After nearly three years of work and almost $100,000, the City of Nanaimo's new website is live.

The brand new nanaimo.ca is designed to be more mobile-friendly, as well as easier and faster to navigate. It replaces a City website which launched in 2008 and is the culmination of work that began in September 2014.

Ross Collicutt, senior applications analyst with the City, said having an easy-to-use website is absolutely essential, noting staff use it just as much as citizens.

"We get millions of hits on the site every year for people looking for information they need for work, travel, personal, home and property," Collicutt said. "If the site as we have it now is going to save people a few minutes here and there finding the information they need, that's going to add up to a lot of time over the course of the year."

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