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Everything you ever wanted to know about Buller will soon be available
on-line.
The Buller District Council has been developing a website since May. With
some fine tuning, the site – www.bullerdc.govt.nz - should be up
and running by next week.
The public will be able to tap in and look at over 80 'pages' of information
about Buller, complete with vibrant photographs and animated images.
The site contains a who's who of people at Buller District Council plus
a list of council's services, facilities and publications. A district
profile and a notice board are also available.
An on-site search engine, for those who want to find out something in
particular, is incorporated. This means the searcher can type in a subject
name to seek information.
For instance, the public will be able to find out about council requirements
for building consents and then print off from the site the necessary forms.
Development of the website has been a joint project between council's
information technology development team and a Christchurch company - Hairy
Lemon Web Solutions.
More than 250 hours have gone into building the site since May. Much
of this was done from Christchurch.
The council's "web development team" were able to check the
site's building progress daily through a 'test' site. This ensured information
about Buller incorporated into the site was correct.
"The council IT team have just been fantastic in supplying us with
the information we needed," Hairy Lemon director Graham Dockrill
said.
"Part of our brief from council was to make it an easy site to negotiate
- but also to make it a bit quirky."
While the site was static, it incorporated "interesting little"
animations. It was also designed to incorporate new information as the
need arose, Mr Dockrill said.
"This site was designed specifically for that."
This meant council staff would be able to continually develop and add
new information as required.
Council's computer systems-geographic information systems administrator
Carol Poynter said a lot of council staff ideas and skills were incorporated
into the site, including photographs.
The website team at the council would continue to develop the site ensuring
it was kept up to date, she said.
[Members of the Buller District Council website development team with
the "front page" of Buller's new website (from left) Lynley
Stechman, Hairy Lemon partners Sue Wilkinson and Graham Dockrill, Carol
Poynter, Tania Aldridge, Davene Vroon, (absent - Garry Howard).]
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