Essay About Portal Page And Left Hand Side Of The Home Page

Firstgov.Com Versus Canada.Com
Essay title: Firstgov.Com Versus Canada.Com
FIRSTGOV.COM VERSUS CANADA.COM
I compared the United States FirstGov.Com portal page with our neighbor
Canada’s government portal page. I first looked at firstgov.com to get a feel for the
United States government page.
When you first open
an abundance of information. There are four main tabs set up as the main crux of the
web page and those are: For Citizens, For Businesses and Non Profit, For Federal
Employees, and Government to Government.
Right off the bat renewing a drivers license and passport application is what
jumped out to me personally. These were under the, “Citizens Get It Done” heading.
Also, under this heading were links that direct you to e-filing taxes, checking
immigration status, governmental benefits, government job application procedures,
changing your address, and even shopping at government auctions.
At mid page on the For Citizens tab was a section entitled, information by topics.
There are 14 main topics and when you click on one of them it sends you to another link
that has numerous other topics that a user can click on for almost any kind of information
you can imagine. For example: I clicked on Education and Jobs topic. Under the topic
is brief information on what you can find such as employment, training, careers, labor,
wages, workplace, online learning, schools, student and teacher resourcesThis led me to
a page that has well over 70 links to other topics. A few examples here are : US Dept of
Labor, US Dept of Education, College Search, Disability Information, Career Choices,
Labor Relations, and many more subjects to look up. Each of these links takes you to
other pages full of related information with more links to follow.
What I found interesting also was you can read this web site in almost any
language. I clicked on Spanish and the entire web page converted to Spanish. Also on
the left hand side of the home page is a small index with links entitled: A-Z agency
index, Federal Executive, Federal Legislature, Federal Judicial, Cross agency portals,
state government, local government, and tribunal government. I chose to look at Federal
Legislature and that takes to a page where you can find out information on the US Senate,
US House of Representative, and agencies that support Congress. An abundance of
information in all areas in the index.
When you go to Canada’s web site,
first have to choose English or French and then it takes you to the opening page in the
language you select. The opening page has 3 main tabs entitled: Canadians