On Tuesday, November 6, 2018, Wisconsin’s largest municipal web design agency wanted to give back to the the municipal clerk and election workers at the towns, village and cities where midterm elections are held. It’s a hectic day for municipal clerks all across Wisconsin and other states in America, as most municipalities expect record turn… Read More
One thing we provide to all customers on the latest version of our Municipal Web Design Platform (TownCMS v5) is free updates and feature enhancements. Everybody gets this, automatically…but only if you’re on TownCMS v5. In the past month (September 2018) we rolled out a free update to all customers, which is a bit improvement… Read More
What does it mean: ADA 508 Compliance? The Americans Disability Act 508 compliance can be viewed here: https://www.ada.gov/508/ Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act (29 U.S.C. § 794d) requires that Federal agencies’ electronic and information technology is accessible to people with disabilities, including employees and members of the public. Boiling this down to one word: “Accessibility”… Read More
I thought I’d tell a quick and interesting story about Facebook, the Primary Elections that happened this week in Vermont and Wisconsin (where we have municipal customers who were having primary election) and Donuts 🍩 — and how it’s all related. On the morning of Election Tuesday in August 2018, I made a post to… Read More
A little while back we got several different town clerks who gave us similar feature requests. It was coincidental that three different town clerks asked for something so similar. I hopped on screen sharing session with Karla Hill, Clerk from Town of Lyons to really understand her needs. During the session, she was explaining to… Read More
I am happy to announce that SSL (Secure Socket Layer) is now enabled on sites which are running the TownCMS v5 platform. This means your site is more secure. You also get a preferred ranking on Google for SEO (Search Engine Optimization) versus sites that do not have SSL enabled. When you log into the… Read More
In the last several weeks we have had many people call up or send in support requests saying they were locked out of their website. I wanted to address this issue and give you ways in which we’ve improved it. We want to make it a easy for you to login while still preventing hackers… Read More
Are you on the latest version of TownCMS v5? If so, are you using the new Dashboard at http://dashboard.townweb.com If not, I really suggest checking out the new Dashboard because it was built to “Make the Clerk’s Life Easier”, which is our motto. We custom built the it to make it super duper simple when you… Read More
Last week I asked our Municipal Customers to give us a rating on how we were doing. The results were quite interesting and I am glad that we had several dozen people giving us great and constructive feedback. Overall, the survey results showed that there are several areas to improve in order to have a higher… Read More
Update (November 1, 2017): The survey results are now made available on this blog post here. Check out the feedback we received! https://townweb.com/2017/11/01/survey-results/ I’m getting ready to plan out new big things to develop for our Municipal Web Customers for 2018 but wanted to get a measure for what our customers like or don’t like about… Read More