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Our new-look home page is live

It's been a long journey but at last our our new-look home page is live (see my previous post).Hats off to our technical team who have worked hard and late to get us to where we are.

There are still various issues to resolve so don't think this is IT! Our techy guys are still beavering away in the background.

This is an exciting development for FWi. Not only have we redesigned, but we're moving the whole site onto a new platform which will allow us to be much more fluid in making changes to pages.

I'm hoping the rest of the site will follow within the next two weeks but this home page should give you a real sense of how the rest of the site will look shortly.

This is a coming of age for FWi and as our teaser ads say: "Agriculture is evolving".

Do please raise any issues/ provide feedback as it's your experiences with this new page that will help us iron out any problems.

Comments

Julian Gairdner said:

One thing users may have noticed is that the login/log off on the home page is a bit flaky. We are looking into this. For now it might mean you need to re log in on the rest of the site. Sorry for the inconvenience.

# January 8, 2009 5:45 PM [Delete]

He his-self said:

Still lots of problems moving round the site. It takes several clicks to get to the home page then several again to get back. Is it Google Chrome or are things still shaky? Like the new look very much tho.

# January 14, 2009 8:36 AM [Delete]

Julian Gairdner said:

Thanks He his-self. We are aware there are some page load performance problems which we are investigating. It's to do with component caching within the page. Google Chrome could be exacerbating the problem and I'd be interested to know if you notice any difference when using Internet Explorer or Firefox. Any feedback there would help us isolate issues.

Glad you like the look however, and we will iron out these other issues...

Julian

# January 14, 2009 9:28 AM [Delete]