Seaside's website used to suck. Small fonts, pages that wouldn't scroll, agendas that required cryptic passwords, documents buried under weird scripts...it was enough to drive users to City Hall.
But at long last, the city with the seahorse logo has unveiled a new website, featuring a slideshow of pretty pictures on the home page, readable fonts and user-friendly tabs leading to various city departments. Public meetings, agendas and minutes, city projects and requests for bids are all easy to access. A community events calendar tracks meeting dates and city-sponsored shindigs.
The new site doesn't offer live webcasts and video archives of meetings, a feature that makes Carmel-by-the-Sea's website especially public-friendly. And users can't expect meeting minutes to be posted in a hurry—as of April 24, the most recent Seaside City Council minutes are from March 19.
But the new www.ci.seaside.ca.us is a huge improvement over the old website, and more consistent with Seaside's marketing as a city on the ups.
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