ProudCity makes it easy to add favicons to websites. How to add a favicon to your website: Login to MyProudCity. In the left side admin navbar, select ‘Customize’. Select ‘Site identity.’ Scroll down to the ‘Site icon’ section. Upload your site icon. Should be square and at least 512 pixels x 512 pixels. Select the … Continued
Overview A favicon — short for favorite icon — is an image associated with a website or web page. Favicons are also called: Shortcut icon Website icon Tab icon URL icon Bookmark icon Where favicons display: Browser tabs Search results Bookmarks Desktop icons Browser history Examples In browser tabs: In search results: Why favicons are … Continued
IMPORTANT We have upgraded our icon tool, including: Improved font selector tool More icons (2,000+) As part of this upgrade, because of the new way icon files are named, there is a slight ‘bug’. When editing an icon widget, you will need to update all of the icons in the widget. Otherwise, they … Continued
An HTML table is a structured set of tabular data (rows and columns) displayed on a web page. Similar to spreadsheets, tables allow you to display values that indicate a connection between different types of data. Sample HTML table: It’s important to note that tables should be used sparingly and for tabular data only. We … Continued
In their new book “Good Services: How to design services that work,” former UK Government Design Director Lou Downe offers the public sector an invaluable playbook to delivering government services that are intentional and work for everyone. The foundation of Downe’s book are these 15 principles: Be easy to find Clearly explain its purpose Set … Continued
Overview ProudCity has a number of pre-built page layouts that can easily be inserted into a new or existing web page. The page widgets in each layout can then be customized to suit your specific design and content needs. Video Example layouts Homepage Landing page Connect page Directory page Contact page Events page … Continued
Facebook and Twitter feeds can easily be added to ProudCity-powered government websites. You can see here how we’re using these widgets at proudcity.com: https://proudcity.com/connect There are two ways to add these to your website: Set up a ‘Connect’ page using our prebuilt layout template Manually inserting onto page using the Facebook/Twitter widgets Here’s how to … Continued
A ‘Connect’ page (proudcity.com/connect) is a great opportunity to centralize official ways your community can stay informed with official government information, such as newsletter subscriptions, notifications and social media accounts. Here’s how to set up your ‘Connect’ page on your ProudCity-powered government website using our prebuilt layout. NOTE: If you want to override your existing … Continued
Customizing colors on your ProudCity-powered government website is easy. Here’s how. Step 1 Select ‘Customize’ in the left navigation of the ProudCity Dashboard. Step 2 Select the ‘Colors’ option in the customization tool. Step 3 NOTE: When selecting colors, be sure to account for web accessibility (see Color, web accessibility and government websites). Select color … Continued
Customizing fonts on your ProudCity-powered government website is easy. Here’s how. Step 1 Select ‘Customize’ in the left navigation of the ProudCity Dashboard. Step 2 Select the ‘Fonts’ option in the customization tool. Step 3 Select your default and heading fonts and click the ‘Publish’ button. Visit your website to see the new fonts!
