Pricey Redisign
Thursday, November 5, 2009
By Tessa Leone
The Iowa Sex Offenders website, iowasexoffenders.com, went under a 250,000 construction process to add to the efficiency of the site. Grants funded the pricey redesign.
You can now not only view convicted sex offenders and where they live in regards to your home, but you can also join blogs, receive email notifications and view online prevention plans targeted at parents.
Website users can create a name and password and log into the registry. It's much more interactive and informative and aims at equipping parents with the necessary information to keep their children safe from sexual harassment or molestation.
Interaction seems to be the conman thread of evolving media and technology. In the past this media was strictly a one way spectrum of news, providing readers with warnings and potential dangers withing their communities. Now the readers can respond and share concerns of their own. The readers are becoming the reporters.
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3 comments:
$250,000 is a lot of money for a web site and feeling safe in your home. This number doesn't surprise me after my experience with my internship this summer. After shopping for prices from a handful of web designers we settled on a local company who could also handle a few other media needs. For a small business I was shocked at the prices for a basic layout and the extra costs for interaction by viewers.
Chris Mars
Although it may seem like a lot of money I think the sex offender registry is something that is very important to the public. With the site be more compatible and current the public has a better chance of staying aware and that is the site's main purpose.
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