The city’s website is partying like it’s not 1999.
The City of Hollister is doing a major overhaul to its website, which hadn’t been reworked for 15 or 16 years, said City Manager Bill Avera, who designed the city’s prior website structure.
Hollister’s top information technology official Paul DiSilva has been working on it since the first part of December, Avera said.
Avera said the company that originally hosted the city’s website went out of business, spurring the redesign, but city officials also knew the site was “antiquated,” Avera said.
“My goal, and I think Paul’s goal more than anybody else’s, was to make sure the new site was user friendly regardless of device,” Avera said.
Avera said Hollister modeled its design after other cities’ websites.
The city manager said the work was all in house.
“Paul managed to do it in between all the other things he’s been working on,” said Avera, who expects the website to evolve in the near and long term.
