Create a website essexinfo.net

essexinfo.net Enables community & voluntary groups and parish & town councils to create their own websites Developed from ENCORE national project, funded by ODPM Supported by Essex Online Partnership: Essex District and Borough Councils Essex County Council Essex County Fire and Rescue Service Essex Police Essex Strategic Health Authority One stream of ENCORE project developed e-community publish which Essex have implemented as essexinfo.net Supported by Essex Online Partnership, implemented on Essex Online portal

What do you get? A free website that is: simple to create flexible to develop easy to grow At www.essexinfo.net Simple to create – simple web site from information on application form Flexible to develop – can add a variety of extra features Easy to grow – can add new pages

Organisations can easily create: home page – register, complete simple application form events information, job adverts, discussion groups, photo album etc select from a tick list new pages of content Home page created from the information in your application form Events jobs discussions and surveys can be made available by ticking a box A photo album can display pictures or photos You can add more pages to create your own features

Support from support@essexinfo.net What help do you get? Support from support@essexinfo.net Online help – FAQs, help sheets, sample sites, writing for the web Training and advice EALC, Essex libraries Details added to LIFE *Essex Association of Local Councils Support team can be contacted if you have any problems when you start working on your site Training and advice – essexinfo.net is a community resource for community and voluntary groups and parish and town councils. Essex libraries can provide access to a computer and the internet if the organisation does not have the equipment. They can assist with setting up an email account. Can also provide help and when applying for a site, starting its development and providing advice if people have problems, another option for support. EALC will provide similar help for parishes LIFE – directory of community groups in Essex of about 8,000 records

Instant website created from your application form Notice have a choice of colours First screen shot shows a simple website created from the application form. Shows two pages on the menu: Home About us The third item is Listen, which is for visually impaired people as when activated it reads the page Second screen shot has more menu items. The have activated the events service and added pages for minutes and agendas Tip – keep titles of menu short or they wrap round and do not look as clean Add events, jobs, discussions etc in just a few clicks

Add photos and logos Design your own pages Examples of what can be achieved Buttsbury Art Society – created exhibition pages for their paintings using the photo album. They’ve also added their logo to the title bar Shalford PC – have added their logo and created an interesting home page with photos and information about Shalford. They have also created a number of interesting pages on their menu including a diary, information about local organisations, parish council pages and a link to Shalford News the free village magazine Design your own pages

Project links National ENCORE Kingston and Surrey, Local e-Publish Regional Parish Council Involve - East of England Regional Assembly (EERA) ECC Making the Links

Project links - national ENCORE e-Community Publish tool, implemented as essexinfo.net Enhancement Kingston and Surrey funded from Local DirectGov, called Local e-Publish Implementation once testing is completed Enhanced functionality, templates, improved accessibility/usability and help Essex: - highlighted links between ODPM projects - experience strongly influenced enhanced version

Local e-Publish

New template

Project links – regional Parish Council Involve - East of England Regional Assembly (EERA) project funded by ODPM Aim - increase number of East of England region parish & town council websites Implementation of Local e-Publish Essex: - members of steering group - advised on training development

Project links – ECC Making the Links – partnership with parish & town councils and EALC. Improve ways of working together Based on recommendations from parish council information audit by Jane Jennings Taken forward by Ian Hatton Planning and Environment Core Team Co-ordination of related projects including essexinfo.net

essexinfo.net on the EssexOnline Portal Find out more essexinfo.net on the EssexOnline Portal www.essexonline.gov.uk or join at www.essexinfo.net Contacts: Support team support@essexinfo.net Tel: 01245 436559 Essex Libraries: Tel: 01245 438430 EALC info@ealc.gov.uk Tel: 01371 879722 Making the Links: Intranet Contact details