Sarasota Police Department
Website Design & DevelopmentA responsive website project with a community news workflow, developed with Ringling College’s Collaboratory and the Sarasota Police Department.
Design public information for the people who need it—and the team updating it.
Information that needs to reach people
For a police department, publishing a news update is part of communicating with the community. The Sarasota project brought Commit together with Ringling College’s Collaboratory, students, and deputies to develop a responsive website direction with that responsibility in view.
Connecting the public page to the publishing task
We developed the initial homepage work into broader workflows and page designs. Breaking news became a central part of the experience, supported by a news ticker and custom back-end work for mobile content editing. The person adding an update mattered alongside the person reading it.
Designing both sides of the exchange
The project shows why a website’s usefulness depends on more than its visible pages. A clear public experience needs a practical way to keep information moving behind it. Bringing those two sides together shaped the documented work and its approach to community communication.
Build the publishing workflow into your next website.
Tell us what you’re offering, who you need to reach, and what you want people to do next. We’ll start there.