How do you like our new design?

The eagle-eyed among you may have noticed that over the past few days we’ve updated our webpage design. We did this for a number of reasons, but simply it was to ensure that anyone could easily find, navigate, enjoy and interact with our site, whether they were on a PC, Mac, tablet device or phone. For those of you who are technically inclined, especially if you use WordPress, you may be interested in the choice of theme for the design, which we’ve included in the comments below.

It’s also enabled us to significantly improve our newsletter experience, so now you can get all of our updates sent straight to your mailbox every week. If you haven’t signed up for our newsletter, it’s free and simple to do, just enter your first name and email address at the bottom of this article. Or if you’re on Facebook, you can sign in automatically by connecting with Facebook using just one click! How cool is that!

The new design also allows people to interact with us more directly. In 2014, our resolution was to interact more with our readers and clients, using our website and social networks. We want to develop our relationship with you from one which is based on producing and consuming information to one which is more about interaction. Let us know what you thought of our articles and videos using the comments, such as whether you liked them, if you found them helpful, or especially if you tried our suggestions and how that turned out. We want to hear from you what sort of articles you’d like to see, what you’re struggling with and how we can help you.

We’ll also be holding several competitions this coming year to give some great prizes to those people regularly using the site.

So all in all, we’re looking forward to making 2014 the year we start the conversation with you.

What do you think of the new site design? Let us know in the comments below, and please also sign up for our newsletter to stay informed. Thanks.

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Nick Skillicorn 14/01/2014 at 2:29 am - Reply

For those of you who want to know the details of the design change, it is based on a customised version of a WordPress theme called Hueman, which gives us a higher resolution, responsive layout. So it will look good on any device. The previous theme we had was called Atahualpha, and while it worked great for us up until now, it was an extremely old theme, based on tables rather than

containers. This made it nearly impossible to work with on non-fullscreen machines like tablets. Additionally, since the recent upgrade to WordPress 3.8, the previous theme was producing a very large number of Javascript errors, which were now preventing some of our plugins from functioning properly and causing all sorts of problems managing the site. The new theme fixes all of these issues, and I must say, looks pretty great doing it. All we’re waiting for now is our caching plugin, W3 Total Cache, to have its code updated to fix errors with the new WordPress version, so that we can reactivate it and hopefully speed up the site for you even more (the cache plugin is currently really messing up the CSS layout and JS, even when we turn off minify settings, so will have to wait on that one).

Hope you like it, let us know what you think.

How do you like our new design?

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