Colorado Moves to New Website Platform for Government Agencies Across State
13 November 2013 - 1:00PM
Business Wire
The Colorado Statewide Internet Portal Authority (SIPA) and its
partner, Colorado Interactive dba Colorado.gov, have offered up a
new content management system (CMS) using Drupal. Drupal provides a
modern, easy-to-use CMS that allows government partners across the
State of Colorado to create content rich websites.
SIPA serves more than two hundred CMS sites for state and local
government partners, and has seen tremendous growth in demand in
the past three years. The growth in the service required a look at
alternative platforms that would allow for more robust
functionality, greater stability, and the ability to serve a
growing number of users who access partner information via mobile
devices.
John Conley, SIPA’s Executive Director, stated, “Perhaps the
most important feature that will stay the same with the new CMS
solution is the price. By moving to Drupal, SIPA is able to offer
more of the advance features and functions that our customers have
been asking for while decreasing the overhead for our developers
and designers. This means that we will be able to roll out sites
faster than ever before and in a more cost friendly manner for our
operations. All of this equates to an important consideration for
our customers which is that sites supported and maintained by SIPA
and Colorado Interactive will continue to be free.”
Drupal offers features and functionality that outshines the
current CMS being used by the State of Colorado. In addition, it
offers state agencies a venue where they can place their
information for public consumption at no cost to their
organizations or constituents.
“The Drupal platform is especially effective for those state
agencies that do not have the staff or resources to allocate to a
lengthy website design effort,” said Colorado Interactive General
Manager Fred Sargeson. “Our goal is for this technology to be
accessible to every agency and local government across the state
and this platform allows for that.”
Some advantages and features of Drupal are:
- A single site theme that provides
consistent branding across State Agencies and their Divisions.
- Top-level navigation including user
personas that personalize the user experience
- Unique division-level home menus
- Responsive design
- Social integration
- An easy-to-use web content management
interface
- Content that is easily shared among
divisions and pages
- The ability to publish content
on-demand with no delays
- iFrames that deliver easy department
branding
- The ability to create our own vanity
URLs
- The ability to create web forms
- The time-saving ability to upload
multiple files at one time
The Colorado Department of Personnel & Administration (DPA)
launched its new Drupal website, www.colorado.gov/dpa, on October
17, 2013 which included nine mini-sites for each of the
department’s divisions. The DPA website is the largest state agency
to go live thus far. DPA was able to develop more than 600 pages of
web content in less than one week.
About Statewide Internet Portal Authority
SIPA, a self-funded government
organization established in 2004, serves as the oversight body of
the Colorado.gov portal. Colorado.gov is the gateway to Colorado
government and it is intended to be Colorado's single most
comprehensive delivery channel for e-Government services. SIPA’s
vision is to transform Colorado government service delivery through
the use of technology, allowing a single point of contact for
members of the public to access state and local government
information, products, and services. In addition to free websites
built on the Drupal 7 platform, SIPA provides technology solutions
including Google Apps for Government, electronic payment processing
(credit and debit card), geospatial maps, CRM tools, and cellular
mapping solutions.
About Colorado.gov
Colorado.gov is the official website of the State of Colorado
(http://www.colorado.gov) and is overseen by the Statewide
Internet Portal Authority. Colorado.gov helps State and local
government entities Web-enable their services and is operated
without tax funds through a public-private partnership between the
state and Colorado Interactive, LLC. Colorado Interactive builds,
operates, maintains, and markets Colorado.gov and is part of
eGovernment firm NIC’s (NASDAQ: EGOV) family of companies.
About NIC
NIC Inc. (NASDAQ: EGOV) is the nation’s leading provider of
official government websites, online services, and secure payment
processing solutions. The company’s innovative eGovernment services
help reduce costs and increase efficiencies for government
agencies, citizens, and businesses across the country. Our popular
self-funded solution allows government to put in-demand services
online without using taxpayer funds. The NIC family of companies
currently provides cost-effective eGovernment solutions for more
than 3,500 federal, state, and local agencies in the United States.
Additional information is available at www.egov.com.
Statewide Internet Portal AuthorityJohn D. Conley,
720-409-5637Executive DirectororColorado Interactive dba
Colorado.govFred Sargeson, 303-534-3468General Manager
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