City of Henderson Website 
Dealing with a lot of information

What does this mean? This time we will refer to the "Departmental Contact Information" page. If this information were to be presented on a single page, it would be a very long page and difficult to find what you are looking for in it. Whether you go to the Departmental Contact Information page and click on a link, or use the menu and select a department there, you will be presented with only the information you are seeking. For more information on how this works see the Things Change.... page.

Another example of how data is structured to make it easier to view and read is the Garbage Collection Schedule. Here all of the streets and days of Henderson are listed. There are in fact more than 300 streets listed over a number of pages. If this were all together in a single page, it would be difficult to read and use. To make this easier, it has been broken into pages of 20 streets at a time sorted alphabetically. At the end of the list, you will see numbers that are underlined. Each of these numbers corresponds to a group of 20 streets. You can see that they progress by street name. It should take you only a couple of clicks to find your street.

One other method of dealing with large documents is to convert them into PDF files and place links to these files on the web for you to view or download to your computer. In the past, things such as press releases and minutes from City Council Meetings were converted into web pages and then the links to these new pages had to be updated. This is a very manual and time consuming process for which there was often not enough time.

Now these documents are converted into PDF files and the database is updated with the file name. Not only is this faster, it helps with ease of finding and retrieving the information.

Another place this system has been implemented is in the Press Releases for the Police Department. These are sorted by date with the most recent date being the first listed. Additionally, these are broken into years with the current year first and then going back to the oldest PR in the system. You can see the years before the listing of press releases. To see press releases for another year, click on that year in the list of years.

New Press Releases will be in PDF format while previous ones are still shown as a web page. When you are done viewing or printing a press release, you can just close the window.