We’ll be redoing our website. Give us your input!

What do you think is great about the Greater Greater Washington website, and what could be greater? Give us your input on this survey!

Why do we have to make a change at all? A few reasons.

First, Greater Greater Washington runs on code I wrote myself and which has built up more and more complexity over the years. I’m the only one who can maintain it, and that’s not a responsible way to run a larger organization. We should be on a widely-used Content Management System (CMS) that many people can code on.

While we’re moving the site over, it’s a good time to refresh the look. The layout dates to 2009. It was a great design and Joey Katzen did a fantastic job, and we don’t want to change just for the sake of change.

However, it’s been seven years and a lot has changed on the web with things like readability on various devices. And there are a few specific ways the user experience doesn’t work for some groups of readers. I don’t want to go into a lot of detail about what exactly I think most needs to change to avoid biasing your survey responses, but I’ll follow up with more posts after the survey.

I know that many of you think the site shouldn’t change. We don’t want to mess with things that you really like, so part of the survey is a chance to tell us what specific elements you really don’t want to change as well as what you do.

Regular comments will be closed on this post to encourage you to fill out the survey. Thanks!