Come fall, it will look much younger.

Knightdale officials at last week's Town Council meeting announced that knightdalenc.gov will look completely different by November.

The digital gateway to this 11,000-resident-strong Raleigh suburb will likely change it's stripes and look completely different.

"It's outdated, this will be a major overhaul (to produce) a fundamentally different website," Knightdale Mayor Russell Killen said. "Almost everything will change."

Former Town Manager Gary McConkey built the site in 1995 and town staff revised it in 2008.

In the 90's, Knightdale was one of the first Triangle towns with an online presence. But these days, website users have trouble finding what they need on the website, town officials say.

The site does not provide a search bar in which users can type keywords to look for what they need.

Some pages on the website, such as the Parks & Recreation page, bury useful information beneath a list of postings.

Users are required to scroll far down the page to find items like rental rates for the town-operated clubhouse.

Among other functions and capabilities, web designers must be able to:

Integrate the main website with other official online tools and social networking sites (Knightdale has a Facebook page),

Provide a site search function enabling users to type in keywords to search the site, and

Provide residents the ability to submit online service requests.

Town officials hope site users will be able to more easily interact with Town Hall.

Customers and residents will also be able to upload certain work-related documents and electronic signatures.

Knightdale officials will be accepting bid applications for the website design project until July 29.

Construction of the new website is expected to cost between $5,000 and $10,000.