12/01/00 - ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AFPN) -- Every day, 300 to 500 users tap into the Military Traffic Management Command's personal property Web pages. This Internet audience includes service members, installation travel offices and household goods moving companies from around the world.
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Since its inception in 1996, the Web site has provided essential information on MTMC's personal property program. MTMC moves an average of 646,000 service members a year.
A totally redesigned Web site was introduced Nov. 24. Users who go to the Web site, http://www.mtmc.army.mil, and click on "Transportation Services" will find an entirely different personal property section.
"We had been putting changes on it for years," said Hank Spieler, chief of the domestic and international rates section. "We decided on a total redesign."
Staying true to a reinvention design, transportation assistant Cliff Mechalske started with a blank screen.
"I wanted it easier to use and more professional in its look," Mechalske said. "It is a new look, a new feel."
One of the biggest changes was on the site's first page. A user on the old site had to scroll down through dozens of listings in a fact-finding effort. No longer. The new site has just nine listings. Related categories are then broken down under such categories as Latest Updates, Domestic Advisory, International Advisory and Carrier Approvals.
"We are in an interactive mode," Spieler said. "All the information that (users) formerly had to research by paper, volumes of paper, is now on the Web." (Courtesy of Military Traffic Management Command Public Affairs)