Sarasota County government has launched a significant renovation of its website, that makes it more responsive to reflexive design and mobile devices. The result is a more modern, functional and visually attractive site designed to meet citizens in all the places they gather information, whether at home, in the office or on the phone. In keeping with the county's emphasis on customer service, the revamped site features a more user-friendly layout aimed at helping citizens find the information they seek quickly and efficiently. The search bar, the most heavily-used feature on the site, is now larger and placed front and center in the new design. Decisions about the site's content and navigation were guided by customer feedback and analytics, which found that of approximately 2,000 different pages on the previous scgov.net, 80 percent of the site's traffic was directed to just 44 of them. The site's new design adapts to smartphones, laptops and tablets, keeping content centered in the viewing area. It also considers the performance of the user's device, the size of files and how fast they load on different speed networks.

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