Wokingham District Council has over 145,000 constituents and around 70,000 tax paying households.
The Requirement
The Council needed an Internet website for communication with their constituents and Intranet for their staff. The key requirements were ease of use for information update and the ability to create multiple databases as part of the websites.
Would-be planning applicants can also use a local Building Control database by clicking on a District map to find their appropriate Building Control Surveyor contact details.
External bodies can update information on their parts of the website – e.g. School Governors, Head Teachers. Staff, can login to update school information and communicate with each other.
Visitors can even pay their council tax bills online and join a mailing list to receive the latest information about news and events taking place in the district.
The council use EasySite Multi-styles Plugin Module that allows them to have different look-and-feel in different parts of the website.
Website Statistics
Pages: 5,000 + numerous databases
Users: 1605 (internal, schools, governors)
Website: Wokingham District Council and Making Wokingham Safer
Visitors: 507,000/month/16,000/day
