DNS & Website Hosting & Management Services

TAC CIRA offers a reliable, up-to-date and economical solution for county websites, including both hosting and content management services. All websites are hosted through EZTask, which monitors website traffic and performance to ensure its guarantee of 100 percent uptime.

Standard Website Design

TAC CIRA recently upgraded its standard county website design, including enhanced display on mobile devices and updated style, all meeting ADA accessibility standards.

Following your website's migration to a TAC CIRA design, designated county staff members will have access to the user-friendly website editor to make updates, like posting treasurer's reports, staff contact information or commissioners court agendas and minutes.

TAC CIRA staff will conduct thorough training to ensure users are confident in their ability to keep your website up to date. See more training and relevant information here. Counties also have the option to purchase a website content management package; see information here.

The standard website design includes features like:

• User-friendly website editor
• Updated design, customizable background color and layout options
• Unlimited streaming media
• Photo galleries
• Event calendars
• Schedules
• Forms and surveys
• Integrated File Manager to post and manage your images, documents, presentations and more.
• Robust built-in search function

Please note that migrating content from another site to a TAC CIRA standard site will incur a cost of $50 per hour. Submit a request to TAC CIRA for a website application, price quote or for more information.

Custom Website Designs

Counties can choose to work with web developers to create a custom designed website that suits their needs.

Features for custom website designs include:

• Unlimited streaming media
• Secure blogging
• Photo galleries
• Robust built-in search function
• Social media integration
• Multi-level calendars
• Dynamic forms and surveys
• Profanity and SPAM filtering
• LDAP connectivity
• WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) web editor
• Integrated File Manager to post and manage your images, documents and more
• Search engine friendly

Following your website's migration to a custom TAC CIRA design, designated county staff members will receive training on the user-friendly website editor, giving them the ability to perform updates, like posting treasurer's reports, staff contact information or commissioners court agendas and minutes.

See more training and revelant information here. Counties also have the option to purchase a website content management package, see information here.

Rates for custom websites will vary upon design complexity and content migration. Contact TAC CIRA for a price quote or more information.

Website Content Management Services

For an additional fee, website content management services are available for counties that prefer to rely on TAC CIRA support for making content updates to their CIRA-hosted website.

Counties with this package will submit support tickets for posts like foreclosures, job opportunities and commissioners’ court agendas.

Submit a request to TAC CIRA for more information.

TAC CIRA DNS Hosting Services

TAC CIRA offers free DNS (domain name servers) hosting for counties' domains (example: co.yourcounty.tx.us) associated with county websites and email.

Contact us for more information on TAC CIRA's DNS hosting services.

See the TAC CIRA Membership page for more information on registering your county's domain name at no cost, which is required to obtain TAC CIRA website or email services.

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Certificate for County Websites – Recommended Security Practice

Show everyone who visits your county website that it is secure and legitimate with a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Certificate. Adding a SSL Certificate to your county website will establish a secure connection by encrypting all transmitted information – a new best practice for any website containing elections-related information.

You can now obtain a SSL Certificate through TAC CIRA for $150 per year.

Websites utilizing a SSL Certificate indicate that they have established a secure connection by displaying an icon, generally a security lock, in the web address bar. Alternatively, websites without a SSL Certificate will be marked as "not secure" by web browsers, and display information prompting web users to question the website’s security and legitimacy.

Example message displayed for website with a SSL certificate.		Example message displayed for a website without a SSL certificate.