Engines of Creation is pleased to announce the launch of the City of Amsterdam, New York’s new website Amsterdamny.gov. Engines of Creation Web Design & Development was chosen by the City of Amsterdam municipality to design & develop the cities first official web presence online.
Amsterdamny.gov was designed first and foremost as a resource for Amsterdam’s three major audiences: current residents, visitors and businesses, both current and prospective. The website has a clean, striking and modern appearance designed to appeal to broad range of audiences and demographics. The navigation is arranged in an easy and intuitive fashion with the main website categories “Residents”, “Visitors”, “Businesses” and “Government” arranged to be the main focal point.
If content is king on the web than that holds doubly true for amsterdamny.gov as we took great strides to enable site visitors to be able to find everything from forms and permits, to taxes and information on how to contact local government officials quickly and easily.
The website also features powerful syndication tools like a custom WordPress blog instillation to push Amsterdam news and press information. This fantastic resource allows for users to subscribe to the Amsterdam.gov news and press blog via RSS feeds and keep up to date with the latest city news and press without having to visit the website again and again.
Another formidable syndication tool is the City of Amsterdam’s new online events calendar, powered by a sleek content management system allowing the city of Amsterdam staff to easily update and maintain citywide events. Like the WordPress blog, site visitors can also subscribe to the events calendar to ensure that they don’t miss out on any of the cities many happenings via its RSS feeds.
For those looking to see a snapshot of Amsterdam’s past and present we have added a sleek photo slideshow system, that allows users to browse several online photo galleries with professional imagery from local photographers and a collection of historic photos from the Walter Elwood Museum and other fabulous sources.
Creating Amsterdamny.gov was a very exciting project for everyone at Engines of Creation, as it gave us an opportunity to do what we love and create the first online presence for the city we were born and raised in at the same time. It was a wonderful experience working hand in hand with local photographers, government officials, Mayor Ann Thane and her staff to design and develop this feature ridden web site. If you haven’t visited the website yet we encourage you to visit amsterdamny.gov and see what Amsterdam, NY has to offer!
