Long-awaited Ocoee website overhaul goes live

OCOEE -- The city of Ocoee unveiled its new website March 2, nearly two years after entering an agreement with Icon Enterprises and CivicPlus on April 16, 2013, to develop a new website.

"The new website is certainly an improvement from the old one, as it should," said Martha Lopez-Anderson, chairwoman for the Child Protection Services Committee. "However, in my opinion it is extremely busy and has one too many navigation menus."

Within the contract agreement, city of Ocoee officials had the ability to cancel the agreement before the new site went live and receive a refund if they did not deem it a fully functional government site.

According to the agreement, CivicPlus staff, based in Manhattan, Kansas, has earned $30,501 for first-year annual support, maintenance and hosting. Each year beyond, CivicPlus annual support, maintenance and hosting costs Ocoee $5,430, subject to annual 5% increases in year three and thereafter.

The site is a huge improvement, but the amount of time and money spent is questionable, Lopez-Anderson said.

Services for this redesign include: the new design, a redeveloped banner, redeveloped navigation methods, a design setup, redeveloped graphic elements of the site, project management, testing, review, content migration, retouching of styles and page layouts and checking for spelling and broken links.

Contact Zak Kerr at [email protected].