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How to use Council’s websites

The Corporate Websites and Intranets Redevelopment Project has seen Council completely redesign and rebuild Council’s Corporate Website, including brand new websites for the Drum Theatre and Youth Services. Together these websites act as Council’s digital front door.

For residents this means improved access to information, services and consultations. Some highlights of the new corporate website include: 

  • a help bot
  • dedicated pages for Council Works and Projects, Recreation areas and venues and Community Consultations
  • the ability to use google translate across website pages
  • all the websites are also accessible on all devices so residents can access Council information wherever they are, at any time.    

Below are some explanations of some of the new functionality found in the websites.

We are excited for our community to visit and use our new digital front door and join us in moving towards a smarter, more digitally enabled future.

How to use Council’s websites

New locations

All of our websites have been moved to a government domain which means our new website address all end in vic.gov.au

We have redirections on but it’s best to save our new addresses to your bookmarks so you can always find us easily.

Corporate website - greaterdandenong.vic.gov.au
Drum theatre website – drum.greaterdandenong.vic.gov.au
Youth Services website - youth.greaterdandenong.vic.gov.au
Jobs website - jobs.greaterdandenong.vic.gov.au 


Features and functions

There are a range of features and functions within the websites that display, sort and connect information together to make it easier for users to use the websites. Below is a slideshow of images that show an example of each feature or function (look for the purple rectangle). Below the slideshow are the descriptions and instructions that outline each feature or function. 

  • Search bar on Corporate Site
    Search bar on Corporate Site
  • Hamburger Menu open on Corporate Site
    Hamburger Menu open on Corporate Site
  • 'I want to' icons - all 24 icons open on home page of  Corporate Site
    'I want to' icons - all 24 icons open on home page of Corporate Site
  • 'I want to' Menu  open on Corporate Site
    'I want to' Menu open on Corporate Site
  • Square tiles on Youth Services home page
    Square tiles on Youth Services home page
  • Side menu on Corporate Site
    Side menu on Corporate Site
  • Google Translate menu open to select language
    Google Translate menu open to select language
  • Have your Say, News and Discover your Area boxes on Corporate Site home page
    Have your Say, News and Discover your Area boxes on Corporate Site home page
  • Events block on Corporate site home page
    Events block on Corporate site home page
  • Help bot open on Corporate Site home page
    Help bot open on Corporate Site home page
  • Related Pages on Corporate site
    Related Pages on Corporate site
  • Google maps section on Corporate site
    Google maps section on Corporate site
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Navigation options

These sites have been designed to offer several different ways to navigate to the information you are looking for.

The search bar

The search bar works by typing in key words which describe what you are looking for into the search bar - just like google. You can access the search bar from the header bar at the top of the website when you are on any page.

Hamburger menu

The hamburger menu icon opens a traditional menu for each website where you will find the sections of the website and their sub sections.

You can access the icon from the header bar at the top right of the website when you are on any page

‘I want to’ icons (Corporate website) or square tiles (Youth and Drum)

This is a collection of pages that are most accessed. For the corporate site, the icons start with 12 options and clicking on the ‘view more services’ gives you 12 more to choose from.

The ‘I want to’ icons also follow you around the corporate site. You can access these from the header bar at the top right of the website when you are on any page.

Side menus

We have included traditional side menus on every internal page on every site to help you find your away around. These menus are on the left hand side of almost every page in every website.