About our Website
Front Page
Feature Box - this new area of the front page allows us to publicise corporate initiatives and highlight areas of interest.
Welcome Box - allows us to show pictures and places of interest from around the County.
Navigation and Structure
We have changed the design, to coincide with the changing of the seasons. The colour scheme will change quarterly to reflect this and the seasonal image of County Durham on the homepage will change monthly.
We have changed the way users find their way around the website. All of our navigation is on the left of the screen, the main navigator on the home page lists our main website sections, and each section has a sub-navigator with additional links.
New Sections - the site is split into 11 main sections. These are based on the LGNL system supported by central government.
- Advice and Benefits
- Business
- Community and Living
- Council and Democracy
- Education and Learning
- Environment and Planning
- Health and Social Care
- Housing
- Jobs and Careers
- Leisure and Culture
- Transport and Streets
Help and Legal Information - we have also restructured our Help section and introduced a Legal Information section to make information easier to find.
Navigation - we have moved information links that were to the right of the screen, onto the left, and added second level navigation bars.
We have maintained the clickable breadcrumb trail, which appears at the top of every web page. The breadcrumb indicates the location of an individual page within the website structure.
