From 2005 to 2010 I maintained Technical Services’ pages on the council’s Website. Many of the pages that I created/maintained needed to convey complicated, technical information to the reader in a concise and understandable way which was a challenge at times (like this example on food hygiene inspections).

Occasionally I was able to stretch my creative side on something more aesthetically pleasing like this scenic driving route page .

Because the content management system the council used was quite old, I had to use external resources at times to compensate for a lack of functionality. A good example of this was having to use Google maps to show the route for the scenic driving page and having to use Panaramio to show photographs of the views someone would expect to see when making the trip (and where they were taken). Our GIS was never good enough to do this.

As a Web publisher for the council I was part of a small team of people who were responsible for the council being given the Plain English Campaign Web Award in 2005. I hope that the standard of the council’s Website and the content don’t suffer when the coming local government cut-backs start to take effect.