Fellow Citizens:

I come before you to provide an update concerning my administration's plans to make over the Titulia home page and increase the viability of the Titulia City map.

I have been corresponding with Admin concerning the makeover plans we outlined during the campaign. In their most recent correspondence with me on the matter, they have provided some new information concerning their own plans for the site, and how that impacts our makeover plans. I share their most recent correspondence in its entirety below:

Admin

To: William D. Money  ;

Subject: Re: the home page makeover

Date: May 10, 2010 - 07:30

Message text: Dear Bill, As many people correctly pointed out, the current Tutulia home page is not very professional in terms of technology, appearance and flexibility. After careful consideration we have decided to gradually replace the entire technology stack with a new design based on a better technical platform. Although this decision will have a detrimental effect on our speed of implementation of various current requests on the short term, it will bring great benefits on the long term. Therefore, we do not want to invest any significant amount of work into the improvement of the current home page, as it would be a waste of time and would only delay the real effort that will make the Titulia website much better in the future. We will make the transition to the new site a gradual process. First, some new features will be implemented there, then gradually all old functionality will be moved there. At some point in this process, the home page itself will be replaced with a brand new and much more flexible one. (Where, for example, users themselves can control what content blocks they see or don't see on the front page.) In this context, we would like to ask you to be patient, and rethink your requests in terms of priorities. We will consider changes that we think has to do with substance, but we would not like to put work into cosmetic changes on a page that is about to be completely replaced anyway. The entire process will take months, but the first benefits will be out soon.

I have advised Admin that we will reexamine our makeover plans in the context of this new information. Once we have done that, I will report our findings to Admin, and to the republic.

As far as our plans for increasing the viability of the Titulia City map, Titulia City Planner Codex currently has a proposition before the republic which originated from the Planning Commission forum. There will be additional planning propositions introduced in the coming days. I encourage anyone with ideas for increasing the viability of Titulia City to post them in the Planning Commission forum in the Titulia Government Building at the following link:

http://tituliagovernmentbuilding.weebly.com/government-forum.html

Thank you for your time.

For the republic,
William D. Money