Monday, April 1, 2013
Fair Lawn's new website went live Sunday. How do you think it looks?
Say hello to the borough website we've all been waiting for. The new www.fairlawn.org went live Sunday, replacing the drab, informationally-barren website we've grown accustomed to navigating over the past six months while the new site has been under construction. The new site's functionality mirrors the borough's site prior to its September shutdown, but its content is supposed to be more relevant for residents. Borough offiicials would like the site — which many residents report never having even visited — to become a more informative and highly-trafficked town resource. So what do you think? Fair Lawn is encouraging residents, business owners and even out-of-towners to explore the site and provide feedback. Anyone with comments, …
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Fair Lawn is contracting with QScend Technologies to design, build and host a more engaging and, eventually, interactive borough website.
Borough officials expect a full makeover of Fair Lawn's drab temporary website to be finished by late January. The temporary site, a colorless and informationally-barren shell of its former self, has been in place since September when the town's former web host unexpectedly closed up shop and took Fair Lawn's website and email system down with it. In late October, council approved the borough manager's recommendation to move forward with constructing a new-and-improved website, contracting with e-government provider QScend Technologies for about $30,000 to design, build and host the borough's new site. Fair Lawn will pay about $4,000 annually for website maintenance and 24-hour support, but its steeper initial costs will be covered by …
Saturday, September 22, 2012
After the company that had been subcontracted to provide the borough's web hosting went out of business, Fair Lawn has signed on for hosting from Go Big Studios in Hawthorne.
The Fair Lawn borough website is on the mend with a new web host after the subcontractor tasked with hosting the site unexpectedly went out of business earlier this week; but the recovery phase could take a while. For now, the borough has decided to move forward with a shell of its former website, focusing on restoring the homepage with the information it feels is most vital and worrying about the site's look and its internal pages later. Borough manager Tom Metzler said this week's website failure is likely to expedite the town's recently-discussed plans to move ahead with a complete website makeover. "There are capital funds available to us to do that so I’m going to make a recommendation to council that we just go ahead and do the …
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Fair Lawn's website and email service has been down since Tuesday afternoon and the borough has yet to hear from its service provider with an explanation or solution.
Fair Lawn's website and email system have been down for almost two days without any word from the borough's web host as to the nature of the problem or when it will be fixed, assistant borough manager Jim Van Kruiningen said Thursday morning. "It's never been down this long," said Van Kruiningen, who estimated that the downtime began mid-afternoon Tuesday. The webmaster has tried multiple times to call the borough's web host, MJR Solutions, but has reached only an answering machine, Van Kruiningen said. Messages left on the company's answering machine have not been returned. Without a direct line to the company, webmaster Ron Lottermann electronically submitted a support ticket through the host's website Thursday morning, and is awaiting a…
Thursday, September 6, 2012
The borough is looking to upgrade its website, www.fairlawn.org, to provide residents a more interactive, user-friendly experience.
It wasn't all that long ago that just having a clean, navigable municipal government website packed with pertinent information on meetings, minutes, events, audits and contact lists was a novel concept. Nowadays, with users also expecting convenient and interactive design capabilities, a pretty, information-loaded website is no longer enough. As part of its five-year IT upgrade and transformation plan, Fair Lawn is considering making website interactivity improvements that would enable users to conduct municipal business online without ever having to leave the comfort of their homes. "We’re looking into and are currently getting price quotes on a major overhaul of our website," borough manager Tom Metzler said Tuesday, "effectively making …
Zak Koeske
7:14 pm on Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Spoke with the point person for Fair Lawn's new borough website today about what sort of feedback he's received from residents so far. He said the two major issues have been the calendar (it's confusing and looks like it's not actually populated with any events) and the somewhat convoluted process of finding agendas and meeting minutes. Turns out the calendar actually is populated with events, … more ›