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Website: City of Elk River Economic Development I http://econdev.elkrivermn.gov Economic Gateway Developments for your Website As you know, we always strive to make our product better for you and the people that will be visiting your website! We endeavor to be ahead of our competition and with this goal in mind we continue making improvements and upgrades to our system. The biggest changes that were implemented the last quarter in 2016 are: • List Template: A new template pulling from the List Maker module was created to create an interactive display of list information. Information is displayed by title with expand/collapse functionality to allow the user to access more details. Content can be sorted into categories and filtered by sections to allow pages of isolated information. • Accessibility Improvements: Multiple changes were implemented on the front and back -end to allow better accessibility in sites (for improved 508 compliance). In the admin the addition of the Accessibility Checker in CKeditor allows admins to see possible accessibility issues flagged and suggests solutions. On the front-end ALT tags (to better support users on screen readers) have filled in the blanks on standardized image content in News, Projects, and Staff module templates. • Safe -Deleting Improvement: Some clients have been encountered issues when using the safe deleting functionality of their site, as the page name of the deleted page is not freed up until a GateKeeper representative verifies the deletion. We have modified the safe -deletion to immediately free up the name of deleted pages (without requiring GateKeeper verification) so that admins making a second attempt at creating a page are able to recycle the page name. • CKEditor Styling Improvements: The Styles menu in CKEditor has been updated to remove outdated techniques of applying styles. New styling techniques and - in some cases - new style options have been added to the Styles menu. In addition, styles can now be more easily identified in CKEditor's Preview mode as - in many cases - a simplified style is applied to the preview to give a sense of how the styled content will look in relation to other content. The above are just the most relevant pieces we have been working on and 2017 proves to be another big year of website advancement for Golden Shovel Agency and our clients. Our development team has big plans for this year and will continue working on more and bigger improvements for the Economic Gateway platform, and we will keep you posted on the progress and let you know when they go live! Expert Webinars Last year we had the opportunity to host and present an excellent webinar series, with support from many experts from the economic development industry. We've made a commitment to stay on top of economic development trends and technologies and we take this seriously, so we can guarantee you this year is no Golden Shovel Agency Groundbreaking Economic Development Communications Page 1