24 hours in…

So, the new site design has been live for 24 hours already. The design (which includes all these new features), was rolled out across our ‘normal’ web pages, our forms system, our site search and a range of databases.

We’ve just finished added the social bookmarking links, which will make it easier for you to share services and information.

(As an aside – we are going to be including Twitter in the near future. This was all ready to go, but Twitter made changes to their link sharing format in the API, which has caused some last minute problems. UPDATE – Twitter button has been fixed and added back in.)

We’ve worked through the site, just making sure everything’s working and making sense. We’ve been checking links and adding links and services information to the ‘You may also be interested in’ and ‘Useful links’ boxes.

But please let us know if you spot any problems. The scale of the site means that some issues will have cropped up, and we want to know about them as soon as possible so we can fix them.

It’s worth remembering that this really is only part of the story – albeit a very large and important part. We will be following this up with a few more ‘launches’ in the next couple of weeks and months:

• News site, which promised to open up our news through much more granular RSS feeds;
• Corporate website, focusing on the working of the organisation;
• Staff, Partners and Practitioners website, containing all of the information for those groups;
• The Zone, aimed at children and young people

But for now, thank you for your support, and please keep the feedback coming.