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<br />WS – Item 5 <br />WORK SESSION STAFF REPORT <br />Work Session Item No. 5 <br /> <br /> <br />Date: June 4, 2018 <br /> <br />To: City Council <br /> <br />From: Jeff Karlson, City Administrator <br /> <br />Re: City Website Redesign <br /> <br /> <br />Background <br /> <br />At the May 7th work session, the City Council requested additional information about the <br />Responsive Website Design upgrade proposed by GovOffice. Mike Chaloupka of <br />GovOffice prepared the information below to address the Council’s questions. He also <br />provided links to three city webpages that were upgraded to the Responsive Website <br />Design. <br /> <br />Why Responsive Website Design (RWD)? The number of U.S. residents using <br />smartphones increases each year, and the number of visits to government websites <br />increases annually, too. To extend service to the public whose choice of device is a <br />smartphone—don’t forget about tablets, too—a fully mobile-friendly RWD website is the <br />answer, as it conforms to any device from large desktop monitors to small smartphone <br />screens in either portrait or landscape view. <br /> <br />Why Now? RWD is not only the future, it is the present. All professional organizations, <br />including local governments, should be looking at RWD for its next website design/ <br />redesign. Many local governments across the country have already made the switch. <br /> <br />Generally, local governments are slow to adopt new Internet technologies, so while RWD <br />itself is not new, it is a new concept to cities. Most cities, including Minnesota cities, do <br />not yet have a Responsive Website Design. Making the switch now to RWD will serve <br />the City of Lino Lakes’ citizens better right away. Lino Lakes would become a model of <br />excellence. <br /> <br />Below are links to the RWD of two Minnesota cities and a third to a city in Iowa that has <br />a feature which may appeal to Lino Lakes. <br /> <br />http://www.cityofluverne.org/ <br />http://pinecity.govoffice.com/ <br />http://www.cityofforestcity.com/ <br /> <br />Luverne and Pine City are excellent examples of cities that have high quality images to <br />showcase on their website. Lino Lakes has images like these on the current website and <br />will have access to the same high quality images for use on the new website.