Update the Parish Council website
From Claygate
February 2025
| 29. | Matters for information purposes only |
| …b: Update on the Claygate Parish Council website Cllr Bingham has received four responses from the five agencies she has contacted. Cllr Bingham will share her information and get an idea of what the Councillors are looking to achieve with a new site. ACTION – Cllr Bingham |
January 2025
| Matter for information purposes only. |
| Cllr Bingham gave an update on the current status of the new website. It was agreed that there is a lot of content on our current website where we try to fit too much into it. Cllr Bingham circulated some ideas and suggestions for the new site and confirmed that a good search function is a must. Also looking at including heat mapping. This is ongoing and will be discussed further in February. ACTION – Cllr Bingham |
| (extract from Parish Council meeting, 9th January 2025, item 19) |
December 2024
| To discuss the way forward for the Parish Council's new website. | |
There has been some debate on this subject amongst the parish councillors; a meeting was held to share their views. Cllr Bingham has already put in quite a lot of work for this and it was agreed that the best way forward would be to obtain quotes from three website developers.
ACTION – Cllr Holt and Cllr Bingham | |
| (extract from Parish Council meeting, 5th December 2024, item 13) |
November 2024
| To consider the specification to update the Graphical User Interface (GUI) for the PC Website—not the content of the technical implementation. |
| Cllr Holt explained that the idea was looking into changing the GUI—not the content—and to make the website look and feel more modern. It was agreed that the Communications committee would meet to discuss this and Cllr Holt would prepare some screen mock-ups. Cllr Bingham already has some mock-ups which she will share with Cllr Holt. This will be brought back to the main meeting in December and to be carried forward to a meeting in the New Year once the CPC website design has been finalised. ACTION - Cllr Holt, Cllr Bingham and the Communications Committee |
| (extract from Parish Council meeting, 7th November 2024, item 15) |
Website Design Brief
We require an upgraded website for the Claygate Parish Council which takes the following pictorial formats described using content from www.claygateparishcouncil.gov.uk and existing PDFs:
Home page:
- Written menu at top of page showing the below menu options from “This is Claygate” onwards
- Slider at top of Home page showing 3 photos which rotate:
- Three messages about the council with matching photos
- 1 – we are here for you to listen to your views and act on your behalf
- 2 – we have a strategic role as well as providing a set of practical core services for the village
- 3 – we care about Claygate and its community
- Three messages about the council with matching photos
- Eight pictures below slider on the home page showing new photo based menu format
- The eight menu options with pictures as follows and sub-menus below
- “This is Claygate” link to other village website (this can be added later once developed and does not need to be on the first version of the website)
- About Us (photo of the full council all together)
- Council Members (photo of each plus existing committee membership plus a biography)
- Remit (Charter document)
- Governance (photo of people meeting) pdf of governance also shown once clicked on
- Achievements (quarterly Achievements Slides in PDF form)
- Policies (written document with a pen)
- Services (photo of recent community event we arranged e.g. Brian Rhodes cup/village meeting)
- Existing Services shown as pictures which you can click on to get a description e.g
- Planning (picture of some plans on a table)
- Environment (picture of woodland/Claygate Common)
- Consultations (Showing people talking) -there is a button with a photo per consultation – we need to add recent ones such as NPPF and the recent such as NPPF and the recent one from EBC about Community Consultation
- Hanging Baskets/Troughs (photo of a hanging basket),
- Highway Garden Sites (photos of the sites and explanation of what we do with them)
- Remembrance Planning (Picture of our Cenotaph),
- Grants (Money Notes),
- Litter Picks (Photo of a recent litter pick) and article
- The Courier (Photo of Courier hanging out of door) - Organised by year and then under each year by issue but with photo pdf of the front of each issue
- Brian Rhodes Cup (picture of most recent person to receive it and some verbiage on them),
- Village Meeting (photo of a recent village meeting)
- New Initiatives such as:
- Weeds and Detritus (picture of a weedy road) article about this copied from Courier?
- Claygate The Way Forward (perhaps a photo from a meeting in the church?) article about this (copied from Courier)
- Local Plan work (article on what is going on copied from Courier)
- Claygate Centre and article on how we have been involved (copied from Courier)
- Soldier Biographies (Picture of a silhouette in situ in Claygate) – Haldeigh’s article about this work
- Village Sign Replacement (Picture of the new sign in situ) – article about this
- Bench for the Parade – article about this
- Existing Services shown as pictures which you can click on to get a description e.g
- Meetings (showing people round a table meeting)
- Organised so there is one button per year with the year number on it with a memorable photo from the last 5 years of something that happened in that year
- Tabular format of meetings and docs within a year is fine as per current website
- Finances (showing cash/money photo)
- Accounts by Year (Photo for each type of statement up to 12 docs)
- News (someone talking through a loudspeaker)
- Photo for each piece of news showing with a title under it (up to 10)
- Contact Us and GDPR Options for mailings (Showing photo of a letter being posted)
