The City of Seattle web site includes over 60,000 documents and interactive applications with details on city departments, city services, information about neighborhood organizations and much more.

On our City home page at http://www.seattle.gov/, you will see 9 button bars along the upper left side of the page. These are each links to our portal pages, which are split into useful subjects such as Business and Development, Community and Human Services, and so forth. If you click on one of these subjects, you will be taken to that portal section's home page, where you will find links to all the City departments related to that subject, and sub-topics for each subject.

For instance, if you click on the Community and Human Services subject, you will be taken to a page that lists sub-topics such as News and Media, Technology, Employment, Volunteer and Donate, and so on. Clicking on these sub-topics takes you to pages specific to each one. So, if you click on the Volunteer and Donate link on the Community and Human Services page, you will find links for Donations, City Volunteer Opportunities, and Community Volunteering.

On the top of each of our portal pages is a long blue and purple graphic for Seattle.Gov, where you will also find buttons that will lead you to our Home Page, a list of City Services, a dropdown list of all City departments and offices, our City Staff Directory, a section About Seattle, a hot list of City Contacts, and our web Site Map.

Just below the purple and blue top graphic on our portal pages, there are even more button links to News, Events, Traffic, Weather, a Visiting Seattle page, an index of Maps on the City web site, a Get Involved page for citizen participation opportunities, and an Emergency Resource page.

You will see a Search box on the upper right of almost all City web pages. Use it if you cannot find the information you need, just as you would on Google. In fact, our City search engine is now powered by Google to provide excellent search results.

If you have more questions about using Seattle.Gov, contact the Citywide Web Team.