Choosing New Fonts for Lighthouse

By GIC on September 19th, 2024

One of the GIC’s main goals is to put accessibility at the forefront of our process. We always want to keep in mind those with visual, hearing and other disabilities as we make each website design decision. This approach calls for reconsideration of colors, backgrounds, and the text itself that we use. Many different fonts […]

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End of Summer Dev Updates

By GIC on September 06th, 2024

Hello again! The GIC team is engaged in an important internal debate, agonizing over a hotly-contested issue: Is it actually summer until September 22 as the calendar says, or do Labor Day and the start of school mark the real beginning of fall? Our team is split into devoted camps of those who are still […]

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Mid-August Lighthouse Dev Updates

By GIC on August 15th, 2024

The GIC team is hard at work, building our new Lighthouse design system. Every couple of weeks we’ll be checking in with a brief update on some of the more interesting aspects of our development efforts. Here’s what we’re working on now! Our web team has been building new components for Lighthouse, including: Let’s dig […]

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Designing a New Header & Footer

By GIC on August 05th, 2024

Previous iterations of the Delaware State Common Look and Feel (CLF) provided a consistent header and footer for state agency websites to use, such as the ones on this webpage. Our new version of the CLF is called Lighthouse. Lighthouse represents a comprehensive design system that will unify even more elements of state websites. This […]

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Introducing Lighthouse!

By Dana Rohrbough on July 08th, 2024

A New Vision For Delaware’s Common Look and Feel Guidelines We are excited to share a new vision for the State of Delaware’s digital experiences! It’s called Lighthouse, and it represents a comprehensive approach to the redesign of state agency websites. A quick reminder, the Government Information Center (GIC) was chartered in part to define […]

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Welcome to our Blog!

By Dana Rohrbough on June 27th, 2024

Hello! Welcome to an important conversation that we at the Delaware Government Information Center (GIC) are excited to have with members of all our great Delaware state agencies about their digital presence.  We’re hoping to connect state agencies to the GIC, and to one another through this blog. We want to engage agency leadership, PIOs, […]

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