendly, more useful, more transparent, more dynamic, more accessible and Safer".
The designer of the website, meanwhile, has underlined as main axis of the project usability, transparency, security and accessibility of information that local administration should make available to users and users.
"This page is a pioneer because it uses web standards that facilitate a correct rendering from any type of device, a free software that saves money and maintenance, and a user-centered design through a new content architecture and accessible and egalitarian nomenclatures that make easy and intuitive navigation, "he explained.
The new website of the City Council of Santomera also stands out for other aspects such as the improvement of the security of the connections ["It is the only website of a local administration in the Region that counts on all its pages with the SSL certificate, so that all the communications are encrypted, with no possibility of hacking, "Vicente Blas López assured] or the use of inclusive language.
There has also been a strong commitment to accessibility through elements to adjust the contrast or size of the lyrics and even players that automatically convert the texts into sound.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Santomera