Colorful Options in Lighthouse

By GIC on April 30th, 2025

It can be a challenge to inject a little color into a government website! Now try to do it while maintaining a common look and feel across an entire state of diverse departments, agencies, and commissions. It’s enough to send a person searching for unexpectedly captivating entertainment to zen out on! One of the main […]

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A Call for Feedback Partners!

By GIC on April 23rd, 2025

We’d like to take a moment to renew our call for Lighthouse feedback partners! Lighthouse is now fully available to explore, and we invite developers and agency web editors to dig their hands into the sand and begin to envision their own new Lighthouse websites. This effort is about building a community to provide criticism, […]

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Conducting Your Own Competitive Analysis

By GIC on April 15th, 2025

The idea of redesigning an existing website can be daunting. It’s hard to know where to begin. Fortunately, the GIC is here to help Delaware agencies through the process of migrating to the new Lighthouse design system. Lighthouse takes care of a lot of design decisions, because its components have already been built with usability […]

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The Lighthouse Has Been Lit!

By GIC on March 31st, 2025

Calling all Developers and Designers to Help Us Test It! We’ve got exciting news to share regarding the development of our new design system Lighthouse: The bulk of our website code and content design is now live and available for everyone through our new Storybook site! From the perspective of open-source development, this essentially means […]

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Why We Updated Our Logo

By GIC on March 06th, 2025

Logos serve as the visual foundation of an organization, creating instant recognition, building brand identity, and hopefully making a strong first impression. When it comes to government seals and logos, the primary goals are fostering trust and familiarity. And while there is some benefit to continuity, there are other concerns to consider these days: Evolving […]

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Top Ten Things Agencies Can Do
to Prepare for Lighthouse

By GIC on February 20th, 2025

Many Delaware state agencies the GIC works with have been asking how they can prepare to have their sites eventually placed into Lighthouse. So, we thought it made sense to go through some of the steps we ask all agencies to consider in advance of moving over to the new website! The design parameters of […]

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Things Lighthouse WON’T Have

By GIC on February 06th, 2025

Intentional Decisions to Omit Problematic Features As we’ve rolled out our new Lighthouse website design system, we’ve been sharing lots of its cool new features through this blog. But we haven’t discussed the fact that there are also quite a few things that are currently being used on state websites that we’ve deliberately excluded from […]

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A Big Day for Delaware!

By GIC on January 22nd, 2025

New administration websites mark the debut of Lighthouse! Tuesday, January 21st was a big day for Delaware on a number of fronts, and the GIC was proud to play a big part in it all! The day marked the inauguration of Delaware’s 76th governor, Matt Meyer and its 27th lieutenant governor, Kyle Evans Gay. It […]

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Five Effective New Year’s Resolutions
for Agency Web Editors

By GIC on January 10th, 2025

One of the biggest challenges for any agency is dedicating the time to really make their website all it could be. Engaging a diverse audience and keeping up with digital trends can feel daunting, especially with limited budgets, limited resources, and oh yes, limited time! Besides, measuring success in our world isn’t just about clicks; […]

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‘Twas the Night Before WCAG!

By GIC on December 18th, 2024

‘Twas the holiday season and all ’round the spot Not a creature was crawling, not even a ‘bot! Agency staffers were snug in their beds but questions of access swirled round in their heads… “How shall we keep up with the changing constraints? Our intentions are good, but designers we ain’t!” When, from my computer, […]

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