Today’s the day … part 2

Well, that’s it.  We’ve updated the site.  And what a site it is.  We’ve included so many new features that it’s impossible to tell you all of them, but we’ll give it a try …

First of all, we’ve got the new blog, which you are viewing.  Like it?  We decided that, as much as we love Google’s Blogger software, it wasn’t exactly what we wanted.  Sure it was cool, but it looked nothing like our site, so people didn’t get the smooth transition they would expect.  Enter our new blogging software – WordPress.  It’s hugely powerful and it’s hugely cool.  So we’re looking forward to using it more.

Next, we have our calendar.  It was the most talked about feature in feedback sessions on the site.  We’ve done so much for this.  First we put the project calendars on the project information pages, then we added a help section to help you to find out more new and cool features in the calendar.  We’re also expanding the help feature to other cool things that we provide …

… including our new vCard feature.  Since we redesigned the site 2 years ago, we included a directory of all the staff, with contact email addresses for everyone.  Now, if you use Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird, Apple Mail or any major email software package, you can download a small (1Kb in size) virtual contact card, which you can import directly into your email software.  It includes many details to make sure that you never lose contact with our staff.

We’ve also made it easier for you to contact our staff directly, especially if you don’t use any email software.  Now, in the directory, you can click the staff member’s email address, and you can directly email the member of staff with our new contact form direct from the site.  It works with any member of staff who has an email address or a button.

We’ve got a couple of new features on the home page too.  A small snippet of all the stories that appear in the latest news section appear on the home page, as well as the people who fund us and a Featured Content pane, where you can find information about all the important stories happening at Wai Yin.

Throughout the site, we have included “Quick Links” – access to the most important information.  We can will change these links regularly, depending on the content that people access more regularly.  We have also changed the menu structure, and cross-linked our pages so that related links appear on the pages too.

That’s just a few of the changes we’ve made.  We hope that you enjoy the new site and that you use it well.  As always, keep us up to date with any changes that you would like to see.

Nathan