rapid development

After speaking with several local officials and others for several months. It was go, no-go time to develop a project site with the goal of increasing understanding of the Grand Rapids City budget. An annual budget of $473 Million that until this project had only been released to the public in printed form of 324 pages or a PDF.

a little background

Although trained and practiced in communication, marketing, and government affairs I love technology. Much of my experience has been as the cog between the general public and scientists or engineers; explaining the benefits of a piece of technology to the public or explaining the needs or desires of regular people to those developing the “next big thing.”

an explanation

This is undoubtly a minimum viable product and it is a struggle for me to release this as it is, but I am learning.

Jekyll supports the use of Markdown with inline HTML tags which makes it easier to quickly write posts with Jekyll, without having to worry too much about text formatting. A sample of the formatting follows.