Tuesday, January 19, 2010

New Heartland Website Ready for Internal Review

The Heartland Web Redesign Committee is pleased to share the URL for the Agency’s new, improved and completely redesigned website for internal staff review:
http://www.aea11.k12.ia.us/index2.html


The committee is very excited to debut the site and is confident that it will improve communication with our clients and partners. You will see a fresh design featuring tabs that provide access to the site by audience—Parents, Educators, Leaders, Job Seekers and Partners. This should make finding information easier for those who visit our site and will improve the user experience.


The Web Redesign Committee would like all Heartland staff to take some time to review the new site to determine if there are certain programs or services that are not represented or are under-represented on the website. If you identify areas for improvement or have any suggestions to offer, please e-mail comms@aea11.k12.ia.us. You may also want to talk to members of the Web Redesign Committee: Arletta Dawson (chairperson), Evan Abbey, Joshua Burke, Mary Cabeen, Courtney Croatt, Lynn McCartney, Sol Rajch, Julie Sypersma and Jennifer Gilmore.


If you are an author of Web content, you have until February 9 to review and edit your content. A checklist has been developed that is intended to guide authors, editors and approvers in the proper evaluation of online content areas under their responsibility. The expectation is that this checklist will be utilized to review the presentation of content for each specific program or service area. This checklist will also serve as a tool for spot-checking content on a periodic basis and for evaluating new content that is submitted for approval in the future. Click here to download the checklist.


The new website will be presented to the Heartland Board of Directors at its February 9 meeting and the site will go live to the public very soon after the board meeting.

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