KIRKLAND, Wash., April 13 /PRNewswire/ -- The City of Kirkland and Portent Interactive today launched explorekirkland.com -- a tourism resource site that provides a complete tour of all that the lakeside city has to offer. From fine dining to art galleries to luxurious accommodations, explorekirkland.com lets residents and visitors to plan their Kirkland excursion.
The site features fast-loading design that delivers more than150 pages of information about Kirkland attractions and events.
"We're extremely happy with the site," said Lily Eng, tourism coordinator for the City of Kirkland. "It provides a great chance for everyone -- whether they're coming to Kirkland for the first or fiftieth time -- to see what a great experience is waiting for them in our city."
Portent Interactive built the site with a wide audience in mind.
"The main challenge for Explore Kirkland was to build a site that looked good, but still loaded fast and be widely accessible," Ian Lurie, president of Portent Interactive, said. "With the help of the folks at Kirkland we've achieved a great balance."
The web site, designed for the broadest possible audience, complies with class 'A' conformance guidelines as published by the Web Accessibility Initiative, so that visitors using special assistive devices can learn what Kirkland has to offer.
The City of Kirkland, located on the east shore of Lake Washington, in northern King county, will celebrate its centennial in 2005. Just minutes away from Seattle, Kirkland offers captivating waterfront parks, excellent dining and wonderful shopping adventures. You can visit their new tourism site at http://www.explorekirkland.com/.
Portent Interactive is an Internet Marketing agency located in Seattle, Washington. Portent has helped organizations grow through intelligent use of the marketing, PR and communications on the Internet since 1995. Services include strategic consulting, site design and construction, search engine marketing and opt-in e-mail communications. You can learn more about Portent at http://www.portentinteractive.com/.
You can learn about web accessibility conformance requirements at http://www.w3.org/wai.
CONTACT: Ian Lurie, President of Portent Interactive, +1-206-575-3740, or ian@portentinteractive.com
Web site: http://www.portentinteractive.com/
Web site: http://www.w3.org/wai
Web site: http://www.explorekirkland.com/
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