Municipal content types
Create notices, meetings, agendas, minutes, departments, services, officials, forms, and documents through guided fields.
WIP Municipal
A municipal website your residents—and your staff—can actually use.
WIP Municipal combines resident-centered design with a CMS built specifically for municipalities and non-technical users. Public information becomes easier to find, update, govern, and keep accessible.
Resident centeredServices and answers are easier to find
Staff friendlyDesigned for non-technical users
Accessible by designWCAG-aware structure and workflow
Supported locallyBacked by Net2 Services
The WIP Municipal CMS
Built around municipal work—not generic website terminology.
Staff should not need to understand page builders or web design to keep residents informed. The WIP Municipal CMS presents structured, familiar tasks and protects the parts of the site that should remain consistent.
A major operational benefit
The CMS reduces dependence on one technical employee, makes routine publishing easier to distribute across departments, and helps new staff learn the system faster.
Role-based editing
Give staff access appropriate to their department and responsibilities while protecting shared navigation and design.
Consistent publishing
Templates turn staff entries into consistently structured pages without asking editors to format layouts manually.
Plain-language guidance
Contextual help, checklists, and short lessons explain what to enter and how to publish responsibly.
Safer content lifecycle
Review dates, ownership, status, and archival practices can help prevent outdated public information from accumulating.
Designed for the people doing the work
Useful across the whole organization.
The CMS supports distributed publishing without forcing every contributor to become a website specialist.
Clerks and administrators
Publish notices, agendas, minutes, elections information, forms, and public records.
Department staff
Keep services, contacts, schedules, programs, and departmental updates current.
Public safety teams
Post alerts, preparedness information, contacts, and time-sensitive public guidance.
Parks and community services
Manage facilities, programs, events, reservations, and seasonal announcements.
Leadership
Maintain officials, boards, priorities, reports, and transparent public information.
New or occasional editors
Complete common tasks through familiar prompts and repeatable publishing steps.
Accessibility as an operating practice
Accessible templates are the beginning—not the finish line.
WIP Municipal targets WCAG 2.1 Level AA through design, development, testing, training, and ongoing review. Because staff-created content and documents can affect accessibility after launch, the CMS and learning center reinforce good publishing habits.
Accessible components
Navigation, headings, forms, focus states, contrast, reflow, and interactive elements are built and tested intentionally.
Editor safeguards
Structured fields reduce opportunities to introduce inconsistent layouts or inaccessible patterns.
Content training
Staff learn alternative text, meaningful links, headings, tables, captions, and document responsibilities.
Manual and automated review
Testing combines scanning tools with representative keyboard, zoom, form, navigation, and content checks.
Document guidance
Agendas, minutes, reports, and downloadable files receive dedicated publishing guidance and defined responsibility.
Ongoing care
Periodic review and support help the municipality address new content and changing needs after launch.
Scoped responsibly
A municipal package shaped around actual requirements.
Content volume, document remediation, integrations, accessibility work, staff roles, training, and support are assessed before a fixed proposal is prepared.
Defined togetherBuild, migration, training, hosting, and care are separated clearly.
- Discovery and content inventory
- Municipal CMS configuration
- Accessibility design and testing
- Staff training and documentation
- Managed hosting and support
A controlled municipal rollout
From content inventory to trained staff.
Assess
Inventory audiences, services, departments, documents, systems, governance, and accessibility needs.
Structure and configure
Design the resident experience and configure municipal content types, roles, and workflows.
Migrate and test
Move approved content, remediate defined materials, and perform functional and accessibility testing.
Train and support
Train staff by role, launch deliberately, and continue with managed hosting and review.
Make the municipal website easier to use on both sides of the screen.
Let’s discuss the resident experience, the staff publishing experience, and the requirements that will define a responsible first scope.
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