Glendale’s mobile website gets a new, improved look

The city has upgraded the mobile version of its website, which now features a series of quick links to some of its most-frequently visited pages.

Released last month, the new mobile site replaces a clunky predecessor that made it tough to navigate on a smartphone or tablet, said city spokesman Tom Lorenz.

Now, by visiting the site on a mobile device, users are greeted with 16 buttons that lead to pages with agendas, news, emergency notifications as well as permits and services.

“We were able to create a platform [that], when viewed on a mobile device, was very simple and direct,” Lorenz said. “We tried to put [the links] in such an order that we believed was of most importance to our citizens.”

One of the links leads to a page where people can pay their parking tickets.

“Click on that and it’ll take you right to the page where you can pay right on your phone,” Lorenz said. “You don’t have to go to your office or make a phone call.”

Upgrading the mobile site was an alternative to creating an independent app, which would have been a more expensive project, he said.

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Arin Mikailian, arin.mikailian@latimes.com

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