Brazilian Parliament Releases New Website Using Plone

The House of Representatives has lauched, in February, its new internet-intranet website. The changes make it easier and faster to use, both for the staff and the population. The new site has been developed using the opensource content management system Plone.

One of the most important goals of the internet changes is to make the information more visible and easy to get. The idea is to deliver the information the user needs, without demanding the knowledge of the internal structure of the House.

The information is inserted in the website by the House offices, under the supervision of an Information Council. This Council is made of specialists from the Communication Office, General Administration, the Library and the Computer Information Center. The Comitee developed and works under a series of rules and criteria to evaluate and keep the high quality standards, which were set from the beginning of this project. These specialists developed, also, various web writing and web editing courses. Those were applied to the employees that work on the information feeding.

The most perceptive changes are visual. The main menu is more intuitive, elegant, and gives room to the four house communication organs: TV, Radio, Newspaper and Newscenter (Media Agency). The more requested searches are also at the homepage, to make the access easier and avoid lots of clicks to get to the info.

You can access the site here

Posted by david.thornton on 2005-05-16 19:08