Minneapolis Launches New Web Site Design

The City of Minneapolis has a new public Web site. The new Web design makes it easier for people to accomplish what they came to the city's Web site to do. The site also reflects the beauty, creativity, and energy of Minneapolis with vibrant photographs and an enhanced design.

There are a number of new features on the site:

• Content organized from the user's perspective, not based on city departments/divisions making it easier to find service and information listings even if the department is unknown
• Dynamic menus allow users to easily drill down into content categories
• Prominent and consolidated space for Spanish, Somali, and Hmong Web content
• Improved accessibility for visually impaired visitors, and those who cannot use a traditional computer mouse
• New opportunities to highlight top city news "stories" for Web visitors
• Dynamic photographs promote the beauty and vibrancy of Minneapolis, and reflect changes in season and subject matters

The new Web site should be up in the next few days, but it will take several months to transition all of the 15,000 pages on the site.