{"id":3438,"date":"2013-03-06T09:47:18","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T09:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pencaitland.org\/?p=3438"},"modified":"2019-05-19T08:47:45","modified_gmt":"2019-05-19T07:47:45","slug":"east-lothian-council-bags-four-stars-for-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/east-lothian-council-bags-four-stars-for-website\/","title":{"rendered":"East Lothian Council bags four stars for website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>East Lothian Council\u2019s website has been rated as \u2018four star\u2019 in an independent survey of 433 local authority web services.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The website was among thirty-seven to achieve the top four star rating with 140 receiving three star status.<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_3440\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3440\" style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eastlothian.gov.uk\/forms\/form\/191\/website_survey\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pencaitland.org\/files\/2013\/03\/elc-website-320px.jpg\" alt=\"East Lothian Council bags a top 4 stars for its website. Do you agree? Tell ELC what you think.\" width=\"320\" height=\"250\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/files\/2013\/03\/elc-website-320px.jpg 320w, https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/files\/2013\/03\/elc-website-320px-300x234.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3440\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">East Lothian Council bags a top 4 stars for its website. Do you agree? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eastlothian.gov.uk\/forms\/form\/191\/website_survey\"><B>Tell ELC<\/B> <\/a> what you think.<\/figcaption><\/figure>The survey, called Better connected 2013, was organised by Socitm Insight &#8211; a membership association for all ICT professionals working in Local Authorities and the Public Sector. It identifies good practice in the development of local authority websites based on extensive evidence-based research. <\/p>\n<p>A reviewer comment on the East Lothian Council website said: &#8220;Overall, a very good site, which provided answers to our questions. The search seems pretty good and well organised. I am impressed by how easily I found things and the simplicity of the layout.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is the 15th annual survey of all 433 local authority websites and a team of reviewers carried out a structured survey with 224 questions for local authority websites, followed by four shorter surveys on specific topics. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Do you use the East Lothian Council website? Good or bad the Council wants to know what you think and you can take part in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eastlothian.gov.uk\/forms\/form\/191\/website_survey\" title=\"Website Survey\">short survey<\/a> to help improve it for the future. Alternatively, just leave a comment below.<\/strong><P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>East Lothian Council\u2019s website has been rated as \u2018four star\u2019 in an independent survey of 433 local authority web services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":218,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[610,148,455],"class_list":["post-3438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-award","tag-east-lothian-council","tag-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4987,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438\/revisions\/4987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}