Dear All,

 

Wordpress has several accessibility plugins; however, we also designed our site on the principles of responsive design (i.e., it resizes based on device, etc.)

 

Thanks!

 

 

James Giese

Wisconsin Board for People with Developmental Disabilities

Director of Communications

608-261-7829

xxxxxx@wisconsin.gov

 

 

 

 

 

From Wisconsin…. 

1.       Who developed your website? An in-house staff person with website design, html coding, website development, and website launch experience.

2.       Who updates your website? The same in-house person.

3.       Where is the site hosted, in house or outsourced? At a local third-party vendor who also supplies some server side admin support. (Approx. $5,000/year includes TA support)

4.       What was the cost to build your site? Approx. 80-100 hours of a FTE for initial build out and launch plus ongoing 5-10 hrs per week of updates and maintenance.

5.       If hosted, what is the cost to host the site? Approx. $5,000 / year. But this vendor also supplies admin and limited development support. As well as hosting several other  sites for us.

6.       What technology was used to develop the site? Wordpress

7.    What would you do differently knowing what you know now?  Even if you have the in-house expertise, I would recommend hiring an outside designer/developer to help build out and add functionality to the site. Also, worthwhile to add some $ for design work.  Wordpress is, IMO, a good CMS for small organizations. It will give us the modular and expansion capability to grow and add functions.  It also has Content Management suitable for small organizations. The site also integrates with our CRM application, called Databank.

 

Our site is wi-bpdd.org  Our Communications Director James Giese could answer more questions at xxxxxx@wisconsin.gov

Just one other note: be sure to incorporate Universal Design features for accessibility.

 

Thanks

Beth