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No matter what you speak, we have got you covered. We recently changed from the previous translation service to Google Translate. It not only reduces our costs to $0; it provides numerous languages where as the previous was Spanish translation only . While we all know automated translations are not as ideal as bilingual humans, our bilingual humans did say that the Google service was a better automated translation.


In addition to new languages, we have a few more interesting updates:

• Landing page navigation links stay highlighted in blue when you are within a certain area (City Services, Arts & Parks, etc). We hope this helps user orientation within the site.
• Home page rotating headline images slowed to 8s allowing users time to read the subheading and see the image. The subheadings were enlarged and the hyperlink expanded for the rotating headline images as well as the large headline images on landing pages.
• Employment section has been simplified and all types of positions appear on one page. (Next addition to employment is making it an RSS feed for users and communication via twitter and fb)
• Our AddThis icons at the top of content pages that enable sharing via fb, twitter, email, print, etc have been updated. It also contains a count so you can see how many times the page was shared.
• We launched a Website Survey which appears on the right side of all the pages. The survey is fairly in-depth, but it allows us to get some information from users as we plan our next usability tests.

If you or someone you know might be interested in participating in one of our future usability tests, just fill out our participant form to get on our list.