Youth and Community Service at Lancashire County Council selects Jadu Galaxies

Lancashire County Council's youth and community service has selected Jadu Galaxies to power its new 'What Now' website for Youth and Community Services.

The service has decided to replace the existing websites to increase functionality and make it more relevant to its youth audience. Jadu Galaxies enables the Council to rapidly implement feature-rich microsites that comply fully with Government technical requirements, such as latest IPSV (Integrated Public Sector Vocabulary) taxonomy and WAI (Web Access Initiative) standards.

The savings made in web development costs mean that the service can reinvest resources into community-based projects.

Janet Wilkinson, eGovernment Officer for the Directorate for Children and Young people at Lancashire County Council, is impressed with the simplicity, yet powerful functionality, of Jadu Galaxies: "We have been able to radically reduce our costs because 80 per cent of what we want is off-the-shelf - all we have to do is populate the website."Janet continued to say:

"The number one benefit is that I don't have to ask whether it meets Government compliance requirements - I know it does," adds Janet. "This frees up our webmaster and editor resources to concentrate on collating content. We don't have to worry about anything else."

The websites expect to go live in Autumn 2006, with two further areas for Jadu Galaxies currently being assessed within Youth and Community Services.

Jadu Galaxies is an entirely new approach to creating a Content Management System (CMS), enabling webmasters and officers to design, build and manage multiple websites through a single interface. The new solution harnesses Jadu's rich functionality and proven CMS technologies and is ideal for both full corporate websites and microsites.

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