Corunna, Indiana has about 240 residents, a town council, a water and sewer utility, and a Clerk-Treasurer who answers the phone. We rebuilt its website so residents find what they need in one tap, and the town posts its own news without calling anyone.
The old site loaded fifteen font families on every visit. On a phone with one bar of signal out in the county, that is the difference between a page that opens and one that doesn't.
| Measure | Old site | New site |
|---|---|---|
| Home page size | 102 KB | 25 KB |
| Font families | 15 | 2 |
| Public pages | 7 | 9 |
| Old links kept working | n/a | All 15 |
The online bill pay link sits in the top bar of every page and on the home page, so no resident has to hunt for it.
The Livestream link goes straight to the town's YouTube channel, and the Resident Guide lists when the council meets.
Town staff sign in with a password and a code sent to their email, then add events and announcements right on the page. Past events drop off on their own.
Fourteen town ordinances as PDFs on one page, plus plain-English summaries of the rules residents ask about most on the Resident Guide.
A History page built around a 1917 Sanborn fire insurance map from the Library of Congress, with every photo credited to its source.
The contact form sends straight to the Clerk-Treasurer's inbox, and everything the town posts is backed up every night.
The old site used addresses like /blog and a misspelled /annoucements, and Google still sends people to them. Every old address now redirects to its new page, so a bookmark or a search result from last year still lands somewhere real.
Every page carries the tags search engines read, a sitemap lists all nine, and the preview copy used during the build stays hidden so it never competes with the real site. The town kept its own domain the whole way through.
Tell us about it. We build your new site first, and nothing is due until you approve it.
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