Town looking for local photos
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- Published on Friday, May 20, 2016
By Kira Paterson
Neepawa Banner/Neepawa Press
The Neepawa municipal website is undergoing a major overhaul and the renovators need the community’s help.
At the May 3 council meeting, the Neepawa town council announced its plans to create an updated version of the site with the help of a website development company from Saskatchewan called Instightrix.
Neepawa’s economic development officer, Marilyn Crewe, said that they have had a lot of complaints about the old website from local residents. “We’ve heard throughout the community that our website needs to be updated. It loads really slowly, it’s not mobile device friendly and so we’re going to do an entire revamp,” Crewe explained. “It’s going to have an entire new look, plus we’re going through and doing an audit of all our current content to make sure that it’s all still relevant and necessary so that we can make a website that is exactly what the people of Neepawa need it to be.”
The Town also wanted to get community members involved in the process and is giving everyone a chance to make their mark on the new site. They are asking that people send in pictures to use on the website. “We know that we have talented photographers in the community... So we’re looking for recent [photos] – so we’re saying anything within the last two years – and all seasons, showcasing all the highlights of Neepawa,” Crewe explained. “Location focused, people focused, event focused, so that we have an assortment of photos to use.”
They considered hiring a photographer to go and take some pictures all in one day, but Crewe said, “It would be great to get all the different perspectives.”
Photos must be a high resolution and photographers must be willing to give up ownership of the pictures to become property of the Town of Neepawa. “We would certainly give credit to the photographer,” Crewe added, saying that there will be a place on the website listing the photographers of the pictures they use.
Anyone interested in submitting photos for use on the website can call Crewe at the town office, 204-476-7607. She will give them more details and answer any questions they have about it.
The exact plans are not finalized yet, as the Town has just started working with the development company. The new website is scheduled to be up and running by the end of the year. Until then, the old website can still be found at neepawa.ca. Once the new site is finished, it will take over that address.
