WebShed has a number of years of experience working in local government, WebShed understands how local government/councils operate and can provide custom built solutions to address council specific issues.
WebShed has years of experience as an employee of, and a contractor to Councils. WebShed has a deep understanding of the inner workings of Councils and the challenges they face.
Council Specific CMS
We have a Content Management System that has been built specifically with Local Government/Councils in mind. It focuses on how Councils work and their staff. By doing this, Councils gain huge benefits.
Councils benefit because the custom-built systems are designed to streamline tasks and save them time. Our CMS is built using open source CMS system SilverStripe which a number of Councils in New Zealand already use.
- Massive staff time savings
- Up and running in a short amount of time
- Cost effective
- Ability to customize
- Flexible
- Less reliance upon designers
- SilverStripe CMS
Web Audits/Reports
We can help your Council to get a good understanding of your current website and how it is performing. We can review your current site and provide a report so you know what is working and what needs improvement.
Our reports can cover a number of things depending upon your budget and how deep a review you're after. We have worked with a number of Councils to create these reports to help them with their current and future decisions around websites.
What makes our reports different?
We focus on making it easy for the Council to understand and we also take both website customers into account (internal and external users).
Council Case Studies
In 2023 WebShed helped Otorohanga District Council to design and rebuild their main council website. Their objectives of the website build were; customer focused, easy to navigate, less clicks, meet accessibility standards, responsive, one stop shop, accurate content and less jargon, effective searches, modern & less busy design.
WebShed completely project managed the project and delivered the website two weeks early and on budget.
Take a look at some of the great new features that the website has to offer it's customers:
- Meetings calendar with agendas & Minutes
meetings calendar with agendas and minutes all incorporated with ability to add to your own calendar - My property search
search for properties and get all details in one place e.g. rates, property details, parcels, building consents, resource consents etc. - Documents & Forms
list all documents and forms in one place with quick filtering and search ability - Latest news
all news in one place with quick filtering and search ability - Real popular links
real stats pulled from Google Analytics API and quick access from all pages - Do it online
lists all online services on one page and quick access from all pages - Ability for page content to be real aloud
- and much much more...
The above features are what their customers can see but one of the real features of their new site are the backend features that have allowed the staff to make massive time savings when loading and maintaining the content and documents on the new website.
If you would like to know more or book a demo let's talk.
Online Presentations
Yass Valley Council has always gone out to the public to present their Draft Operational Plan. In 2020, with COVID-19 lockdown rules, they needed a new way to inform and present to the public. WebShed helped with an online solution for this problem.
Data Visualisation
Hawke's Bay Regional Council needed an easy way to show if a catchment is exceeding the DIN limit based on an average of 5 years of sampling data. Land owners need this information to determine if their land in the subcatchment will be required to have a Land Use Resource Consent from 1 June 2020.
Websites
Wairoa, Napier, Hastings, Central Hawke's Bay and Hawke's Bay Regional Council worked together to build their new websites. WebShed helped with user interface, user experience, wireframing, website migration and project managed this large website project delivering five individual websites.
WebShed have worked with a number of Councils
Otorohanga District Council
Website Audit, Website Requirements Paper, Project Management, Analysis, Web Development, User Experience and User Interface, Wire Framing
Yass Valley Council
Web Development, Content Management, Online Consultation Web App
Hastings District Council
Project Management, Analysis, Web Development, User Experience and User Interface
West Coast Regional Council
Environmental Data Web App, Wire Framing, User Experience and User Interface
Central Hawke's Bay District Council
Project Management, Analysis, Web Development, User Experience and User Interface, Wire Framing
Wairoa District Council
Project Management, Analysis, Web Development, User Experience and User Interface, Wire Framing
Napier City Council
Project Management, Analysis, Web Development, User Experience and User Interface, Wire Framing
Hawke's Bay Regional Council
Project Management, Analysis, Web Development, User Experience and User Interface, Wire Framing, Environmental Data Web App, Drought Indicator Web App, Farmers Dashboards
Gisborne District Council
Website Review / Audit