22 August 2014 
Dominic Fryer, Managing Director
You may have noticed that the website looked a little different when you visited today, and that is because we have made a few design changes. To maximise the room available for content, we have removed the fixed page size on some of the longer pages and made the left hand menu slightly narrower. On the home page we have moved the login boxes to the top menu, so that we can fit our news and our tweets on the home page.
What we think will be really useful are two changes to the discussion boards. You can now ‘like’ a discussion board post (we are not copying Facebook, but it sort of works in the same way!) Previously you would have needed to post a comment to say that you liked a post or agreed with it – now you just need to click the ‘thumbs up’ icon.
You can also see who else has liked the post (again, not copying Facebook you understand).
The second change to the discussion board, is that you can now add attachments to a post. Previously you would have needed to upload the document to the resource library, then find the link, then paste the link into the discussion board. Now when you add a post, there is a DOCUMENTS tab where you can attach the files you want – takes a matter of seconds and the big benefit is that the discussion remains online so that everyone can see it. If someone puts their email address and says ‘I’ll email you a copy’, then the rest of the readership miss out.
More changes are coming in the next couple of weeks – the biggest changes are the new resource pages which will be divided up into topic areas and a global search tool.
If you have any suggestions or feedback on the webiste, then please let Dominic know.
