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Over the Christmas Break work has started to improve the user interface to make navigation easier - and also to provide more flexibility in the way that new information is introduced and cross-linked within the site. Most of the changes involve improvements to the menus, the headings of pages, and some relocation of pages for internal maintenance reasons. This is done by introducing new "picture button blocks" and eventually all information pages will have a block of buttons in the top right hand corner of the page.
Because of the size of the site the changes have concentrated on the key menus and links. Other menus and pages will continue to work as before and no factual information has been removed. These menus and pages will be upgraded over the year, with priority being given to pages "of interest" - for instance ones relevant to a query or the introduction of new information. This will ensure that the menus and pages most likely to be visited will have the new button blocks first.
To give you some idea of the extent of the changes so far the New Years Eve run that put the initial changes in place generated a listing of 1550 change reports. So far only minor problems have been found as a result of the upgrade - but the process has identified many areas where changes would be beneficial over the coming year.
See below the fold for detailed reports on particular areas of change.
